When it comes to Yu Feifei's name, almost everyone in China knows it.
Yu Feifei started learning to swim at the age of six, and was able to compete with adult athletes at the age of ten. She also won the 50-meter freestyle championship at the Provincial Games. She entered the national team at the age of twelve and won a series of national championships in the same year. The following year, she won two gold medals at the Asian Games and two silver medals at the World Swimming Championships. She was hailed as a "genius girl" in swimming at the time.
At the age of fourteen, Yu Feifei won the first world championship in her life, the 200-meter individual medley world championship, and became the youngest swimming world champion in history. Two years later, at the Olympic Games, Yu Feifei In the 400-meter individual medley event, she won the Olympic championship with a world-record-breaking result. In the following 200-meter individual medley event, Yu Feifei also won the championship with an Olympic-record-breaking result. And won the Laureus Sports Award for Best Newcomer the following year.
Becoming the world champion at the age of fourteen and breaking the world record at the age of sixteen, Yu Feifei's sports career is full of legend. Yu Feifei herself is considered to be the hope of the Chinese swimming community in the next ten years.
However, in the past two years, Yu Feifei's performance has been very poor, or it can be said that her condition has declined significantly. At last year's Swimming World Cup, she only finished seventh in the 400-meter medley, her best event. In domestic competitions, her best result was only third place.
Regarding the decline in Yu Feifei's performance, the national team said that Yu Feifei had an accidental sprain, leaving a broken bone in her ankle, which often caused a dull pain, thus affecting Yu Feifei's training and competition status.
Dai Li had realized that the so-called "female ghost" he saw in the training room was probably Yu Feifei, but Dai Li could not figure out why Yu Feifei was crying alone in the dark training room.
Dai Li emboldened himself, then returned to the experimental building and walked towards the training room. But this time, as soon as he walked up to the third floor, he saw that the lights in the training room had been turned on.
Li Dai walked on tiptoes, approached the door of the training room, and then cautiously stretched his head to look inside.
"I'm sorry, I scared you just now." A voice sounded, and Dai Li looked along the voice, and sure enough he saw Yu Feifei.
"Yu Feifei, it's really Yu Feifei. She looks fatter than on TV, probably because her winter clothes are thicker. This is the world champion. It's the first time I've seen a real person!" Dai Li couldn't help but feel a little excited. He even wanted to get up and take a photo with Yu Feifei. However, thinking that Yu Feifei came to the university for confidential training, Li Dai gave up the idea.
Dai Li walked into the training room and found that there was really only Yu Feifei in the training room. Thinking of his cowardly look just now, Dai Li couldn't help but smile awkwardly, and then said: "Hello, I am Dai Li. The assistant coach of the National Sports University, I happen to be on duty today. Teacher Qian suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized. I came to replace him. I didn't know you were here just now, and there were no lights on here, so I thought there was no one here."
Yu Feifei looked at this young man who was a few years older than him with curiosity. If Li Dai didn't introduce himself, Yu Feifei might have thought that Li Dai was still a college student.
Dai Li was also looking at Yu Feifei. Compared with the immature little girl at the Olympics a few years ago, Yu Feifei had indeed grown up and had some acne on her face. Yu Feifei's eyes were red and she looked like I just cried.
"Did you cry just now?" Dai Li asked tentatively.
"No, I didn't cry." Yu Feifei denied it.
"Did you accidentally get injured during training? Do you want to see a doctor?" Li Dai then asked. He was worried that Yu Feifei was injured due to training.
After all, Yu Feifei is the world champion. If she gets injured during training here, Dai Li will definitely be involved. Dai Li finally found such a job, but he didn't want to lose his job because of this kind of thing.
"I'm fine, not injured." Yu Feifei replied immediately.
"Is it an old injury? Do you want to see a doctor?" Li Dai then asked. He estimated that if Yu Feifei's old injury relapsed here, he would have to walk around without food. After all, he was just a hired coach. If the school said he should be fired, he would be fired.
Yu Feifei was a little angry after hearing this. Her eyes widened and her voice became much more urgent: "Are you really looking forward to me getting hurt?"
"I didn't, really not." Li Dai felt something was wrong in the atmosphere. He wanted to liven up the atmosphere, so he said, "You are the world champion, and people all over the country hope that you will be fat and healthy."
However, what Li Dai didn't expect was that when she heard the words "Baibai, Fatty", Yu Feifei suddenly covered her face and cried bitterly without any warning.
"Woooooo... I know I'm fat, I know I've gained 14 pounds in a year, wuwu... I've been working very hard to lose weight, I do high-intensity exercise every day, I don't dare to eat, wuwu... But I haven’t lost weight, what can I do? Wuwuwu... I don’t want to be kicked out of the national team, Wuwu... I also imagine that I was like before, I also want to win another world championship and break the world record again... Wuwu... "Yu Feifei's mood seemed to have suddenly collapsed in half, and she was crying harder and harder.
Dai Li was suddenly at a loss. He didn't expect that a world champion would cry so hard like a wronged child.
"Gained 14 pounds? Being kicked out of the national team?" Li Dai connected Yu Feifei's words and roughly guessed what happened.
Athletes must strictly control their weight, especially for swimming, where athletes need to overcome the resistance of the water and increase their own buoyancy. An increase of 14 pounds in weight will be disastrous for swimmers. The increase in body volume caused by the increase in weight will increase the resistance encountered by athletes in the water; at the same time, increased weight will reduce the buoyancy of the athletes themselves, making the athletes During the competition, more energy is spent to keep oneself afloat, and correspondingly less energy is used to move forward.
"There were reports in the news before that Yu Feifei's performance dropped due to the impact of injuries. Now it seems that things are not as what the news said. The real reason for Yu Feifei's performance decline is a substantial increase in weight. The Association should be hiding something in this regard. What about being kicked out of the national team? Is it really that serious?"
Dai Li's thoughts were spinning, and the next moment he suddenly remembered that Yu Feifei's situation was not suitable for "weight loss exercises"!