[REDNET.CN] Olympic Champion Long Qingquan Appearing at Hunan University of Commerce and Fighting Spirit Pursued by Freshmen after the 95s

2016-11-23

REDNET.CN Changsha news on September 21 (Correspondent He Qing, Pi Ruochen, Journalist of Moment News Liu Yibin) On the evening of September 20, the Olympic champion Long Qingquan appeared at the gym of Hunan University of Commerce and got together with over 2,000 freshmen in 2016 and told his experience of taking the crown at Rio Olympic Games.

At about 7:00 p.m. of the same evening, under grand introduction by Tang Yayang, secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan University of Commerce, Long Qingquan wearing the clothes for receiving awards at Rio Olympic Games went to the platform in the cheers of joy after going through camouflage clothing matrix formed by freshmen from the gym background. At this moment, Tang Yayang stepped forward to hug the weightlifting champion, causing cheers from audiences on the scene.

"Hello, everyone, I'm Long Qingquan". And Long Qingquan's brief introduction brought about warm applause. "I'm glad to come to Hunan University of Commerce to talk with all of you, and I hope to share some of my experience to encourage you." He said. When looking back to Rio Olympic Games, Long Qingquan said that breaking a world record at Rio Olympic Games was his goal, and he said: "I set different goals at each different stage and I will encourage myself to realize it", and He encouraged freshmen to set their goals and continuously fight for it.

Freshmen also asked Long Qingquan some confused questions. One freshman asked: "Hello, Long Qingquan, I know you have succeeded for many times, but also experienced some hard time, and I want to know how you adjust yourself and face such rise and fall?"

Long Qingquan said": "Everyone knows that I have experienced a hard time for several years, I didn't participate in London Olympic Games with silence for a long time. But during such time, I haven't given up, I went to colleges and universities for learning and enriching myself, I want to thank such experiences enriching my life outside the competition terrain and bringing a different mental state to me. And meanwhile I met my wife and we have two children now who give lots of power to me and drive me to move ahead."

The shy smile appeared on the face of the world champion when he mentioned his wife and children. He said: "Ups and downs are the normalcy; the most important thing is to adjust your own psychology. You shall keep unbiased in the future learning and life, and shall dare to struggle and face the difficulty when failure arises."

He emphasized the struggle and mental state instead of hardship behind success. During the speech and questioning for 30 minutes, Long Qingquan threw out valuable suggestions for freshmen, and all students carefully listened to him and applause and laughter broke out from time to time.

Finally, Long Qingquan stepped down the platform and took photos with students for commemoration and accepted hand-painted works made by student representative for him.