China immigrant champion.

On April 7th, 2004, a healthy baby boy was born with crying in a hospital in Manchester, a city in the northwest of England.

Unlike the doctors and nurses with blond hair and blue eyes around, this baby boy has black fetal hair and is completely a typical oriental child.

The child's mother is from China. She is the deputy general manager of a tulip advertising media company, and acts like a strong woman in business.

But she has another identity, which has spread all over China, especially the identity that China National Men's Swimming Team has been chasing for 20 years: Zhuang Yong, the first swimming Olympic champion in China.

After Zhuang Yong became famous, he didn't emigrate to any country. Why did she give birth to her son in England?

1On July 25th, 992, it was sunny in Barcelona, Spain. It was a sunny summer day and the first day of the 25th Olympic Games held here.

Zhuang Yong, then 20, wore a red coat and waved to the audience. After a simple warm-up exercise, he walked slowly to the pool.

At this time, a magical idea suddenly flashed through her mind: will her performance in the upcoming women's freestyle 100 meter competition be a gold medal?

Speaking of which, it is the world record holder, American star jenniferbeth thompson, who is separated by his own track.

In the just-concluded preliminaries, Thompson ranked first, setting an Olympic record in 54.69 seconds. Zhuang Yong ranked fifth in the preliminaries by more than 1 sec.

100m women's freestyle is not only the first event of China swimming team, but also the first event of the entire China Olympic delegation.

Zhuang Yong's previous best time was only 55.60 seconds. Since China returned to the Olympic Games, the whole swimming event has not won a gold medal. Before the game, the coach's hope for her was probably satisfied with a silver medal.

How effective can Zhuang Yong's sixth sense be?

With an order, Zhuang Yong, as slim as a fish, jumped into the water. Soon, the China audience standing in front of the TV screen was pleasantly surprised to find that Zhuang Yong and Thompson were neck and neck, with obvious advantages over other players.

As the finish line approaches, Zhuang Yong has locked in at least one silver medal, and the gap between her and Thompson is almost indistinguishable to the naked eye.

When they reached the finish line, Zhuang Yong and Thompson both touched the wall and raised their hands at the same time. Who will win the championship is still unknown. The dream of China Swimming Team can only be verified on the huge electronic screen of the stadium.

When this name was printed, the mood of all China people standing in front of the TV set reached its climax: Zhuang Yong.

This precious gold medal is not only China's first gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games, but also the first gold medal of the entire China swimming team in the history of the Olympic Games.

In the next 20 years, this gold medal has been an honor that the men's swimming team can't catch up with. It was not until 20 12 London Olympic Games that Sun Yang achieved a historic breakthrough.

Zhuang Yong's magical premonition before the game seems to be fate, because besides Zhuang Yong, there are "golden flowers" such as "Yang" in this Olympic Games. These good sisters also won gold medals in their respective events, but due to the schedule, their gold medals were half an hour later than those of Zhuang Yong.

1 year later, in the 7th National Games, Zhuang Yong won one gold, one silver and one bronze again in the fierce battle with his champion teammates, which shows that his state has not declined.

People expect Zhuang Yong, Yang, Wang Xiaohong, the "five golden flowers", to create the golden age of women's swimming in China.

Who knows, just when everyone didn't expect it, Zhuang Yong suddenly announced his retirement from the national team and left the field completely.

Zhuang Yong's age advantage is very obvious. She was born in August 1972, and was less than 20 years old when she participated in this Olympic Games.

If you work hard, maybe next year's Atlanta Olympic Games or even eight years later's Sydney Olympic Games, people will see her on the highest podium again.

What caused this famous athlete to suddenly turn around beautifully?

In fact, Zhuang Yong decided to retire and change careers, which can be said to be partly because swimming has brought her great honor.

Before the Olympic Games, Zhuang Yong had won the 50m freestyle championship in the World Swimming Championships, won several Asian Games titles and broke the Asian record.

Counting the Olympic Games and the National Games, it can be said that a female swimmer in China has won gold medals in all the events she can participate in, and she has no regrets in her swimming career.

At this point, Zhuang Yong's accumulated pain in harsh training forced her to start thinking about what kind of identity she should live in when she is old and can't swim anymore.

Today, Zhuang Yong has a great reputation, but in China in the early 1990s, due to the backward domestic economic level, this reputation could not bring more benefits except the honorary titles such as "excellent athlete since the 45th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China" and "March 8th Red Flag Bearer".

So Zhuang Yong decided to travel abroad.

This was a common choice at that time. In China and Zhuang Yong, many people have taken a similar path. For example, among the five golden flowers, lin li and Wang Xiaohong went to the United States to work hard. Wang Xiaohong studied computer courses in American universities, and later joined the internationally renowned company Lucent as an engineer.

Zhuang Yong's first step didn't go that far. She came to Hongkong, the main window of China's foreign exchange at that time.

At that time, Hongkong was synonymous with the trend and fashion in China. Hong Kong film and television dramas such as "Shanghai Beach" and "Legend of the Condor Heroes" are always deserted, so Zhuang Yong will naturally not miss it.

The first step to Hong Kong, Zhuang Yong wants to join the entertainment circle and realize her dream of becoming a star.

It's a pity that the fame brought from the mainland is useless if you change your environment and change your job. She can only take some small roles in movies, and no one cares. The little girl who only had a few shots flashed by actually stood in Barcelona two years ago and lifted the high-profile trophy.

It is the same for everyone to run away from home in pursuit of their dreams, not because Zhuang Yong's Olympic champion status is different. Seeing that the road of entertainment circle is getting narrower and narrower, Zhuang Yong has to find another way to make a living again.

Olympic champions still bring good swimming resources. 1995, Phoenix Satellite TV in Hong Kong hired her as a commentator and music presenter in swimming competition, and Zhuang Yong has a brand-new source of income.

During his stay in Hongkong, Zhuang Yong married a host named Liu Yong, who was a professional host in the field of sports, including the Asian Games, the Olympic Games, the swimming championships and other events that Zhuang Yong had struggled for.

Unfortunately, this marriage did not go far because of the same interests. After their marriage, they completely left China and moved to Singapore, which made Zhuang Yong feel a little overwhelmed.

Family conflicts quickly escalated to irreconcilable levels, and finally the wise two chose to break up.

However, Zhuang Yong's long overseas trip was not without gain. Instead, she lost her corner and harvested mulberry trees, which laid the biggest foundation for her to complete the real transformation of her life.

During her tenure at Phoenix TV, Zhuang Yong and a woman named Wang Min became good girlfriends.

Wang Min is also a strong Shanghai woman wandering in Hong Kong. Before that, she and Zhuang Yong were even neighbors in the same community. It is "meeting an old friend in another country" that their close relationship completely cured Zhuang Yong's emotional failure.

In Wang Min's view, Zhuang Yong's going to Hong Kong, a small place, has a brilliant name in the Mainland, which is a complete waste of immeasurable commercial value.

All the achievements of Zhuang Yong are given by the motherland. If she really wants to realize her greater ideal, she can only return to her hometown Shanghai, which is already at the starting point of economic take-off.

From 65438 to 0998, Wang Min invited Zhuang Yong to set up Tulip Media Company in Shanghai, whose main business was outdoor advertising.

Outdoor advertisements in the most famous places in Shanghai and even the whole of Shanghai, such as Pudong Airport, Hongqiao Airport and Xujiahui, are their business scope.

Wang Min has a good eye for business. Ordinary companies may not know how much extra energy it takes to win a customer in a prime location in Shanghai, but when Zhuang Yong, the pride of Shanghai and the first gold medal in Olympic swimming, faces each other, everything will be solved.

Many companies knew that Zhuang Yong was an Olympic champion as soon as she heard her name, and rarely refused her request for an on-site interview.

While listening to Wang Min's instructions, he groped for it himself and communicated with Olympic champions such as Li Ning and Li who entered Shanghai earlier. Zhuang Yong took out the hard work of learning to swim that year, took every negotiation project he took over seriously, and finally succeeded in letting customers rest assured to sign the contract and pay off the payment.

In just five years, the staff of Tulip Media has grown to fifty or sixty, and the company has also published two magazines, Caijing Weekly and White-collar Weekly.

Behind this is the bitterness of two female girlfriends facing countless setbacks and problems, even crying together in the most difficult time.

Fortunately, after the devil's swimming training, these setbacks made Zhuang Yong feel tired at most. Then she wiped her tears and discussed with Wang Min how to solve the problem.

In 2003, Zhuang Yong ushered in the two biggest happy events in life after the Olympic Games.

The first thing is that she met Shen. Shen Jian is very strong. She is 8 years old and a famous swimmer in Shanghai. She is as good at freestyle as Zhuang Yong, and has won many China and Asian championships, ranking among the top ten in the world.

Coincidentally, Shen was Zhuang Yong's teammate in the national team, but later he chose the University of Tsukuba as his study destination after retiring, so he missed the fate with Zhuang Yong for several years.

Fortunately, there is a saying that "what belongs to you will come sooner or later". After Shen returned to Shanghai, he also had his own swimming club, but he never interfered with his wife's business in an advertising company. Both of them are busy with their own careers, and Zhuang Yong is satisfied with her husband's understanding.

The steady Shen always indulges his wife in his life, because in his view, "the work of outdoor advertising is particularly tiring and her body needs special maintenance. I hope she can rest more."

But my husband's intentions are good, and Zhuang Yong's career is on the right track. How can he rest easily?

After five years of experience, Zhuang Yong has learned to identify business opportunities, and there is a great opportunity waiting for her: LED advertising.

The LED seems to have only three letters. In fact, the cost of a screen needs 30 million yuan, even enough to start several companies.

Jiang Nanchun, a media tycoon, wanted to enter LED advertising, but she couldn't make up her mind in the face of high cost. Can Zhuang Yong, a woman who became a monk in the middle of the sports meeting, surpass her media predecessors?

Zhuang Yong is very confident. She has seen the world. She knows that there are several huge LED electronic screens in Times Square in new york, USA, and the sales of those screens are at least ten times that of China.

The prospect of Shanghai will not be worse than that of new york. How can you not make an LED?

After repeated and careful investigation and discussion, Zhuang Yong and Wang Min, with a stroke of a pen, hired the whole team to make LED screens for Times Square in new york, determined to become the largest LED media operator in China.

Two strong women with keen eyes have determined that LED will be the general direction of advertising in the future, and the key advertising spots in several key cities across the country will become valuable and worthless gold resources.

As long as the landmark building in the core business district is guaranteed to be the LED screen of tulip, tulip will become the rule maker of the game.

Zhuang Yong, who has grown up rapidly in the business world, is not what she used to be. Her relationship with Wang Min became inseparable partners, so her position in the company also became vice chairman and vice president.

However, Zhuang Yong still didn't finish her Olympic champion bonus, and then another chance really made her realize how much her efforts in swimming and winning the Olympic Games had influenced her life.

In 2007, all kinds of big projects were in full swing in every corner of Beijing. As we all know, this is for the Beijing Summer Olympics to be held next year.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime event and a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing machine. For the Olympic Games, many unprecedented projects have been given the green light, only to see who has the ability to sign contracts from the Beijing government.

Zhuang Yong has targeted a big customer, Beijing Radio and Television Media Group, and the other party needs to lay out 10 to 15 LED color large screens in Beijing. In other words, this list is enough to make Zhuang Yong's worth pass the threshold of "100 million".

Beijing Radio and Television Station learned that Olympic champions participated in Olympic events, and the negotiations between the two sides went smoothly. It took only 17 days for Zhuang Yong to return to Shanghai with the contract.

Zhuang Yong is not only happy to win the big ticket, she always remembers that all her luck came from the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992, but also from the cultivation of herself by the country.

Therefore, I do my best for the Beijing Olympic Games and work with extra honor and pride.

Whether in the swimming pool or on land, she will win glory for her country.

Zhuang Yong and Shen traveled abroad for business all the year round, and their marriage certificates were also obtained in the United States, so it is not surprising that their son was born in Britain.

Later, Zhuang Yong gave birth to a daughter in England. According to local laws, both the brother and sister have British nationality.

Having been to so many countries in the world, Zhuang Yong's most unforgettable thing is her dream country-Spain.

Today, Zhuang Yong, who is worth more than 100 million yuan, is no longer the little girl who envies Spanish high-end buildings by the swimming pool in Barcelona, wearing simple sportswear.

She bought a villa and a winery in the most prosperous province of Valencia, Spain, and returned here with her family for vacation and leisure every three to five times.

Of course, in today's epidemic, the warmest and safest place for a family is in their hometown of Shanghai.

Zhuang Yong has recalled her children to China. The family lives in a four-story villa and enjoys a happy and carefree life with their two children.

According to Chinese laws, children of Zhuang Yong can change their nationality back to China when they reach adulthood. I hope they will make this choice.