1998 17-year-old gymnast Sang Lan was paralyzed in the competition. How is she now?

The schedule of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games has already passed halfway, and China athletes have made gratifying achievements through their efforts. Behind these honorary medals are the persistence and difficulty of athletes for many years.

Once athletes stand on the field and represent the whole country, their sense of mission does not allow them to relax for a moment, but the reality is always cruel. Athletes are often injured by accidents on the field, especially competitive athletes.

Because they have to do a lot of difficult movements, injuries are inevitable, some can be made up in time, and some can be cured by time, but for Sang Lan,

1The accident that happened in July, 1998 left her with lifelong regret, which not only ruined her brilliant career, but also made her spend the rest of her life with injuries.

Sang Lan, who was in a wheelchair from 65438 to 0998, had an unrepeatable life experience. It's been 23 years now. How's Sang Lan? Was the injury an accident or did it hide other stories?

0 1, unexpectedly, a new star in Ran Ran suddenly fell.

1July 2, 9981I believe it is a day that many people can't forget. At that time, Sang Lannian was only 17 years old and was representing China in the 4th Goodwill Games. On this day, Sang Lan, like other athletes, warmed up before the match at Long Island Gymnasium in new york to prepare for the official competition a few days later.

Before taking part in this competition, Sang Lan won the national vault championship, and her talent was awe-inspiring. If nothing happens, she will also be the ultimate champion of vault in this competition.

But the accident still happened. At about 6 pm, after the Romanian player in front finished the action, Sang Lan was ready to continue his third practice, first the run-up action, then the jump, and then briefly vacated in the air for a few seconds. ...

Sang Lan, who should have landed on his feet, touched his head and neck first. As a result, she could not move and fell into a coma.

After Sang Lan was injured, Sang Lan's coach and staff immediately sent her to a nearby hospital for treatment. After the doctor's examination and diagnosis, Sang Lan suffered multiple fractures in the upper body, the most serious of which was a cervical fracture, which directly led to her paraplegia below the chest. This diagnosis means that Sang Lan can never stand up again and can only spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

Just as people around felt sorry for what happened to Sang Lan, Sang Lan, who had been in a coma, finally woke up. When Sang Lan met Zhao Yuxin, the leader of the China Gymnastics Team, the first thing he said after being injured was: When can I practice? This heartfelt question made Zhao Yuxin and other China members in the ward burst into tears instantly.

But they know that at this time, no amount of comfort is enough. For Sang Lan, what she needs most is time to heal.

Under the arrangement of the Gymnastics Association, Sang Lan temporarily stayed in the United States to continue his treatment and recuperation, and all expenses were borne by the Association. In order to facilitate life in Sang Lan, American overseas Chinese Liu Guosheng and Xie Xiaohong became Sang Lan's guardians in the United States.

Liu Guosheng and Xie Xiaohong are not only successful businessmen with strong financial resources, but also representatives of members of the Gymnastics Association. Out of sympathy for Sang Lan, they accepted the appointment of the Association to take care of Sang Lan's life in the United States.

10 months later, Sang Lan is ready to leave for home. Before leaving, she said goodbye to Liu Guosheng and Xie Xiaohong affectionately and thanked them for all they had done for themselves.

At this time, no one expected that Sang Lan would personally take the Liu Guosheng couple and their son to court after 13.

Before returning home, Sang Lan did another thing, which can be understood as a prelude to the later "claim incident". At that time, Ning Xin, the sports host of CCTV, happened to be on a business trip in the United States. With Sang Lan's permission, rebeccalu gave a special interview to Sang Lan.

In this interview, Sang Lan refuted the previous theory of accidental injury for the first time, saying that the reason for his injury was the improper behavior of Romanian gymnastics coach Beru.

At that time, when she accelerated the take-off, she saw Bayrou trying to take back the landing pad. This behavior directly interfered with her, causing her to jump out and eventually fall to the ground.

At that time, after the publication of this interview, it attracted a period of attention, but it was quickly diluted by other news.

Sang Lan, who returned to China, has become a strong and optimistic "smiling angel" and a big star in sports. Almost every two days, I can see reports about her experiences on TV, all of which are praises to Sang Lan. To outsiders, her life doesn't seem to be much worse.

02. Sang Lan, the smiling angel, was blasted, and the person who "saved" her came.

On 1999, Sang Lan's former teammate Mo Huilan visited her home, and at the same time, he also brought a person, that person is Jian Huang.

Jian Huang used to be a fencer of Beijing team and a half colleague of Sang Lan. 1997 After his official retirement, he turned to be a sports agent.

Mo Huilan took Jian Huang to meet Sang Lan in order to introduce Jian Huang to her and promote their cooperation.

Before meeting Sang Lan, Jian Huang imagined her situation. She is already a big star and should be rich and carefree. As a result, when she returned to her home in Sang Lan, Jian Huang found that everything was far from her imagination.

It turns out that Sang Lan only got 400,000 yuan of state compensation and 2,200 yuan of monthly salary subsidy after returning to China, which is a drop in the bucket for Sang Lan who needs long-term rehabilitation treatment.

In order to save money, regardless of the risk of infection in the body, Sang Lan cleaned the disposable catheter and used it repeatedly. Moreover, in order to reduce the cost of water, Sang Lan will not let the nanny pour out the water for washing clothes, but keep it for flushing the toilet. ...

After seeing Sang Lan's poor life, Jian Huang's heart was greatly touched. He decided to be Sang Lan's agent to help her take on more work and improve her life.

In this way, from 2000, Jian Huang began to serve as Sang Lan's agent to help her handle the brokerage business. In the next year or so, Sang Lan's income did increase a lot, but this cooperation ended after Sang Lan entered Peking University for further study.

In 2002, Sang Lan went to Peking University to study and Jian Huang went to Shenzhen to develop her career. Their contact gradually decreased and they began to be unfamiliar.

In 2006, Jian Huang, who failed to start a business in Shenzhen, returned to Beijing. He took the initiative to call Sang Lan, and then they met.

This meeting has changed many things. Jian Huang once again returned to Sang Lan to continue to be her agent. At the same time, their feelings began to change a little, at least there was an ambiguous feeling in it.

In 2008, the name of Sang Lan was closely linked with the Beijing Olympic Games. She became an Olympic torchbearer and a special correspondent appointed by the government, and participated in and witnessed the Beijing Olympic Games.

During that time, Sang Lan always had a bright smile on his face, as if he had been a gymnast again.

In 2009, Jian Huang divorced his wife because of their long-term separation. Jian Huang has been to Beijing, and the other has been to Shenzhen.

On September 20 10, it was reported that Sang Lan was preparing a huge overseas claim lawsuit, and at the same time, her relationship with Jian Huang was exposed.

When the reporter asked Jian Huang for proof, he got a "Tai Chi" response. He neither admitted nor denied it, and advised reporters to pay more attention to the claim lawsuit.

03, overseas claims lawsuit started, and Sang Lan became the focus of the topic.

20 1 1 In April, after nearly a year of preparation, Sang Lan set up a team of lawyers in the United States. At the same time, she brought five companies and three individuals to court, namely time warner Inc. Company, American Gymnastics Association, two insurance agencies under TIG, RIVERSTONE Insurance Agency, Liu Guosheng and Xie Xiaohong, founders of Goodwill Games.

There are as many as 18 charges against these people, and the amount of each claim is1000 million US dollars, which is1800 million US dollars.

What surprised the outside world most was Sang Lan's accusation against Mr. and Mrs. Liu Guosheng. Sang Lan's reasons for prosecution are poor guardianship, invasion of privacy and unjust enrichment.

In July of the same year, accompanied by Jian Huang, Sang Lan went to NYPD to report that Liu Guosheng and his son had sexually assaulted her. According to Sang Lan's own statement, Liu Guosheng's son had assaulted her from behind while Sang Lan was sleeping, but Sang Lan was still young at that time and didn't know what infringement was, so he didn't report it.

However, two weeks later, new york police rejected Sang Lan's request to file a case on the grounds of "suspicious details".

Faced with Sang Lan's accusation, Mr. and Mrs. Liu Guosheng fought back. They denounced Sang Lan's behavior through the media, and said that the purpose of Sang Lan's fabricated sexual assault case was to obtain an American visa, because according to American law at that time, victims could apply for a special visa or even "political asylum", and if they met the requirements, they could get an American green card, which was equivalent to taking a super shortcut to rapid immigration.

After the claim broke out completely, the views of the outside world on Sang Lan changed greatly. Compared with the simple and optimistic "smiling angel" in the past, some people began to think that Sang Lan was a mercenary and did whatever it took to get money. Others attributed Sang Lan's transformation to Jian Huang, and thought that Jian Huang was leading this huge claim, and Sang Lan was only his "pawn".

After months of tug-of-war, Sang Lan and Jian Huang behind her became temporary winners.

The American Gymnastics Association and three insurance agencies agreed to Sang Lan's out-of-court settlement conditions, willing to admit that her injury was not caused by personal reasons, and the insurance agencies agreed to pay100,000 US dollars and increase China's medical expenses.

After receiving the compensation, Sang Lan withdrew the charges against Mr. and Mrs. Liu Guosheng, but this did not calm the anger of the other party. The other party called Sang Lan many times through the media, asking her to disclose the truth, but she didn't get a reply.

04, Sang Lan was promoted to mother, and a "public opinion storm" directed at the truth of that year came quietly.

August 20 13, Sang Lan and Jian Huang were formally engaged. At the end of the same year, they held a wedding in Beijing. Sang Lan had been pregnant for several months. She refused to listen to the doctor's advice and insisted on getting pregnant and having children. As her husband, Jian Huang also told the media that she was looking forward to the birth of their child.

On April 20 14, Sang Lan gave birth to her son Huang and was officially promoted to mother. Before this, the outside world was not optimistic about this marriage, especially Jian Huang, who has always been regarded as the initiator of the "claim". He and Sang Lan came together because of the huge compensation.

Now their relationship is getting better and better, and the crystallization of love has finally silenced those who once looked down on their feelings.

This article by Xinhua News Agency not only lists Professor Sands's research conclusions, but also reveals more unknown details.

In fact, in addition to the official surveillance video of the competition venue, another person filmed the whole process of Sang Lan's injury at close range. This man is Carter, the coach of Pakitz National Gymnastics Training Center in the United States.

Before Sang Lan's accident, Carter had been sitting on one side of the vault track to watch the athletes' training. When Sang Lan was about to try to jump, Carter took out his own video recorder.

He intended to film the process of Sang Lan's trial jump and take it back to his disciples for reference, but what Carter didn't expect was that he finally filmed the whole process of Sang Lan's accidental injury.

After the news of Sang Lan's accident was exposed, Carter didn't stand up for the first time. It wasn't until a month later that he was interviewed by the American media, gave a detailed and accurate description of Sang Lan's injury process, and revealed for the first time the amazing news that he had a live video.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of all walks of life. Many American media and officials wanted to get the video in Carter's hand, but Kurt refused, because Carter thought that once the video was made public, it would aggravate Sang Lan's own pain, which was undoubtedly inhuman.

Until 2000, Professor Sands got a copy of the video from Carter in the name of doing research, and he was restricted by Carter not to disclose the details of the video.

Although Sands kept his promise at first, in February, 20 15, Sands put 9 video screenshots of Sang Lan's injured scene on his personal webpage as the material for his academic research.

Until now, the outside world finally had a chance to understand the real situation of that year.

This 9-frame video screenshot shows Sang Lan's journey from stepping on the pedal with both feet to her head and neck tribal land, as described by Sands in his conclusion.

Sang Lan's take-off position is really at the front end of the pedal, and the supporting springs at the bottom of the board at that position are more sparse than those at other positions.

Coupled with the arc design of the front of the pedal, it is not enough to support Sang Lan to complete the flight. Finally, her head and neck landed first, and the tragedy happened.

In the video, Romanian coach Beru, who was originally accused by Sang Lan of taking off the mat, stood on the edge of the runway and did not move his position during the whole process from takeoff to injury in Sang Lan.

In other words, Sang Lan's previous allegations are groundless. There is no such thing as Bayrou quitting halfway. Even after Sang Lan was injured, Bayrou was the first person who rushed out to save her.

With the release of this article by Xinhua News Agency and the release of video screenshots in that year, the attitude of the outside world towards Sang Lan has changed rapidly. From the initial sympathy and pity for her, it began to be mixed with accusations. Many netizens left messages in Weibo, and Sang Lan called her a "liar" and a "heartless baiwenhang" ...

In the face of this sudden "storm", Sang Lan didn't sit still. She and her husband Jian Huang published several articles to fight back, denouncing the "immoral" behavior of the media and defending their innocence.

But at this time, the trend of public opinion has long been polarized, and Sang Lan and his family can only live in controversy. What is the truth behind the incident? Perhaps in everyone's mind, there are different answers.

05. After the storm, Sang Lan continued his stormy life.

After this incident, Sang Lan and his family gradually disappeared from public view. Until the end of 2020, Sang Lan came back for participating in the variety show "Hello Mom". Sang Lan, who appeared in front of the camera at this time, is obviously much more mature than before, and the whole person's state is very good.

In the program, Sang Lan excitedly showed the audience her achievements in rehabilitation treatment in the past five years. She was diagnosed as paraplegia by the doctor and was able to complete simple turning over and waiting. In addition, Sang Lan's husband's son Huang also appeared many times, and the three were happy.

Sang Lan began to practice gymnastics before he was six years old. 10-year-old Sang Lan won the first place in five events, such as vault and balance beam, at the Zhejiang National Games, and her gymnastics talent was fully displayed.

1993, Sang Lan officially entered the national gymnastics team. Two years later, she began to participate in domestic and international competitions on behalf of the national gymnastics team, with remarkable achievements, especially the vault, which is recognized as a gold medal event in Sang Lan.

But no one would have thought that her brilliant gymnastics career was finally fixed at1July 2, 9981day, and everything changed on this day, including her life.

After a series of events, most people have forgotten Sang Lan's achievements as a gymnast and that she went to the United States because she won honor for her country, so many people criticized Sang Lan from the moral high ground after the incident.

For Sang Lan at that time, she was just a girl who suffered misfortune. After experiencing an unbearable life, she hopes to fight for something for herself through the law, so that her future life can be better, that's all.

On the other hand, if Sang Lan's accident was entirely her own responsibility, why did American insurance institutions willingly pay $6,543,800,000? Behind these results, there must be a truth that we cannot understand.

As for the marriage between Sang Lan and Jian Huang, it has always been questioned. They proved everything with time. Especially for Sang Lan, marriage and family are undoubtedly a good medicine, which has accelerated the healing of her body wounds to some extent. I believe her future will get better and better.