Olympic champion Shi Zhiyong successfully proposed with three gold medals
Olympic champion Shi Zhiyong successfully proposed with three gold medals. At the ceremony, Shi Zhiyong personally handed over two Olympic gold medals and one National Games gold medal. The gold medal was hung around Chen Xiaodan's neck as a token of love. Chen Xiaodan and Shi Zhiyong are classmates in elementary school and can be regarded as "childhood sweethearts". Olympic champion Shi Zhiyong successfully proposed with three gold medals. Olympic champion Shi Zhiyong successfully proposed with three gold medals 1
On the afternoon of September 23, Shi Zhiyong returned to Shaoxing after completing his National Games competition duties. Having successfully won the gold medal at the National Games, he has another important task this time, which is to propose to his girlfriend.
In the carefully arranged proposal ceremony, Shi Zhiyong knelt down on one knee and personally hung two Olympic gold medals and one National Games gold medal around the neck of his girlfriend Chen Xiaodan, and the two hugged each other tightly.
At this year’s Tokyo Olympics, after Shi Zhiyong won the gold medal in the 73kg weightlifting, he exposed his relationship for the first time in the mixed interview area after the game, and shouted a confession of love to his girlfriend: I have kept you waiting for so long, Wait until I go back to marry you.
Subsequently, after many twists and turns, the reporter finally unveiled Shi Zhiyong’s mysterious girlfriend—Chen Xiaodan, a former member of the Zhejiang Youth Women’s Volleyball Team, who represented the Zhejiang Province Youth Women’s Volleyball Team in the 2013 National Games, and is now a member of Shaoxing City The girls' volleyball coach of Group C of Lu Xun Elementary School is 1.75 meters tall, 7 centimeters taller than Shi Zhiyong.
Chen Xiaodan and Shi Zhiyong are classmates in elementary school and can be regarded as "childhood sweethearts". Chen Xiaodan revealed: "We were both studying at Ningbo Sports School at the time. In the sixth grade, he and I were assigned to the same class, and he was still the monitor of our class."
From classmates to lovers, Chen Xiaodan said that the two of them were inseparable. It came together naturally. "When I was in school, I had no other ideas. It was just a simple relationship between classmates. We would encourage each other to work hard to improve our grades in our respective projects."
In his junior year, Chen Xiaodan returned to Ningbo , started working as an intern reporter at a local media, and Shi Zhiyong had just won a gold medal at the Rio Olympics.
“When he returned to Ningbo after the Olympics, I was arranged to go over and interview him.” In this way, the two of them chatted more and more, and their relationship gradually heated up. "We know each other very well and have similar personalities and temperaments, so we get together naturally. There is nothing special."
Chen Xiaodan said that Shi Zhiyong in life is gentle, filial and family-oriented. In fact, the two originally planned to get married last year, but with the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, their wedding had to be postponed.
Now, Shi Zhiyong, who has had a good harvest at the Tokyo Olympics and the Shaanxi National Games, finally has time to fulfill his promise and complete the good harvest in love. Olympic champion Shi Zhiyong successfully proposed with three gold medals 2
Shi Zhiyong knelt down on one knee and asked: "Will you marry me?" Chen Xiaodan stretched out his left hand and asked Shi Zhiyong to help him put on the ring... Yesterday, Shi Zhiyong, who had just won the National Games, rushed to Shaoxing without stopping and planned this romantic proposal without telling his girlfriend Chen Xiaodan, who works in Shaoxing.
At the ceremony, Shi Zhiyong personally hung two Olympic gold medals and one National Games gold medal around Chen Xiaodan's neck as a token of love. "Actually, we have made an agreement long ago that after this year's Olympic Games and National Games are over, we will choose a good day to get the certificate and get married." Chen Xiaodan said.
When Shi Zhiyong won the championship in the Rio Olympics in 2016, Chen Xiaodan, who was studying at Hunan Normal University, came to Ningbo Evening News for an internship during the summer vacation and worked with reporters on Olympic reports. The reason for this choice is that she has a "sports background" - she was a member of the volleyball team of Ningbo Sports School and entered the provincial youth team. At that time, Chen Xiaodan revealed to reporters: Although she and Shi Zhiyong were in different sports at Ningbo Sports School, they were in the same cultural class in sixth grade, and Shi Zhiyong was the monitor.
When Shi Zhiyong won the gold medal in Rio, the reporter specially asked Chen Xiaodan to interview him together. In this way, the two elementary school classmates "connected" again. "Later, classmates and teachers from Ningbo Sports School met for gatherings from time to time. The more times we met, the more contacts we had." Chen Xiaodan said with a smile that this was a "love that grows over time." At first, it was just a chat between classmates, but later the topics became more and more frequent. , the feelings gradually warmed up.
Fishing is Shi Zhiyong’s favorite way to relax, and Chen Xiaodan will accompany him fishing when he has time.
Photo provided by the interviewee
During the 2017 Tianjin National Games, Chen Xiaodan cheered for Shi Zhiyong from a distance in WeChat Moments. A reporter who was interviewing in Tianjin at the time asked Chen Xiaodan why she didn't come to the scene. She said: "He didn't let me come, and I was afraid that he would be distracted." That year, Chen Xiaodan was still working in a primary school in Fenghua. In 2019, the famous volleyball coach Yu Juemin "digged" Chen Xiaodan to Shaoxing and became a volleyball coach at the local sports school.
Shi Zhiyong knew that Chen Xiaodan liked puppies, so he bought one. Because Shi Zhiyong liked eating peanuts, Chen Xiaodan named the dog "Peanut". Photo provided by the interviewee
From classmates to lovers, Chen Xiaodan and Shi Zhiyong have spent less time together and more time apart in recent years. She said that because they are both athletes, they can communicate easily and understand each other. "We have the same idea and the same goal! I can understand him. Once he joins the national team, he will 'hand it over to the country.'" Chen Xiaodan revealed that he would encourage Shi Zhiyong from time to time to face injuries calmly, receive good treatment and Training, because injuries can easily cause irritability, "He also often advises me to relax at work, and we support each other like this."
Shi Zhiyong has achieved good results frequently in the competition, and Chen Xiaodan is also working hard to do well. For his own career, in the Zhejiang Provincial Youth Women's Volleyball Championship in May this year, Chen Xiaodan's team won the Group C championship.
A pair of sweet sports lovers. Photo provided by the interviewee
On July 28 this year, after Shi Zhiyong won the championship in the Tokyo Olympics, he confessed on the spot: I have kept you waiting for so long, wait until I go back to marry you! "It was only after a friend forwarded the news to me that I found out what he said in Tokyo." Chen Xiaodan revealed that she felt really sweet in her heart at the time. "The next morning, we chatted on WeChat video for a while."
With Shi Zhiyong publicly professing his love and proposing in a high-profile manner, Chen Xiaodan also entered the public eye. Now, friends in the circle who have "kept secrets" for them for many years no longer need to be "kept-lipped" but can say loudly: Bless you!