The old saying goes that corruption in the sports field is deep and often unknown. People may have had different interpretations of this sentence before, but now it seems that especially after Guo Zhongwen, who parachuted into the position of director of the General Administration of Sport, was brought down six years later.
This statement has undoubtedly been greatly confirmed. However, this time the incident occurred in the less well-known field of judo and was just a scandal. According to Judo Olympic champion Zhuang Xiaoyan's statement on her personal social media platform, her mentor Liu Yongfu is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Liu Yongfu forced his students to take drugs in order to achieve results. Of course, taking drugs is not enough, training cannot be neglected either. However, Zhuang Xiaoyan was very resistant and sometimes directly spit out the medicine. This kind of medicine has great side effects and can almost cause irreversible damage to the body.
Liu Yongfu noticed Zhuang Xiaoyan's abnormal behavior and sometimes watched her take the medicine before leaving. However, including Zhuang Xiaoyan, many Judo students dared to be angry but did not dare to speak up.
At present, only Zhuang Xiaoyan has openly criticized her mentor Liu Yongfu, while other disciples of Liu Yongfu have not spoken out. This is because Liu Yongfu is a Judo coach with the power of life and death. Most people only know that Coach Liu Yongfu has a great reputation in the Judo world.
For example, Li Zhongyun won the women's Judo gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Although women's Judo was only a demonstration event at that time and the gold medal was not included in the medal tally, it was also considered an outstanding achievement under Liu Yongfu's coaching and could be talked about with relish;
For example, Zhuang Xiaoyan won the women's Judo gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, which was the first Judo gold medal in our country's Olympic history; for example, Sun Fuming won the women's Judo gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, which was the first gold medal for our country's delegation at that Olympics.
However, Yang Xiuli, the winner of the women's Judo gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Sun Fuming, the winner of the women's Judo gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and Zhuang Xiaoyan, the winner of the women's Judo gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, all used to practice shot put.
They later switched to Judo, and their coaches were all Liu Yongfu. To some extent, such a coincidence is too unusual. More importantly, Zhuang Xiaoyan also revealed that Liu Yongfu went to her home every day to brainwash her parents.
This made her, who originally followed the shot put route at the city sports school, switch to Judo. With Zhuang Xiaoyan's example first, will Sun Fuming and Yang Xiuli have the same experience? The answer to this question can only be said to be clear in one's heart, after all, Liu Yongfu is now the "father of Judo".
To achieve this condition, it is far from enough to produce only a few disciples. It must have a continuous impact on the entire Judo industry. It is best for Liu Yongfu to bring up a large number of disciples, and then these disciples bring up more disciples, passing on the torch generation after generation.
Of course, due to the relationship of succession, these people are likely to be cut from the same mold. However, the shameless Liu Yongfu once proudly claimed in an interview that it is not easy to cultivate five Olympic champions, and it is even more difficult to win consecutive Olympic championships.
This was an interview in 2012. Liu Yongfu said: My way of cultivating Olympic champions is different from that of other coaches. For example, the national team, the selected players are almost the top students of each provincial team, invincible in local competitions.
Then they go to the national team coaches for training, and only after training under the national team coaches can they reach the top level; while the players I bring up are all cultivated by me, and the routes they follow are completely opposite, from the provincial team to the national team and then to Olympic champions.
Sometimes as long as the good seedlings of the provincial team enter the national team, it means that winning the Olympic championship is almost a foregone conclusion. Liu Yongfu's words are true, and at that time, others only thought that Liu Yongfu had special talents in imparting Judo skills or that Liaoning was rich in Judo talents.
But they never expected that Liu Yongfu actually used very clumsy means, that is: at the cost of damaging the athletes' bodies, to maximize potential within a certain period of time. To put it bluntly, doing so is not only for the sake of immediate honor and glory, but also brings an unhealthy trend to the Judo project and even the entire sports circle.
If someone like Liu Yongfu uses such means to gain fame and can always sit firmly in the coaching position, does Judo still have a future? What about other projects in the sports world?
It is worth noting that Zhuang Xiaoyan revealed in her self-exposure that she has not interacted with Liu Yongfu since winning the Olympic gold medal. She herself was unaware of Liu Yongfu's affairs, but Liu Yongfu has been exploiting them and doing so shamelessly.
That's enough, but Liu Yongfu actually spread a lot of rumors to attack her when Zhuang Xiaoyan was powerful. Zhuang Xiaoyan didn't know at the time that these things were done by Liu Yongfu until later when she discovered that it was Liu Yongfu who was secretly making trouble and doing all this.
Zhuang Xiaoyan said that over the years, she has not said a single "no" to Coach Liu Yongfu. Although she switched to Judo, she was able to win the championship due to multiple factors. So she has always been grateful, but what she didn't expect was that Liu Yongfu didn't think so.
Instead, her kindness could only be rewarded with evil and not with kindness. Kindness is not wrong, but it is wrong to give kindness to the wrong person. One of the things Liu Yongfu did was to go to Zhuang Xiaoyan's house every day to sponge off and change the thoughts of Zhuang Xiaoyan's parents.
There are other more disgusting and morally corrupt practices that Zhuang Xiaoyan did not mention, using the phrase "justice is in people's hearts" to describe them. However, Zhuang Xiaoyan also said that those who are familiar with Liu Yongfu know his character and personality. But Liu Yongfu is now pretending very well.
It is worth noting that Zhuang Xiaoyan did not mention the fake fall incident. The fake fall incident refers to Sun Fuming pretending to fall to the ground during the Judo competition held on October 13, 2005 at the Tenth National Games. As a result of this fall, PLA player Yan Sairui won.
Yan Sairui is a player agreed upon by the PLA team and the Liaoning team, and the victory meant that both the PLA team and the Liaoning team would receive a gold medal. If Sun Fuming had won, only the Liaoning team could get the gold medal, and the PLA team would miss out on the gold medal.
After this incident, Liu Yongfu was "publicly judged" by netizens and fans, and there were calls for Liu Yongfu to step down online and offline. In the face of this matter, Liu Yongfu remained silent and did not appear in the public eye for a long time.
Although Liu Yongfu later returned to Beijing as a Judo coach and brought up Yang Xiuli, who won the women's Judo gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, this incident has always been a stain on Liu Yongfu and remains unresolved to this day.
With Zhuang Xiaoyan's direct criticism, the black spots on Liu Yongfu will undoubtedly increase. It remains to be seen whether Zhuang Xiaoyan's senior sisters and junior sisters will stand up. If they do, Liu Yongfu will inevitably end up with a ruined reputation. We'll just have to wait and see.