Interesting article on Wang Junxia - death threats and illness during 1996 Olympics.

the runs wrote:Says she has forgiven Ma Junren, but does not agree with his training methods. she thought there were athletes as talented as her who were ruined by Ma's intensive regime, especially mentally.

"the human body is not designed to run 320km (200 miles) a week, which we were forced to do."

Says teammate Qu Yunxia, 1500m WR holder and 1992 bronze medalist, is the "strongest human being she has ever met." Qu, a child prodigy, was the first member of Ma's army and the only member of the original squad not to take part in the December 1994 mutiny. She was endearingly referred to by her teammates as "big sister."

is dissapointed that other Chinese distance runners don't recieve their fair dues, such as Xing Huina and Zhong Huandi who she describes as a "greater ambassador" than she was, having competed at multiple WC and Olympic Games.

No other member of Ma's team could beat her, Wang says, also noting how she beat the WR on the same day she did.

Is currently writing her memoirs and is excited to tell her story free from the myth and superstition.

After I retired, the cause of China's Middle and Long Distance did not achieve greater development, but also from the world terms, so far no one close to my record. No one had really studied Junxia, ​​we just listen to Ma Junren of publicity, high-intensity, High Intensity Training how, but the real achievements Junxia definitely not training, but the growth of experience and state of mind, these are the decisive .

If you use two formulas to calculate, I think it is a growth environment + independent way of thinking + psychological quality = 80%, hard work + training methods = 20%.

Chinese children are very limited, and I was a kid to enjoy absolute freedom. The mountains Jiapigou, I and a small partner in the mountains pick mushrooms, dig wild; Dalian, a small fishing village, my brother and sister fishing shrimp, Zhuapang Xie, fishing, digging clams. The parents I decided that everything, no one asked me if I do a job, the exam the first several. My mother told me in recognition of style education package dumplings will praise me: look at my old girl to work more than stick package dumplings like the ingot-like.

Those carefree days so that I was initially unable to adapt to school life, parents have never been so scolded. Suddenly one day my curiosity is raised, and immediately became the class. If you do not become athletes, if to continue their studies, I would be the top students of the prestigious universities.

Influence by his brother, and I like to read. 12-year-old when the summer vacation in Dalian, beach day, 3:00, my brother and I went to grab a bunch of adults Fisherfolk Haihong. Sitting on the floor stripping one morning, by weight of money. So far I still remember sitting Haihong pile that choking heat and taste, we stripped hands Heiqu Qu. Pounds earn a dime, one day be able to peel 10 pounds to 20 pounds. A summer vacation, every day.

I never set any goals, what could we champion, in fact, I just want to go with the flow, like seriously do not care about the results, the only care is to medal in the Olympics, because so many people I hold hope. Many people say that long-distance running boring, I value every time beyond each training beyond the last. Go to Ma's Army never did run through the 20 km run down feel particularly proud.

Running inside my heart in singing, enjoy the process arena. I almost do not feel the pressure, in addition to the Olympic Games, before both domestic and foreign competition, and I where to eat Hong sleep, will always be one of the most relaxed of the mentality.

(October 2008, Mr. Wang Junxia Chinese American Huang Tianwen married, gave birth to her daughter in 2010.) Total joke with me, saying Junxia leave Ma's Army, retired, went to the United States is a great loss of the Long Distance sector, and the only The benefit is he (in 1999 both in the United States first encounter). Many times I really do not know the fate of how to arrange.

I often think about the 1996 Olympic Games on the track wearing a flag to run the scenario, then tears, but now they will burst into tears. Those days in Atlanta come to realize a dream, the man seemed not my own. Human potential is really unlimited enormous, and I also learned an important lesson in the life - do not be too care about the results, the more so it can be what you want.

18 to 21 years old, three years of Ma's Army, I saw the other side of life. It is the experience of a period of deep sorrow, like a nightmare, I used to cry, cry for help too. Those injustices experienced by those treated unfairly, and ultimately I can only select independent face, can solve the solution can not be resolved to put down. I had the ordeal as the God of my preference, in the temper of my mind, allow me to grow as a mental and physical health better.

Many people because of that experience may get depressed, but I will take it as a forward momentum. Today, how difficult for me nothing, which Payouyitian I have nothing to lose fame, money, anytime, anywhere I can drop everything and start again.