Svetlana Khorkina's growing experience.

This thin girl born in Belgorod was named "Svitlana", which means "light" in Russian. According to China's zodiac sign, she is a sheep, and the constellation is Capricorn, and "sheep" means stubborn in Russian.

Khorkina said that perhaps because of the "double sheep", she was particularly stubborn since she was a child, as naughty as a boy, and never refused to sit quietly. My mother's biggest headache is picky eaters. It is for this reason that she was sent to the gym by her mother when she was four years old. I hope she can consume a lot of energy after learning gymnastics, and stop moping after breakfast. But the mother would never have thought that her daughter found her true love in these simple gymnastics equipment rooms.

When the first coach saw 4-year-old Khorkina, he shook his head. This little girl is one head taller than her peers, which is by no means an advantage in gymnastics. From the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, we turned to looking for short and explosive seedlings to improve the difficulty of movements in order to get high marks in the competition. Height and long legs mean insufficient waist and abdomen strength, slow rotation speed, poor stability and difficulty in exercise.

Until the age of seven, Khorkina met a famous coach, boris Pilkin, at an audition in his hometown. He began to spend his energy on shaping this skinny and stubborn little girl, and he looked forward to some kind of miracle.

1994, Khorkina participated in the international competition for the first time. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, she shattered people's doubts about her height with a silver medal in the European Championship. Then at the 3 1 World Gymnastics Championships held in Japan the following year, she completed the vault of Mar Kailov.

Previously, no one believed that female athletes could do this. Khorkina surpassed the traditional concept of gymnastics: she proved that gymnastics is a sport that can be maintained for a long time, and there is no need to retire at the age of 17. She also changed people's views on the figure of female gymnasts. Tall gymnasts can still perform complex aerial spins.