[Sports sweetheart / swimming champion × intern reporter / two-way travel / from the training ground to the Olympic podium]
The first time Qiyang met Jiang Yixia, she was fished out of the water.
That day the swimming team was open for interviews, and the pool was surrounded by people with guns and cannons. On Jiang Yixia's first day of internship, she was small and weak, so she fell into the swimming pool when someone squeezed her. The disinfectant water got stuck in my throat and my camera was almost scrapped. There was the sound of shutters all around, but no one pulled her.
It was Qi Yang who emerged from the water.
As soon as he swam eight hundred meters, he turned around and carried her ashore. He squatted in front of her and handed back the lens cap that she had dropped. He was dripping with water and smiled at her: "Are you okay?" The sunlight leaked through the gap in the ceiling that day and shattered on his shoulders. She later wrote in her diary: From this moment on, I began to think that this person would win the championship.
Later Jiang Yixia became the most diligent intern reporter on the swimming team. Others follow hot spots, she follows training. She wrote that his turn was 0.1 Second slower, and the next race would be 0.1 Second faster; she wrote that he entered the water half a degree, and the next race would be at a completely correct angle. He read and memorized every article. He didn't know that she secretly saved his interview transcript from three years ago, and she didn't know that he kept the photo of her being fished out in his phone.
In the Olympic men's 1,500-meter final, the moment Qi Yang hit the wall, Jiang Yixia squatted by the pool and clicked the shutter, her face filled with tears. He came over with the national flag draped in his hand, handed the camera in her hand to his teammates, lowered his head and kissed her. The sound of the shutter flooded the entire venue.
Later, the reporter asked him: With so many cameras pointing at you, why did you only see her?
Qi Yang said: "Because she is the only one, and I am the only one in the camera."
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Every frame she pressed the shutter was him.
Every destination he rushed to was her.
Mission: Competitive sportsmanship, never give up!