OLYMPICS She's a Four-Time Olympian. Her Parents Want Her to Get a Real Job. Li… @ Shmuel Leib Melamud

Shmuel Leib Melamud
31-07-2024 08:58

OLYMPICS She's a Four-Time Olympian. Her Parents Want Her to Get a Real Job. Lily Zhang is the most decorated American ever in her Olympic sport. Even she can't escape parental career pressure. 'Being a ping-pong athlete is not stable. But to her parents, table tennis was an opportunity to enhance her college applications. "If she played at a high level, it would help her get into a good school," says Liu, her mother. At age 16, she competed at the 2012 London Games. Though she lost her first match, her parents declared it a resounding victory. "They're like, OK, you got the Olympics, you got that on your college apps and now you can focus on studies, " Zhang says. She mostly quit table tennis after that. Then, as a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, she felt something was missing. She wanted to take a gap year and train for the next Summer Games. Her mother disapproved. "You already went to the London Olympics," Liu said at the time. "That is enough."

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M2aAVGuuQnW 1 yr

Гладиатор - это тоже работа. Такая же работа, как любая другая. Как врач, как инженер, как журналист. Лучше, чем киллер, хуже, чем судья Верховного суда или начальник генерального штаба