Golden Lily - 10 Years On (eBook)

Asia's First Dinghy Sailing Gold Medallist

Lijia Xu (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
256 Seiten
Fernhurst Books Limited (Verlag)
978-1-917801-21-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Golden Lily is the fascinating autobiography from Asia's first ever dinghy sailing gold medallist. It tells of her learning to sail and becoming a full-time athlete at just 10 years old. At that age Lijia Xu was taken away from her parents and enrolled in the gruelling Chinese training regime, a programme meticulously prescribed across all sporting disciplines to catapult the nation's talented youngsters to international champions. It is a rare insight into a shocking world of relentless physical training and unquestioning mental compliance. Lijia's honest and heart-felt account takes you on her journey from physical disabilities and debilitating injuries to learning to think for herself, eventually going on to achieve her dream of becoming an Olympic gold medallist. Now, ten years since its first publication, Lily has updated the story. She tells of her third and final Olympic campaign at Rio 2016 and then training to be a sports journalist and covering Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 as a reporter. Lijia opens up about her secret relationship with her English coach and their subsequent marriage, as well as talking about her post-Olympic sailing including IMOCA 60s, M32s, J80s and Waszps. This is an inspirational story of a young woman's will to succeed despite all that her background threw at her.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: asian sailing • Ben Ainslie • chinese sailing team • ILCA • ILCA 6 • ILCA world champion • Jon Emmett • Laser • Laser Radial • Laser world champion • London 2012 • Olympics • Optimist • optimist world champion • Rio 2016 • Sailing • woman sailor • world sailor of the year
• ISBN-10: 1-917801-21-1 / 1917801211
• ISBN-13: 978-1-917801-21-8 / 9781917801218