CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Recently, Chongqing University welcomed a special physical education teacher - Li Xuerui, the women’s singles champion of the 2012 London Olympics and a former national badminton team player. In the morning, she showed up at the Badminton Hall in the Area A of Chongqing University after getting employed to bring the first lesson to the junior students of badminton major in the School of Physical Education.

Olympic champion Li Xuerui has become a physical education teacher of Chongqing University.

Large-scale “star-chasing” site: “I actually played badminton with the Olympic champion”

In the -1 floor of the gymnasium of Chongqing University Area A, in addition to more than 10 students from the special badminton class of the School of Physical Education, many “star-chasing” students and teachers came in admiration, they are all badminton fans who want to see the performance of the Olympic champion.

“I didn’t expect it was really the Olympic champion coming to teach us!” Jiang Liwen, a junior badminton special class student in physical education major at Chongqing University, said he saw Li Xuerui’s name on the teaching affairs system before and came from the Huxi Campus early in the morning just to come to his idol’s class.

In the first lesson, Li Xuerui shared her journey all along with the students, telling them to have a dream and keep working hard for it, to bravely face the setbacks and failures on the way forward, to strive for excellence, and to win the honor of the school and the country.

Li Xuerui taught students to master the essentials of playing badminton step by step.

Li Xuerui told the students to be brave in the face of setbacks and failures and to strive for excellence.

The future: Chongqing University to create a high-quality course of college badminton

Why did Li come to Chongqing University for teaching? How will the Olympic champion work with Chongqing University to build the badminton curriculum in the future?

“I have long aspired to be a teacher in colleges and universities, and I hope to continue to promote and popularize the sport of badminton in colleges and universities.” Li Xuerui said that she hopes to continue to improve the competitive level of her students in teaching and achieve excellent results in the Chongqing college competition and the national college competition.

At the same time, she will work with the college to attract more outstanding high-level athletes to join Chongqing University and accelerate the construction of Chongqing University’s high-level badminton sports teams and badminton high-quality courses.

It is learned that Li Xuerui is mainly teaching two badminton classes to two badminton majors in the Department of Physical Education at Chongqing University’s School of Physical Education this semester. In the next semester, additional public badminton classes will be considered to increase its interaction with students of other non-PE majors. (Translated by Wang Junli, Fathom Language Limited)