One day in 2004, in the town of Zwickau in Germany, Susann was bored and was channel surfing. When the Eurosport channel came up, broadcasting a weightlifting match, this is whom she saw:
2004年的某天德国茨维考小镇中，苏珊无聊的切换着电视频道。当切到欧洲频道时，上面正播放着一场举重比赛，这就是她所看到的：
Matthias Steiner, an Austrian weightlifter and a colossal hulk. Susann immediately fell in love and vowed to track him down. She repeatedly pestered Eurosport commentators for Steiner's email address till they got fed up. Susann contacted Matthias via email and agreed to meet in Lower Austria. To Susann's luck, Matthias too fell in love with her at first sight. They married shortly after that and Matthias moved to Germany and took up German citizenship. Though he wasn't much known in the weightlifting community, he promised his wife that someday he would bring home an Olympic medal specially for her.
马蒂亚斯·施泰纳，一个来自奥地利的举重运动员 一个壮汉。苏珊立刻就坠入了爱河并决定对他进行深入了解。她反复询问欧洲赛事的组织者施泰纳的地址直到他们受够了。苏珊用email联系了马蒂亚斯并约定了在奥地利见面。或许幸运之神垂青苏珊，马蒂亚斯在遇到苏珊的第一个晚上就爱上了她。他们在很短的时间内就决定结婚了，马蒂亚斯随苏珊一起搬到了德国并获得了德国公民证照。虽然他并不是举重界的明星运动员，但他向他的妻子保证 总有一天他会为她带回一块奥林匹克金牌。
But on 16 July 2007, Susann got severely injured in a car accident and died. Matthias was inconsolable he lost a lot of weight and nearly gave up his career.
但在2007年的7月16日，苏珊遭遇了一场车祸受了很重的伤并最终死去了。马蒂亚斯陷入了悲伤之中，这让他的体重急速下降并几乎让他放弃了职业生涯。
But then he remembered his promise to her, and through sheer will and hard work, Matthias got selected by Germany to represent them in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
但他想起了对妻子的诺言，虽然机会渺茫 虽然前路漫长，马蒂亚斯仍然选择作为德国代表参加2008年北京奥林匹克运动会。
At Beijing, Matthias ran into trouble at the heavyweight weightlifting competition: he failed in two of his three snatch attempts. Viktor Scerbatihs and Evgeny Chigishev threatened to put him in fourth place and end his prospects. But against all odds, Matthias-with every bit of energy in his body, succeeded to lift 258 kilograms and win the Olympic Gold.
在北京马蒂亚斯在举重比赛中陷入了困境：他在两次挑战重量时失败了。塞尔巴蒂斯的成绩让他面临屈居第四的尴尬并扼杀了他的希望。但面对所有的不利条件，马蒂亚斯用尽了全身的力气最终举起了258公斤的重量并赢得了奥林匹克金牌。
As the winners received their hard-earned medals and the Deutschlandliedwas played in the stadium, this scene was beamed live to over a billion viewers who were left teary-eyed as well:
当冠军收获了他的金牌，当体育馆中响起了德国国歌，当此情此景向亿万人转播时 他拿起了苏珊的照片：
That he was now a national hero in Germany, his name would be remembered in the history of the Olympics-and weightlifting-didn't matter to Matthias. The only thing that mattered to him was that he had succeeded in what he had promised to his love.
现在他已经是德国的英雄，他的名字被永远记录在了奥林匹克历史与举重历史中 但这对于马蒂亚斯来说都不重要。他唯一关心的就是自己终于完成了对挚爱的承诺。
“I will bring the Olympics medel home.”
“我会带着奥林匹克金牌回来。”
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