Recently, the highly anticipated 32nd Summer Olympic Games was held in Tokyo, which is perhaps the most helpless and the most concerned Olympic Games in history.
The 2020 coronavirus is so strong that the Summer Olympic Games that should be held in Japan have been suspended, and in the face of life and death, everything has become light, and between cancellation and postponement, the Tokyo Olympic Committee has unanimously chosen to postpone.
In July 2021, after a five-year absence, the Olympic Games were late, the players from all over the world were full of confidence, and china's players won the first battle, winning three gold medals in one day, but in the table tennis mixed doubles final, they were not in good shape, only won the silver medal, which disappointed everyone, and Xu Xin said bluntly that it was "difficult to accept".
Speaking of Xu Xin, we must mention a person, his mentor, the first generation of table tennis demon kings - Cao Yanhua.
If it is said that the women's table tennis in the 90s belonged to Deng Yaping, then the women's table tennis in the 80s was Cao Yanhua's home field.
In 1967, 5-year-old Cao Yanhua under the leadership of her parents began to practice table tennis for the first time, in the heart of young Cao Yanhua, table tennis is all the "toys" of her childhood, when the same age friends immersed in rag dolls, family these childish games, Cao Yanhua has begun to hold the racket and swing the ball with care.
In 1977, the 15-year-old Cao Yanhua entered the national team, and she should have continued to practice for a few years before she could participate in the official competition, but because of her outstanding skills and rapid reaction speed, Xu Yinsheng made a bold attempt to send the 15-year-old Cao Yanhua to the national competition.
This is a very tangled decision, because in the eyes of some coaches, Cao Yanhua's technology is not very mature, and she is not in favor of participating in large competitions before she is fully prepared, and as a "good seedling" of a national table tennis team, her first game should be well prepared and confident, this is the first shot, it must be fired.
In the face of various voices, Xu Yinsheng only said: "Let her try and save some experience." ”
A hit, this open tournament Cao Yanhua won the championship, her cunning serve technology is also popular with everyone, Cao Yanhua serve often uses "confusion", one is the backhand high throw, the other is to change the board serve.
Often she was leisurely preparing to serve, and the opponent on the other side was staring at her hand intently, afraid that she would miss the slightest movement, but despite this, when Cao Yanhua suddenly changed the shot and served quickly, there were also a few people who reacted quickly and accurately to catch the ball.
In 1978, Cao Yanhua won the women's singles championship at the 4th Asian Table Tennis Championships, defeating the world singles champion Park Young-soon, and in 1979, at the 35th World Table Tennis Championships, she was one of the main members of the Chinese team that won the women's team championship.
Suddenly, the three words "Cao Yanhua" began to appear frequently in major newspapers and periodicals, and everyone knew that there was such a Shanghai girl who was good at "confusing serve".
Cao Yanhua faced many praises and praise, she did not lose herself, but clearly knew where her shortcomings were, in 1979, Zhou Lansun officially became Cao Yanhua's new head coach, he accurately pointed out Cao Yanhua's own shortcomings with a poisonous eye, Cao Yanhua also knew that these problems had existed for a long time.
After the discussion between the two, Cao Yanhua began to train a new swing technique - "arc playing style".
She is anxious, the playing style is fierce, the serve is her advantage, and the mid-way fight is her short board, Zhou Lansun slightly adjusted according to her playing style, making her power angle more ingenious and more comfortable.
Until 1985, Cao Yanhua has won 7 open championships, won a total of 59 championships in major competitions at home and abroad, when table tennis has not yet become an Olympic event, Cao Yanhua's achievements in the women's table tennis can be called the first in the country, the status of a sister in table tennis is firmly occupied, some people adoring her as "table tennis devil".
When it comes to national athletes, the impression that comes to mind should be very "positive", the "positive" here refers to healthy diet, regular work and rest, and orderly life, after all, it is an athlete who goes out for the country, and there are special personnel responsible for their lives to ensure that they always have a good state.
The image of the first generation of the great devil of the table tennis world is "negative".
Cao Yanhua loves to smoke and drink... She has all kinds of pleasures in life, not only that, she is not satisfied with the desire of the tongue, and she is in love at the time of her youth!
It's just love, but the object of her love is actually Shi Zhihao.
Shi Zhihao, born in Zhejiang in 1959, entered the table tennis team of the Bayi Sports Brigade at the age of 14, and was selected for the national team at the age of 18, after winning a number of awards, Shi Zhihao abruptly withdrew from the main team of table tennis and began his coaching career.
In his coaching career, he has guided many world champions such as Wang Nan, Li Ju, Zhang Yining, Liu Shiwen, etc., and his status is evident. Shi Zhihao and Cao Yanhua, these two people are the main force of the national table tennis team, and no one expected that the two of them would become a couple.
Underground love is not easy to talk about, can not be open, can not show affection, can not be generous dating... Even in front of everyone had to pretend, but these inexplicable problems disappeared before the enthusiasm of young people, who loved and admired each other, and the other was their own example, their own god or goddess.
The empty training ground is their dating shrine, the small racket condenses the inseparable feelings of the two, even the glances in the crowd of dense turns are filled with love, the love of young people is warm and sincere, they think they are properly disguised, but the emotions in the eyes, the involuntary actions can not deceive everyone.
It should be known that the training bureau has regulations: athletes are not allowed to smoke, are not allowed to fall in love, are not allowed to play mahjong, are not allowed to wear strange clothes, and are not allowed to perm their hair.
These cao yanhua actually violated a enough, when she found that her teammates who were in love reminded her, she did not think so: I did not believe that no one was in love, and they caught me!
But luck sometimes that's how it is.
One day, a large group of them gathered in the room of the swimmer Da Diao who was visiting abroad to smoke, all of whom were "uneasy elements" who caused headaches in the training bureau, and everyone sandwiched a cigarette between their fingers, and smoke swirled between their mouths and noses, spewing out from their mouths and noses, white and foggy.
All of you here are old smokers, all of them are "habitual criminals", after smoking they skillfully began to "destroy the corpse and destroy the traces", first of all, the smoked cigarette butts were thrown to the ground, took the soles of the shoes and twisted them, estimated that the fire was extinguished, you can take the broom to sweep, open the door and carry the garbage bag and throw it.
A set of processes down, the room back to the whole, open the window ventilation, the smell dissipated after no one knows what to do with the door closed here, the first time I did this, I was worried about being found and punished by the coach, but several times down, each time it was safe to pass, several people were relieved, the cleaning work was not so rigorous, but it was found that it was not rigorous.
The cause was that the unfinished cigarette butt fell into the mop, the mop made of cloth was just dipped in kerosene, even a little spark was slowly led, and the fire on the mop spread on the ground and slowly burned on the wall...
At that time, it was almost midnight, and someone outside the window found out how this room was smoking, and when he looked closely, he was surprised that it actually caught fire! This person quickly ran to tell the duty room, and the people in the duty room were also frightened, knowing that this building was inhabited by athletes, and if there was a slight mistake, it would be a heavy loss.
The door was finally pried open, everyone rushed in with a firestore, the fire was still spreading to a high place, the whole wall was blackened, fortunately the fire was not large, it was extinguished in time and there was no big loss, but the cause of the fire always had to be investigated, this check, not only smoking but also love was also found out.
Chen Xian, director of the Training Bureau, was furious, and all the leaders involved in this matter, no matter how big or small, were punished, and the culprit naturally could not escape, and the punishment that should be punished, the scolding that should be scolded, but the punishment was finished, the scolding was finished, and the matter of love still had to be investigated.
Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao maintained the same attitude toward the matter: refusing to admit it. As long as you are not caught, there is no way you can say anything.
At that time, if they were caught, it would not only be a simple punishment, but even expelled from the national team in serious cases, how dare they admit it in the face of such a threat.
But they don't admit it doesn't mean that others don't believe it, this matter is tacit in the hearts of everyone, but there is no evidence and no indiscriminate punishment, Cao Yanhua's head coach Zhou Lansun privately asked her if she was true or false, how could she lie in the face of her mentor Cao Yanhua, Zhou Lansun had already guessed in his heart, and he was still sad to hear it.
After Cao Yanhua repeatedly assured that he would never affect the training, Zhou Lansun put his mind at ease, and even said good things for her in front of the leader, and all kinds of temptation ambush pens: "Even if she is in love, the technology has not declined!" Even harder than before. ”
The leader could not abandon her, had to turn a blind eye, in 1986 the two married, in 1987 went to Germany, spent 9 years there, and then divorced due to emotional breakdown.
After ten years of living in Germany, Cao Yanhua returned to China, when table tennis had already entered the Olympic Games as one of the fixed sports, and someone asked Cao Yanhua if he regretted not catching up with the Olympic Games?
She confessed that there must be regrets, but the torch was passed on, without me, there are more people standing on the Olympic field to win glory for China.
What if I regret it? In 1999, Cao Yanhua founded the "Shanghai Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School", which has a special class, and the class's external enrollment brochure reads: "There is no age, career restrictions, as long as you like table tennis, then you come." ”
World champion Xu Xin is from this school, when Cao Ping Pong's twentieth anniversary, Xu Xin returned to his alma mater to celebrate, dripping wine did not stick to his broken vows that day, drunk with a red face, he held a glass of wine in both hands to pay homage to the teacher, Cao Yanhua patted his shoulder, at this time silent victory.
Cao Yanhua, 59, has a son, has a handsome husband who remarried, has a school, has a room of large and small trophy medals, and there is no trace of the years on her face, she is still flamboyant and beautiful, just like the 22-year-old girl who hid in the house and smoked.