By virtue of Jun Mo's words, he will become a thousand bones! Behind every successful person is an obscure person who does not get paid attention to!
Table tennis is known as China's "national ball", since 1988 table tennis became the Olympic event, the national table tennis won most of the gold medals, but also created many table tennis stars.
Everyone knows Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui, Zhang Jike, Ma Long and Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Ding Ning Li Xiaoxia, these Grand Slam athletes very well, and their stories and achievements are mentioned as usual.
But in addition to these very familiar Grand Slam athletes, in fact, there are many famous players in national table tennis, who have also participated in the Olympic Games, but because they have not achieved too good results in the Olympic Games, or because of their long age, few people have mentioned it now.
Let's take stock of the table tennis players who have been forgotten by fans.
First, Li Huifen.
Many fans are not familiar with this famous player, but in fact, she once won the women's singles runner-up at the Seoul Olympics!
Many fans know that Chen Jing is the first Olympic singles champion in the history of Chinese women's table tennis, but few people know that it was Li Huifen who won in the final.
And the story of Chinese women's table tennis in the Seoul Olympic Games, has also been hotly discussed by fans, let the ball and be let go, Chen Jing won the championship back to China but was not reused, Li Huifen was let into the final, but lost to Chen Jing, Jiao Zhimin is even more angry because of the ball and announced his retirement and left South Korea.
In fact, Lee Wai-fen was also a very powerful athlete at that time, but because of the handover incident at the Seoul Olympic Games, Lee Hui-fen announced her retirement shortly after participating in the Olympic Games, and later went to Hong Kong, China, as a table tennis coach, and trained many excellent table tennis players.
Second, Chen Zihe.
Many fans are even strangers to Chen Zihe, in fact, Chen Zihe once cooperated with Gao Jun in the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships and won the women's doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships!
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, Chen Zihe participated in the singles competition of the Olympic Games with Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong, but unfortunately, Chen Zihe was in the quarterfinals, and Chen Zihe lost to North Korea's Lee Fenji and missed the final four.
However, at that time, Lee Fen-hee and South Korea's Xuan Jinghe had always been the strongest enemies of Chinese women's table tennis, and Chen Zihe was not too surprised that he was not able to defeat Lee Fen-hee.
In terms of doubles, Chen Zihe and Gao Jun reached the final of the Olympic Games, but in the final, they lost to Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong, and were relegated to the second place.
Third, Liu Wei.
Now many fans know Liu Wei, more from the table tennis game, Liu Wei as the commentator to know Liu Wei, but in fact, Liu Wei was also once the third main force of Chinese women's table tennis.
In 1996, Liu Wei and Deng Yaping Qiao Hong qualified for the Atlanta Olympic Games in singles.
In this Olympic Games, in fact, Liu Wei's performance is still very good, all the way to the semi-finals.
In the semi-finals, Liu Wei faced the defending champion Deng Yaping. In the other semi-final, Chen Jing, representing Chinese Taipei, defeated Qiao Hong, Deng Yaping and Liu Wei, who can reach the final, will face Chen Jing!
As a result, Liu Wei, who is 4 years older than Deng Yaping, won the first set in the semi-finals, but then lost three consecutive sets, losing 3-1 to Deng Yaping and missing the final. Liu Wei, who lost the game, refused to shake hands with Deng Yaping, which also once rumored that Liu Wei was forced to give the ball to Deng Yaping!
Fourth, Sun Jin.
It is estimated that many young fans are now even less familiar with Sun Jin.
In fact, when Sun Jin was at the Sydney Olympics, he was once the third main force of Chinese women's table tennis, second only to Wang Nan and Li Ju.
In the qualifiers for the Olympic Asian instrument before the Sydney Olympic Games, Sun Jin defeated Zhang Yining to win the final championship, thus getting the opportunity to participate in the Sydney Olympic Games.
Sun Jin was only 20 years old at the time.
However, unexpectedly, in the first round of the women's singles of the Sydney Olympic Games, Sun Jin faced Jing Junhong, who represented Singapore, who was originally a Chinese player, and Jiao Zhimin and Chen Jing were teammates at the same time, and went to Singapore in 1991 to develop.
At that time, many people in the industry believed that Sun Jin's defeat of Jing Junhong should not be a big problem, but unexpectedly, in the game, Sun Jin was 0-3 against the opponent, and encountered a round of the main game, which was also the worst record of Chinese women's table tennis in the Olympic Games.
After the Olympics, Sun Jin was injured in a competition, and since then his state has been declining, and finally he had to announce his retirement at the age of 22!
Fifth, Niu Jianfeng.
Niu Jianfeng was a contemporary of Zhang Yining, and in 2004, Niu Jianfeng defeated Li Ju and qualified for the Athens Olympic Games.
At that time, Niu Jianfeng was second only to Wang Nan Zhang Yining in the team, and was the third main force of Chinese women's table tennis.
Niu Jianfeng is also determined to prove his strength at the Athens Olympic Games.
Unexpectedly, in the quarter-finals, Niu Jianfeng faced The North Korean player Kim Heung-mi, whom he had previously defeated, but was swept away by his opponent with a score of 0-4.
And this Olympic Games has also become the beginning of the fall of Niu Jianfeng, the following year's Asian Championships, Niu Jianfeng led by Waterloo, Niu Jianfeng also faded out of the table tennis!
Summary: For these athletes above, although they may not have achieved too good results in the Olympic Games because they lost the game early, they still made their due contributions to the development of Chinese table tennis, we fans can not only know those Grand Slam players, for these obscure athletes, we should also respect and remember their contributions!