The national table tennis grand slam became the biggest winner and was selected into two authoritative lists! Quan Hongchan's failure to be elected has caused controversy. Xinhua News Agency, as an authoritative media in China, has announced the list of the top ten domestic and international athletes in 2021, and the national table tennis Grand Slam winner Ma Long has become the biggest winner, the only Chinese athlete to be selected for the international list, and the only athlete to be selected for the two major lists.
Judging from the list of the top ten athletes of the year, football, tennis, athletics, F1 and other sports occupy a place. The ten athletes are Argentine football superstar Messi, Polish football star Lewandowski, Serbian tennis king Djokovic, Dutch racing world champion Verstappen, Danish badminton world champion, new 200m flyer Italy Olympic champion Jacob, Jamaican female flyer Elaine Thompson, Norwegian men's 400m hurdles famous Walheim, and national table tennis double-lap Grand Slam winner Malone. In addition to Ma Long, the other nine athletes are Shooting Olympic champion Yang Qian, Asian flyer Su Bingtian, diving Olympic double champion Shi Tingmao, weightlifting Olympic champion Lu Xiaojun, swimming Olympic double champion Zhang Yufei, swimming Olympic champion Wang Shun, badminton Olympic champion Chen Yufei, put Olympic champion Gong Lijiao, and the only winter sports athlete Gu Ailing.
At the previous Tokyo Olympic Games, Malone won the table tennis men's singles championship, becoming the first athlete in Olympic history to successfully defend the table tennis men's singles champion, and also the athlete with the most world championship titles in the history of table tennis, which shows that There is no problem with Malone being selected as one of the top ten domestic and international athletes, and he deserves these honors.
However, the list of the top ten athletes in China still caused some controversy, some netizens expressed dissatisfaction with the failure of the diving 14-year-old young general Quan Hongchan to lose the election, in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Quan Hongchan jumped out of the full score in the diving project, and broke the world record in one fell swoop, and won the championship, so many netizens think that Quan Hongchan should be selected into the list of the top ten athletes in China, and although Gu Ailing has also achieved relatively good results, compared with the Olympic champions such as Quan Hongchan, Gu Ailing's results this year are indeed a little worse. Therefore, many people question the unfairness of this list, just from the results achieved, Quan Hong chan is indeed better than Gu Ailing, I don't know what criteria the official selection is based on.