On January 28, Beijing time, Zhang Jun, chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association and head coach of the Chinese badminton team, introduced the reasons behind the split team of Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong, which are loved by fans, in an interview with China Sports News, which caused a lot of controversy and became the focus of netizens' attention.
Zhang Jun said that because of Huang Yaqiong's age problem, the mixed doubles ace combination Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong decided to split the file. Zhang Jun also added: "They can fight for another six months and another year." But consider the Paris Olympic cycle. Our goal is to set the Paris Olympics, mixed doubles this gold medal to stay in China, so how to make the combination more competitive, optimize the combination is the most important. For Zhang Jun's remarks, some netizens expressed strong dissatisfaction, believing that it was very inappropriate to publicly provoke the age of the team members who had made meritorious contributions to Guo Yu. In addition, it is also very irresponsible to completely blame the reason for the "IELTS" combination's dismantling of the team on Huang Yaqiong's age problem. Considering that Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong has created many glories for the Chinese badminton team, netizens even reprimanded Zhang Jun for saying that "unloading and killing donkeys is really terrible."
Admittedly, considering the Paris Olympics two and a half years later, zheng siwei/Huang Yaqiong's team is currently the best plan to optimize the mixed combination of national feathers. However, the two have also been remembered for their outstanding battle achievements for Guoyu in the past few years, winning the mixed doubles championship for Guoyu at the 2018 World Championships, and the Su Cup championship for Guoyu in 2019, etc. Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong has also played invincible hands all over the world. Now that the national coach Huang Yaqiong is old and has broken up the team, how can it not make the fans feel cold. Compared with the national table tennis, several veterans over the age of 30, such as Ma Long, Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen, etc., the statement when the world table tennis championships gave up the participation quota to young players last year was both atmospheric and decent, and the series of operations of the national feathers were high and low. It is no wonder that when the various national table tennis events attract the attention of the whole society, the attention of badminton is still stagnant.