After Chinese football lost to Vietnam on the first day of the Chinese New Year, many netizens have expressed their gratitude to Yao Ming for saving Chinese basketball, if it were not for his series of reform measures, Chinese basketball would most likely have followed in the footsteps of basketball.
The Beijing Winter Olympics are about to start, and Yao Ming, president of the Chinese Basketball Association, has also served as a torchbearer, and compared with the Beijing Olympic Games 12 years ago, he has obviously become fatter, and the Olympic officials have also compared the photos of Yao Ming as a torchbearer twice, and written the label of "changing strong together".
"2008 Torchbearer, 2022 Torchbearer, basketball legend Yao Ming has once again become a torchbearer!" Olympic official social media wrote and uploaded photos of Yao Ming twice serving as a torchbearer.
As we all know, Yao Ming is obviously fat after retiring, so this year's photo of him as a torchbearer has bulged belly, compared with 13 years ago when he was still an athlete, it is really funny.
What's even funnier is that the Olympic official even customized a label for this copywriting, called "Change Strong Together"! This is reminiscent of the Olympic slogan of "higher, faster, more united", and now there is another "stronger".
However, since becoming the chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, Yao Ming has done his best to fulfill his duties for the improvement of China's basketball level, and he will basically rush to the scene in large and small events, just this year, the WCBA Finals awards have just ended, and the next day he appeared on the CBA's playing field, you know, Changchun and Chengdu are far apart.
It is worth mentioning that after Chinese football lost to Vietnam on the first day of the New Year, many netizens have expressed their gratitude to Yao Ming for saving Chinese basketball, if it were not for his series of reform measures, Chinese basketball would most likely have followed in the footsteps of basketball.
However, now Chinese basketball is in a trough, the Chinese men's basketball team did not qualify for the Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team failed to win a medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Yao Ming is under a lot of pressure, hoping that he can get out of the trough as soon as possible with Chinese basketball.