At the end of the 2022 WTT China Macau leg, in the first leg of Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen's comeback, Liu Shiwen achieved a good result of 1 gold and silver, Xu Xin also won 1 gold medal, only Ma Long's mixed doubles first round, the men's singles was eliminated by Wang Chuqin, and the results were not very ideal.
The unsatisfactory results made many fans expect Malone to achieve good results in the subsequent WTT Muscat station competition, but the recent national table tennis news came that in the upcoming Muscat competition, the national table tennis sent 28 players, but Malone did not appear in the big list.
Why did Malone, who had not yet recovered, choose to retire? Soon, the answer came, too, because Malone had other tasks on him. As we all know, on February 4, the Beijing Winter Olympics will kick off, in order to promote and help the Beijing Winter Olympics, Ma Long has previously become the "Ice and Snow Sports Promotion Ambassador" of the Tokyo Olympic Games during the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, And Ma Long shoulders the burden of promoting the Winter Olympics.
Of course, this is not one of Malone's most important tasks, what is Malone's most important task? According to media reports, on February 3, the torch relay of the Beijing Winter Olympics came to the next day, and the most eye-catching in this station was the Badaling Great Wall point pass known as the "Ridge of the Nation", and this time it was Ma Long, who had won the rio Olympic Games and the Tokyo Olympic Games two-time men's singles champion and won 5 gold medals.
Becoming the first baton of the second day of the relay of the holy flame, this is the honor of Ma Long, Liu Guoliang of the national table tennis is also a congratulations for the dragon team, and in the interview, Ma Long also said: I want to use the spirit of passing the torch today, so that Chinese ice and snow athletes can feel the strength of China and feel that everyone in Badaling blesses them.
Yes, this is the reason why Malone withdrew from the race, it is not that he does not want to seize the opportunity of the game to revive his state, but he has a more important mission to complete, and this mission also allows Malone to sacrifice his ego and go all out to bear this burden, but we also believe that for the Dragons, recovering the state is sooner or later, because the Dragons have experienced too many big winds and waves, and the loss of one city and one pool is only a small wave for him.
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