It's early to be famous, and for athletes, this sentence also applies. For example, although there are many talents in the national women's table tennis team, athletes like Guo Yue who won the world championship at the age of 16 and defeated the great demon Zhang Yining at the age of 19 are still rare. Therefore, at that time, everyone was very optimistic about her, thinking that she was Zhang Yining's successor. However, no one expected that she would be removed from the national team at her peak. What's going on here?
After Guo Yue's debut in the world table tennis world, her fierce and non-destructive playing style left a very deep impression on the fans, and she was also known as a "genius girl". Indeed, Guo Yue is indeed a talented table tennis player.
Guo Yue was born in 1988 to a working-class family in Anshan, Liaoning Province. When he was a child, Guo Yue's physical fitness was not too good. Her father, Guo Xiangsheng, sent her to a children's sports school to learn to play table tennis when she was 6 years old in order to enhance her physical fitness. Unexpectedly, after studying table tennis in sports school for two years, Guo Yue's level became the most powerful among his peers.
In 1996, Guo Yue participated in the Liaoning Provincial Children's Table Tennis Competition, and at the age of 8, she passed through layers of selection, and finally won the championship, and was selected to continue training at the provincial sports school.
At that time, in the provincial children's table tennis competition, the youngest age group was the 1987 players, and the coach considered Guo Yue's extraordinary strength and let her participate in the 1987 group out of the idea of exercising her. In the competition group, she is not only the shortest, but also the youngest. But she was fearless as a teenager, and with good psychological qualities, she played very well on the field, and finally defeated more than 70 opponents and won the championship.
This result shocked the coach who had been with the players for many years, and he immediately found Guo Xiangsheng. Guo Xiangsheng, who originally did not think of training his daughter to become an athlete, realized that his daughter was actually a talented athlete. So Guo Yue was sent to the provincial sports school again.
In the provincial sports school, Guo Yue was deeply valued and affirmed by the coach. Although Guo Yue did not speak much, she always had a tenacity. Usually training never screams tired, when playing games, she did not admit defeat. Therefore, her performance in the provincial sports school has always been very good, and her results are outstanding. Not long after, she was selected for the provincial table tennis team.
In 1999, Guo Yue won the national children's table tennis competition, so he was transferred to the national second team for training.
At that time, the national table tennis team had two teams, one team was the main team, they mainly attended some major international competitions, such as Wang Nan and Zhang Yining were the soul figures in the main lineup at that time. The second team is equivalent to the reserve team, and they are all strong players selected from the provincial team.
At that time, Guo Yue was only transferred to the second team for training, and whether she could stay or not depended on her strength and achievements. That is to say, for players with strength, there is a lack of a game that can verify strength. Guo Yue's luck was quite good, and she participated in an Asian Invitational tournament shortly after training with the national team, winning the intercontinental championship. So Guo Yue stayed in the national second team, when she was only 11 years old, the youngest member of the national table tennis team.
The national table tennis team is mobile. If you enter the first team, if the results regress, you are likely to be eliminated back to the second team; if the members of the second team are strong enough, they also have the opportunity to rush into the first team. Therefore, in the national table tennis team, hard training has always been an old tradition in the team, and the players are eager to get more opportunities to participate in the competition, so the competition is very fierce.
Guo Yue did not train for a long time in the national second team, and he was sharp and got a lot of opportunities to participate in the competition.
For Guo Yue, the opportunity for her to really show her face was in 2004.
At the 47th World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, Guo Yue won the championship by defeating Zhang Rui 3:1 in the final, and she also became the youngest world champion in the history of Chinese table tennis.
Subsequently, Guo Yue fought hard in the women's singles finals of the INTERNATIONAL TABLE Tennis Federation Pro Tour, and finally defeated the defending champion Niu Jianfeng 4:2 to win the women's singles championship.
At this time, Guo Yue was very strong, and after a fierce selection competition, she also competed with wang nan, Zhang Yining and Niu Jianfeng in the Athens Olympic Games, and won the bronze medal with Niu Jianfeng in a doubles match against South Korean athletes.
Guo Yue's highlight was at the 2007 World Championships in Zagreb. At that time, the eldest sister in the women's table tennis team was Wang Nan and the big devil Zhang Yining. Before, no matter how hard Guo Yue tried, he couldn't defeat these two big god-level figures. But Guo Yue did not have a psychological obstacle because of this, but became more and more frustrated and courageous. It was also at this World Championship that Guo Yue defeated Zhang Yining in the semi-finals, and then defeated Li Xiaoxia in the final to win the women's singles championship, and relied on this result to qualify for the Beijing Olympic Games.
Since Guo Yue defeated Zhang Yining, she has become a star of hope after Wang Nan and Zhang Yining in the national table tennis team. At the same time, she also jumped to the first place in the ITTF world rankings.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Guo Yue won a bronze medal in the women's singles competition and a gold medal in the women's team final.
Although she failed to win the women's singles title at the Beijing Olympics, Guo Yue quickly ushered in a favorable situation. On the one hand, Wang Nan announced his retirement shortly after the Beijing Olympics due to his age and injury. Zhang Yining also retired to the jianghu after winning two gold medals in women's singles and women's team at the 2009 National Games. In this way, Guo Yue naturally became the captain of the national table tennis women's team and provoked the national women's table tennis banner.
In 2012, Guo Yue participated in the Olympic Games for the third time. However, Guo Yue, who picked the banner of national table tennis, did not get the opportunity to participate in the women's singles competition. Why? We'll talk about that in a moment. Fortunately, she participated in the women's team, and in the end, she helped the national table tennis team win the women's team championship, which was also her second Olympic championship.
At this time, Guo Yue is still the most powerful player in the national team, and she is also at her peak. Just when everyone thought that Guo Yue would become the new leader of the national table tennis team, after the Olympic Games, the national team removed Guo Yue.
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For the matter of Guo Yue's removal, her coach Shi Zhihao had said as early as before: "Guo Yue's arrogance and arrogance are more serious. ”
Guo Yue's relationship with Shi Zhihao was not harmonious, and it was an open matter. Guo Yue was originally a table tennis player trained by Lu Yuansheng, and after Lu Yuansheng retired, Shi Zhihao became Guo Yue's new coach. However, Shi Zhihao found that Guo Yue had many shortcomings. For example, everyone is training, but Guo Yue will leave at the point, and he is not willing to spend too much time on training. In addition, Guo Yue also believes that he is also a world champion and deserves equal pay with Wang Nan. After not being satisfied, he often refused to participate in the game under the pretext of injury. Coupled with Guo Yue's young fame, she is very proud and arrogant, posing as an old qualification.
Guo Yue's various behaviors made Shi Zhihao feel a headache. Coupled with the fact that Guo Yue is untamed and very rebellious, Shi Zhihao often has a rather helpless feeling about her, and the two are also very unhappy.
Of course, Shi Zhihao is dissatisfied, and another reason is that Guo Yue is indeed a talented player, but her foundation is not stable, and in many major competitions, she is easy to lose points. This also made Shi Zhihao very distrustful of her. At the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, Shi Zhihao did not use her world champion, but instead let Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning, who did not have much experience in the competition, compete. As a result, both were defeated. After Guo Yue sat on the cold bench that time, his heart was extremely aggrieved, and he has been devastated ever since.
When Guo Yue was at his lowest, Shi Zhihao did not give enough comfort, but rudely gave the punishment of a six-month ban.
In 2012, Kong Linghui succeeded Shi Zhihao as Guo Yue's coach.
At this time, Guo Yue was quite negative because he was afraid of the game. In addition, the injuries are getting worse and worse, so they often do not participate in training on the grounds of illness. Coupled with Guo Yue's lack of communication, there were many misunderstandings between her and Kong Linghui, so Kong Linghui did not have a good face for her, and finally in 2014, Kong Linghui let her leave the national team.
Guo Yue, who became famous at a young age, should have had a more brilliant future in his sports career. However, no one expected that she was actually just a different firework. When it is brilliant, it shocks everyone, and when it disappears, it is like a meteor that is fleeting. Whether this is Guo Yue's own problem or the reason for the coach, there is no accurate answer.
Fortunately, after Leaving the national team, Guo Yue adjusted her mentality and first went to Tsinghua University to study for an MBA at the School of Economics and Management, and later she was invited to participate in many variety shows. In the new life, Guo Yue still lives very wonderfully.