After five years of waiting, the Tokyo Olympics are about to open, but they have ushered in a parting: 45-year-old Belarusian samsonov announced his retirement on July 8.
Old Sa did not have the opportunity to equal the record set by Person, Seiffer and others to participate in the Olympic Games seven times, and golfers are also very sorry, after all, in the last competition, the 40-year-old Old Sa also reached the final four.
However, there is another veteran who is still strong, just a few days ago after his 58th birthday, Luxembourg veteran Ni Xialian was happy: very much looking forward to starting the fifth Olympic journey!
In the women's singles competition of the 2019 European Games, Ni Xialian won the bronze medal and jumped to an old high, happy like a child. At the age of 56, the Tokyo Olympics singles ticket gets, and it is enough to praise himself.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Ni Xialian stood on the Olympic field for the first time, and at the age of 37, she ranked eighth in the world.
Born in Shanghai, grew up in Shanghai, entered the national team from the Shanghai team at the age of 16, and won the women's team and mixed doubles world championship at the age of 20.
Quitting the national team to Europe, it is another few decades, a stubble of young people emerges, the International Table Tennis Federation wave of reform, Ni Xialian's mentality is very good: how to change how to adapt!
Entered the national team, from the straight plate positive glue to one side of the positive glue and one side of the long glue, the straight shot long glue inverted board full attack type of play, Ni Xialian granules played very slippery, the first two years changed to anti-glue: just play!
Lip service is said to conform to the development of the times, the hand kung fu is very honest, and if you are not careful, you will use a particularly ancient technique. I heard that Ni Xialian changed back to the granules, the reason is very simple: the score is easy!
Speaking of breaking records, Malone once said lightly: "When you are older, you have played for a long time." Talking about age, in front of the big sister, Ma Long is still a small character, the Chinese captain must be modest, breaking the record is not such a natural thing as punching in and brushing miles.
At the 2017 Austrian Open, 54-year-old Ni Xialian defeated 19-year-old Japanese chipper Hashimoto Inaka in seven sets, and the whole game took 1 hour and 34 minutes, setting a record for the length of time in the Open era.
Ni Xialian thinks that she is an optimist, always happy, playing at this age, but also let go of enjoyment, "play the best level in the game." ”
Compared with mentality and experience, The European chicks are by no means Ni Xialian's opponents, and the kick-off is not good for the whole person to catch up with the foot -
Golfers love to watch Uncle He Zhiwen teach European boys to be people, and Ni Xialian and European girls play ball, just like Ni Sister summed up: table tennis, very profound, that is a game of chess!