In May 2006, in the pig pen of a farmer in Pantao Village, Zhengding County, Hebei Province, a young man in sportswear was carrying a pot of pig food and was busy feeding pigs there.
The next morning, the young man went to the melon field with a hoe again, and asked the eldest sister next to him doubtfully: How can there be grass in this melon field? You say that there is grass on the prairie, so why is there no melon?
This man, who does not seem to have done farm work at all, actually has a lot of talent, he is the 2004 Athens Olympics table tennis men's doubles champion - Chen Xuan.
How could a good Olympic champion suddenly appear in the countryside to raise pigs? Today, we will reveal this "happy time" of Chen Xuan.
Chen Xuan was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province in 1983, because of his playfulness from an early age, Chen Xuan, who was difficult to make progress in cultural learning, was sent by his father to an amateur sports school to learn to play table tennis early.
Chen Xuan, who wanted to study in sports school, soon showed a talent that was superior to ordinary people, coupled with a brain and a bright mind, and soon became the leader of his peers, and also got the attention of the coach.
It is said that when Chen Xuan was 12 years old, he was already famous in the Nantong table tennis industry, and he was a lonely and defeat-like existence among his peers, and then he was selected to the Jiangsu provincial team.
After three years of training in the provincial team, Chen Xuan's skills became more and more exquisite, and he repeatedly achieved good results in domestic competitions, and was officially selected for the national youth team in 1999.
Just when his family and coaches were expecting Chen Xuan to gain a firm foothold in the national youth team and seek higher development, he was actually expelled from the national youth team and returned to the provincial team, and this time was only 18 days after he joined the national youth team.
As for the reason, it is because of his hot temper and cannot control his emotions.
It is said that after Chen Xuan entered the youth team, he lost all the time in a team game, and as a result, he was depressed and directly folded the racket into two pieces in public.
You must know who can enter the national youth team is not the dragon phoenix among the people, who is not the genius teenager in their respective locations, everyone has a temper, but those who dare to throw the racket like this, Chen Xuan is really the first.
Chen Xuan's behavior completely touched the management bottom line of the national youth team, and then the coach announced that it would be returned to the provincial team. (Early 1999)
If you are an ordinary person, you may be seriously frustrated by this situation and even make progress in your career. But Chen Xuan is really good, returned to the provincial team to play for more than a year, and was once again drafted to the second team of the national team with excellent strength and excellent results.
Will Chen Xuan, who has already been expelled from the national team once, restrain his personality and practice well? As a result, the dude committed another crime.
In just over half a year after being selected for the second national team, Chen Xuan violated management requirements and went out with several roommates to play until two or three o'clock in the morning before returning to the dormitory, and was soon discovered by the coaching team.
If you make a mistake and admit it well, the coach may give you the opportunity to change it. However, the stubborn Chen Xuan, under the questioning of the coach, did not admit his mistake, which also made the coach extremely annoyed, and then announced his expulsion from the national second team again. (October 2000)
During the 2002 Table Tennis Super League, although Chen Xuan left the national team for more than a year, his personal strength was still online, and he defeated Kong Linghui, Liu Guozheng and Qin Zhijian.
Chen Xuan, who performed in this way, was once again favored by the national team and was directly drafted into the national table tennis team in November of the same year.
In September 2003, Chen Xuan officially represented the national table tennis team in the Korea Table Tennis Open, when he just turned 20 years old.
Don't look at the first time to participate in the international competition, but the fierce Chen Xuan is a little 'not afraid of life', after five levels and six will directly play to the men's singles final, and finally lost 2:4 to Marlene, won the runner-up; but in the men's doubles event, he cooperated with Marlene to win the final championship.
The style of the ball is fierce, full of passion, and the fierce-eyed Chen Xuan has made the fans remember this young man with a gold and a silver result.
Just over two months after the end of the Korean Open, Chen Xuan once again partnered with Marlene to participate in the ITTF Tour, and swept the opponent 4:0 in the final to win the championship again.
In just one year, Chen Xuan won two gold medals, and his world ranking also reached the fifth place.
By the time of the Athens Olympic team in 2004, Chen Xuan, who played well, became the "savior" of the Chinese men's table tennis team, and in the case of many big brothers losing successively, he resisted the pressure and joined hands with Marlene to win the men's doubles Olympic gold medal.
In those years, Chen Xuan was the absolute core of the Chinese men's table tennis doubles project, not only known as the "doubles king", but even had the saying that "the doubles project won the world".
How could such a player with a glorious resume in the national team suddenly be sent to the countryside to raise pigs less than a year after the end of the Athens Olympic Games?
The reason for this is still the old problem, hot temper, can not control the emotions.
As a table tennis player, in fact, everyone wants to win the singles individual world championship, which is even more of an obsession for Chen Xuan, who is known as the "doubles king", and he wants to prove that his singles are also the world's top.
However, Chen Xuan's playing style is too fierce, blindly attacking will lead to weak defense, so it has been difficult to win the championship honor in the singles event.
At the beginning of 2006, Chen Xuan represented Chinese men's table tennis in the Asian Cup, and the men's singles event reached the final final, against Wang Hao.
Maybe because he wanted to win too much, Chen Xuan was under a lot of pressure and held his breath in his heart, but he still failed to defeat Wang Hao, and finally lost 2:4.
After losing, Chen Xuan's emotions were out of control, not only fell the racket on the spot, but even rushed over and kicked the billboard, and then kicked down the chair next to the playing field.
You should know that at this time, Chen Xuan represents the national team, his words and deeds also represent the national image, in foreign competitions, the result of these excessive behaviors in public, it is indeed very inappropriate, after all, there are a bunch of media reporters on the sidelines watching it.
The national table tennis team also reacted quickly to the bad influence caused by Chen Xuan, not only asking him to apologize to the people of the whole country, but also punishing him with six months of observation, a fine, and being sent to the countryside to accept labor reform. (I almost ushered in my third experience of being expelled from the national team)
On May 11, 2006, Chen Xuan, who had made a mistake, accompanied by a media reporter, went to Pantao Village, Zhengding County, Hebei Province, to formally undergo labor reform.
The reason why there will be media reporters following is because Chen Xuan's decentralization and transformation will be made into a documentary by CCTV, and it must be broadcast in the prime time of the CCTV5 sports column, so that the people of the whole country can see Chen Xuan in the labor reform.
It is precisely for the above reasons that in the early summer of 2006, an Olympic champion came to Pantao Village, who helped his fellow villagers do farm work every day, raising pigs to feed pigs, hoeing the ground and hoeing grass, watering irrigation...
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After undergoing labor reform, Chen Xuan returned to the national team and won gold medals in many international competitions, and officially retired in 2013, ending his career as a player.
After retiring from the army, Chen Xuan first served as the head coach of the provincial team in the Jiangsu team for several years, and then was selected into the national team coaching team in 2018, and became the head coach of the famous table tennis player Xu Xin.