Born in 1988 in Anshan, Liaoning Province, Guo Yue was once an outstanding player in the Chinese ping-pong team, but Guo Yue was asked to withdraw from the national team during the fierce elimination of the table tennis team.
In fact, Guo Yue's withdrawal from the national team has long been a precursor, And Guo Yue's coach Shi Zhihao once pointed out in an interview that Guo Yue's cultural level is too low, hindering the improvement of his competitive level.
After retiring from the army, Guo Yue was admitted to Tsinghua University and completed his gorgeous turn.
So did Shi Zhihao and Kong Linghui, who were famous professional teachers in China, look at the wrong person? Has Guo Yue proved his quality with practical actions?
From young fame to Olympic champion
Northeast China is a fertile land with hard-working, enterprising people. Northeast China is rich in music masters and athletes, in the entire northeast environment, there have been a large number of sports stars, in the Chinese table tennis world, Northeast dialect has almost become the "official language".
Guo Yue is a northeasterner, and she has shown a good athletic talent since she was a child.
Guo Yue was born in 1988 to an ordinary working-class family in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, and Guo Yue was just six years old when his father sent him to the local sports school in Anshan City. The father's idea is very simple, that is, he wants his child to have a healthy body after the exercise of sports school.
But what Guo Yue's father did not expect was that after Guo Yue entered the sports school, the teachers of the sports school found that Guo Yue was very talented in playing table tennis. After only two years of training, Guo Yue became the best among students of the same age.
In 1996, at the age of 8, Guo Yue participated in the outstanding junior table tennis tournament in Liaoning Province, and Guo Yue was selected as an athlete in the provincial sports school because of his good talent. Guo Yue is very proud of the success of this competition, and she has also been repeatedly praised and encouraged by teachers and parents.
For entering liaoning provincial sports school, parents are also very supportive, and Guo Yue is also very happy, because she will enter a higher platform from now on.
Guo Yue's home is in Anshan, Liaoning Province, some distance from Shenyang, where the Liaoning Provincial Sports School is located. At only eight years old, Guo Yue has never left his parents for such a long time, and when he went to Shenyang, he was still in love with his home.
In order for Guo Yue to be able to adapt better, Guo Yue's parents visited Guo Yue at least three times a week when Guo Yue had just left home, and each time they would bring Guo Yue a lot of delicious food, change of clothes and large bags to send to school. After all, Guo Yue is a small child, the adaptability is very strong, parents see More and more smiles on Guo Yue's face after half a year, and they are relieved to let Guo Yue continue to study and exercise in the provincial sports school, and slowly reduce the number of visits to Guo Yue.
Because of Guo Yue's talent, good physical fitness and usual hard training, her results are far ahead even in the provincial team.
At the end of 1999, Guo Jump was only one year old at the provincial sports school, and won the championship in the national junior table tennis audition. Guo Yue was just 11 years old this year, and she was soon selected by the coach of the training team in Beijing to train in the national second team.
The purpose of the national second team training camp is to let her represent China in an Asian table tennis invitational tournament, and let her represent China in this competition, which is a huge test for an eleven-year-old girl.
However, at the age of eleven, Guo Yue successfully won the Intercontinental Invitational Championship, after which the coaches of the national second team saw that she had the talent to play table tennis and left her in the national training second team. Guo Yue thus became the youngest national athlete in the national sports team, and Guo Yue was only eleven years old this year.
Although the national second team is not as good as the national first team, the gap with the first team in terms of strength is not very large, but it is small in the grade and is the reserve force of the national table tennis team. Guo Yue, who entered the national second team, was guided by famous teachers, her table tennis skills became more and more mature, and her playing style gradually began to become her own unique "secret weapon".
2004 was a brilliant turning point in Guo Yue's life, and this year she truly embarked on her own glorious road.
The 2004 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Doha, Qatar, and the goal of the Chinese table tennis team in this world table tennis championships is to win all the gold medals as much as possible as before.
In fact, at the level of the Chinese table tennis team, the champion of the world championship has been able to get at his fingertips, and on the field, the most fierce competition is often not the duel between Chinese athletes and foreign far-flung mobilization, but the competition for medals by athletes within the Chinese team.
After helping the Chinese team win the 47th World Table Tennis Women's Team Championship, Guo Yue defeated Zhang Rui, who was similar to her strength, with a score of 3-1, and won the women's table tennis singles championship at the 47th World Table Tennis Championships.
This year, Guo Yue was just sixteen years old, and she also became the youngest world champion in the history of Chinese table tennis. In the same year, Guo Yue participated in the ITTF Professional Tour, and in the finals, Guo Yue played well and won the championship, becoming the "double champion" of the table tennis industry at the age of sixteen, which was a miracle in the table tennis industry that year.
At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Guo Yue cooperated with Niu Jianfeng, the top table tennis player at the time, to participate in the table tennis women's doubles competition. In the case of a successful semi-final with the then famous Chinese player Zhang Yining Wang Nan, she fought with Niu Jianfeng all the way and finally won the bronze medal in women's doubles in Athens in 2004 with a 4-3 victory.
In this competition, Guo Yue and Niu Jianfeng lost to the "double stone combination" Li Enshi and Shi Enmei. But as China's second-seeded player, they defeated South Korea's "double gold combinations" Kim Kyung-eun and Kim Foley, and also won a doubles bronze medal for the country.
In 2008, Guo Yue became a team player of the Chinese women's table tennis team, she made many achievements in the team competition, became the dinghai god needle in the team, and in 2008 she won her first Women's Team Olympic Championship. In that year, she defeated Singapore's famous Li Jiawei and won a bronze medal for the country.
In this year, the Chinese women's table tennis bag won all the awards in the table tennis women's singles competition. To know that Singapore's famous Li Jiawei defeated Wang Nan at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Guo Yueneng broke out at a critical moment and won the last bronze medal, and the Chinese women's team can pocket all the women's singles medals, Guo Yue is indispensable.
In 2012, Guo Yue entered the Olympic Games for the third time, and after many years of competition, she won the double title at the age of sixteen and was already a member of China's "veteran".
As the world's most well-known, most professional and most stringent event, the Olympic Games have been the dream of many people to be able to step into the Olympic Games. At the age of twenty-four, Guo Yue had already participated in the Olympic Games three times and achieved impressive results.
The Olympic Games are held only once every four years, and athletes are difficult to keep their bodies at their peak because of their physical functions, and the general Olympic career is only two Olympic Games.
Because Guo Yue became famous earlier, his body and age were still in the "year of fighting" when he competed in the Olympic Games three times, which is a great luck for an athlete.
In China, those who can compete in the Olympic Games three times are some legends in the sports world, these people are few but famous, Wang Nan, Kong Linghui, Wang Liqin, these are all important figures in the table tennis world, and Guo Yue has become the fourth legendary athlete of the Three Olympic Games after these three people.
In 2012, Guo Yue's athleticism reached the peak of her life, in the women's team competition, she and Li Xiaoxia, Ding Ning combined to defeat Japan 3-0, successfully defended the champion of the Chinese women's table tennis team, and also won the second Olympic gold medal in her life.
From a talented girl all the way to the Olympic champion, in the course of Guo Yue's life for more than two decades, her life is enough to make other people envious. But even the most perfect life will have twists and turns, and even the most fortunate people will have bad luck moments, and we observe the other side of Guo Yue's life from Guo Yue's wonderful life.
Being scolded by coaches for not having culture
In the inherent mind, the athlete seems to be a developed motor cell, while other minds are not active. In fact, an excellent athlete needs to have a variety of qualities, quality training and cultural accomplishment is an indispensable one.
The cultural quality of the top athletes is also very high. Many athletes can also become talents in various industries after changing careers, thanks to their excellent cultural literacy.
When Guo Yue grew up, the two most powerful people in Chinese table tennis were Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, who were the best table tennis players in China and the world at that time. Wang Nan and Zhang Yining have reached the peak of table tennis in terms of personal skills, psychological quality and cultural accomplishment.
At that time, Guo Yue was regarded as the successor of the two coaches Shi Zhihao and Kong Linghui in the team, and they saw that Guo Yue had the shadow of Deng Yaping, the famous player of the table tennis generation.
Guo Yue's style of ball is very fierce, the opponent is not easy to defend, and generally the opponent is pressed by Guo Yue. In the case of taking the lead, the opponent was quickly disrupted by Guo Yue, and when the rhythm was chaotic, the opponent would naturally be quickly defeated by Guo Yue.
Guo Yue has always been trained by the team as the successor of Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, and among the six most powerful main players of the national team table tennis team at that time, only she and Wang Nan have defeated the "Big Devil" Zhang Yining. Guo Yue was also a legendary presence in the team at that time.
Guo Yue retired after the three-game Olympics, and according to her state, she could have played for another two or three years, and many fans deeply regretted her retirement.
Chinese table tennis star Wang Nan can still win gold medals in the Olympic Games at the age of thirty, Zhang Yining also chose to end after reaching her peak, no one is her opponent, and she should have seen Guo Yue become the "first sister" of Chinese table tennis in the next step. However, after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, with the retirement of Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, Guo Yue, who should have led the Chinese table tennis team to create glory again, began to disappear gradually.
Many fans discovered this at the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, when Wang Nan and Zhang Yining had already entered a state of retirement, and Guo Yue was only 22 years old. At the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, Guo Yue should have been the absolute main force in the team, but coach Shi Zhihao pinned his hopes on Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen.
In this game, shi Zhihao's attempt to build the double main force of Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen was successfully blocked by Singapore's Feng Tianwei. Women's table tennis suffered Waterloo in Moscow, and the Cobiron Cup, which lasted for 17 years, changed hands to other countries.
In 2010, Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia were the most powerful athletes in the team, and Coach Shi Zhihao did not take them as the main force, but put Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, who were not mature enough, into the position of the main force, which was a failure in coach Shi Zhihao's life. This failure is something that neither coaches nor athletes want to see and that they need to share.
After the loss of the game, Shi Zhihao also said his reasons for not reusing Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia, who have higher strength in this competition: Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia's performance was not stable. Although Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen are still lacking in strength, they have been growing steadily and playing steadily, and this failure will not make Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen lose from now on, but can exercise their competition experience.
When Shi Zhihao, who has been a coach for many years, has seen hundreds of athletes, in Shi Zhihao's eyes, the state and thoughts of athletes Shi Zhihao are known at a glance.
As a famous instructor and coach of the national team, Shi Zhihao is already the world's top presence in regulating the athletes' presence status, techniques and skills. As a coach of Shi Zhihao, what he values most is the psychological state of the athletes, followed by the skills and abilities of the athletes.
An athlete being able to become a world champion once or twice is already a great achievement for himself and for ordinary people. However, the coaches of the national table tennis team have higher requirements for table tennis players, which is also the secret of China's table tennis being able to maintain the world's first place for many years.
Only stricter and higher requirements will lead to better and more powerful athletes, which is almost an unshakable "iron law" in sports competition.
Shi Zhihao also said to the media that although Guo Yue has participated in the Olympic Games twice, she does not have the conditions to become a core athlete. This almost fixed Guo Yue's sex, and after the Kobylon Cup in Moscow, Guo Yue has not adjusted himself.
He retired early in 2014, when Kong Linghui announced the decision as the head coach of the table tennis team, he said his legs were shaking. Once a talented girl of the country, she withdrew from the national team at her peak, which is not only a huge loss for Guo Yue himself, for the international table tennis team, but also for the country.
So that Guo Yue failed to become the core figure of the national table tennis team, the main reason is still Guo Yue's "no culture". In 2012, Shi Zhihao alluded to Guo Yue's low level of education and limited the improvement of his competitive level. So why does a low level of education limit the economic level? Wonder why sports rely on culture to elevate limitations.
In world-class competitions, the duels between the masters of a project are often a fraction of a centimeter, and many of them rely on the accumulation of strength and the stable play of the scene to become the world's top existence. In the showdown between the strong and the strong, culture plays a key role, and culture can calm people at key moments and find the most accurate path.
And looking at Guo Yue's game, Guo Yuesheng is fierce in the style of the ball, but it cannot be rigid and soft. Appear impatient at critical moments and can't quickly calm down and make adjustments. As a top-level athlete, you must minimize the influence of your emotions on yourself, which is the quality that a good athlete needs to have.
Guo Yue has the talent and intuition to play table tennis, but the key moment of the table tennis duel is the confrontation between brain power and psychology. Guo Yue's tactical skills and understanding and understanding of opponents are far from those of famous players such as Wang Nan and Zhang Yining. Zhang Yining once said such a sentence: "The game has not yet started, when I shook hands with her, I knew that she had lost." ”
This is not only the confidence of famous generals in their own abilities, but also the observation of opponents penetrating into the bone marrow, it is a pity that Guo Yue cannot do this because of the limitations of his own culture.
Although Guo Yue's playing style has the fierce "shadow" of Deng Yaping, Deng Yaping is not only fierce. Deng Yaping has unique skills in the use of tactics and her grasp of her own mentality.
Deng Yaping said later that when she played, she always "cut" one ball at a time. Every ball goes to play intently. When she sees that the other person's face begins to change, she realizes that she may have to change tactics or the other person's thinking has changed.
As a core athlete, what you must do is to cultivate harshly on yourself, although Guo Yue is an excellent athlete and a core athlete may be one step away, but it is this step away, it may be difficult to ascend to the sky.
After retiring from the army, he was admitted to Tsinghua University and transformed into Bai Fumei
Although Guo Yue cannot be the leader of the Chinese table tennis team in the table tennis team, it does not prevent him from playing his own strengths in other directions. 26 is a wonderful age, others may have just graduated from college, but she has already played three Olympic games, fame and so on. Although she was unable to climb the highest mountain in her mind, she was only 26 years old in her life, and she still had a lot of time to do, not necessarily without greater achievements.
After retiring from the army, Guo Yue left the sports school and served as a coach for a while. In order to develop better, she got an MBA admission letter from Tsinghua University after a period of study, and successfully obtained a master's degree a few years later.
This seems to be a response to Shi Zhihao's uncultured evaluation of her. After graduating from Tsinghua University, he successfully joined a financial management company in Beijing and became an elite white-collar worker in the business world. The cross-line from the sports world to the business has allowed Guo Yue to live a normal white-collar life, and she has also begun to find her own development path.
After engaging in business, she made good use of her original world champion status, participating in some variety shows and doing some promotions from time to time, which made her feel very accomplished.
At this time, her personality also began to change slowly. When in the sports team, Guo Yue is suitable for being a "Cheng biting gold", although there is no culture, but the victory is in the "fierce style of the ball", "three axes" down the opponent is confused, a set of serial hits the opponent is quickly defeated.
But once Guo Yue encountered an opponent who was stronger than himself, the "three-plate axe" was resisted, and Guo Yue no longer had any skills, and could only fight nonsense, which was the most obvious shortcoming of Guo Yue, which is why Coach Shi Zhihao has not put Guo Yue in the main position of the national team.
After Guo Yue arrived in society, after some study and exercise, he gradually understood a lot of truths. She began to become more and more "soft" and no longer competed as she had been on the field before. In life, Guo Yue gradually learned how to cooperate and share risks to achieve a win-win situation.
Liu Guoliang, head coach of the national table tennis team, once said that he can be a madman on the field, and he should not be domineering when he plays the ball, but he should be low-key in life. This is the reason why the Chinese table tennis team can always be strong, the Chinese table tennis team is not only about technology, hard work, talent but also about culture.
Guo Yue used to be a tomboy in sports school, with short hair and a straightforward and cheerful personality. After returning to society, she also began to gradually return to female characteristics. She began to grow long hair, practice wearing high heels, makeup, and Guo Yue, who was originally a tomboy, completed the "great transformation" after working for a few years and became a "white rich beauty".
Guo Yue is usually very busy, she not only has to go to work, but also attend some commercial activities after work, and will also sell goods through the live broadcast room, which can be said that life is very colorful.
Unfortunately, Guo Yue's life partner has not been found, and he has failed through several blind dates. However, Guo Yue was very open-minded, and she felt that the other half of her life must be waiting for her on some day in the future. Her own life is also very colorful.
In her spare time, she will still pick up the ping-pong racket that once made her scenery infinite and make her sad, skillfully playing ping-pong back and forth, recalling the green years.
Guo Yue's life can be said to be infinite, although she has not climbed the highest peak, but she is already much luckier than many athletes. Years of sports career has made her learn a lot, after fading the halo can continue to live an ordinary life, which is the life that many successful athletes yearn for, and it is also the reward won by Guo Yue after his hard work.
Guo Yue's frustration may be that she paid too much attention to the training of sports quality, did not have enough time for cultural cultivation in elementary school, and eventually regretted not being able to become the core player of the Chinese table tennis team.
But relatively speaking, Guo Yue finally completed the final counterattack, became a master's degree graduate of Tsinghua University, and became a white-collar elite in the city. Guo Yue's failure and success are already part of his life, fortunately Guo Yue has a big heart, and she has not given up so she can have a better life in the future.