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The word "naturalization" spread throughout China as Gu Ailing, who shined in the Winter Olympics, when people recognized this group of athletes who had returned to the embrace of the motherland and put on battle robes for the motherland, they could not help but think of some regrettable existence: those Chinese athletes who had become Japanese nationals.
Gu Ailing
Chinese athletes who "naturalized" Japan have caused frequent controversy
Athletes have a short competitive career, so it is indeed common sense to want to choose a higher competitive platform, because after so long of hard training, they have embarked on a completely different life path from the public, and all their achievements need to be accepted on the field, and they cannot participate in higher-level competitions, for them, it is impossible to be willing.
However, the complex relationship between China and Japan is presumably not clear to Chinese.
Because after 14 years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in the face of the Japanese government that has not yet responded positively to the many crimes committed during the war and constantly tampered with and distorted the historical truth, it is difficult for the broad masses of Chinese people to subjectively understand this group of athletes who gave up their Chinese nationality and chose to serve Japan.
After all, sports have no borders, but athletes have nationalities.
Therefore, whenever faced with Chinese athletes who have already acquired Japanese nationality, the past Chinese people will always be more aggressive in their attitude, probably because everyone still regards them as compatriots with the same blood in their bones.
So why are we so resistant to such athletes who have been "naturalized" by Japan?
Because of the chinese concept of loyalty and righteousness that has been passed down for thousands of years, it is also because of the dark war that once swept the land of China.
Loyalty to the king and patriotism, the emphasis on righteousness over profit, the traditional concept of righteousness and profit has a far-reaching impact on the Chinese, so there are many rational but undesirable realities.
Coupled with the unforgettable ethnic hatred between China and Japan, most Chinese may have a hard time understanding those Chinese Japanese athletes emotionally.
You must know that every athlete who stands on the world sports field represents the style and expectations of the thousands of people of the motherland behind him, and he does not know how a Chinese descendant with hot blood flowing in his bones will feel in his heart when he sings the Japanese national anthem on the field.
Therefore, since these athletes have chosen to play for Japan in the year of playing, they should not still want to stand up to the status of Chinese, hoping to continue to enjoy the preferential treatment of compatriots when they return to China after retiring.
Zhang Ben Tianjie
Zhang Tianjie, a basketball teenager who immigrated from a family
Zhang Tianjie was born in 1992 in shenyang to a sports family, and many members of the family were members of the Liaoning Provincial Team.
His father, Zhang Jian, was a member of the Liaoning basketball team, his mother, Qiang Shuping, was a volleyball player, his grandfather was a fencing coach, and his uncle was a member of the badminton team.
It can be said that Zhang Tianjie's family grew up in the national sports system, they have fought hard for the motherland, but also enjoyed the convenience and wealth brought by many national sports systems, which also laid a good foundation for Zhang Tianjie's basketball career.
Zhang Ben Tianjie
Zhang Tianjie's body, pinned on his father's unfinished basketball dream, from a young age he began a variety of physical training under his father's strict training: endurance long-distance running, basic dribbling, fixed point shooting, etc., every day thunder can not move, so insisted on many years.
Finally, the mother who had been studying in Japan after retiring from the military returned, the family who had been reunited for a long time moved to Japan after a short reunion, Zhang Tianjie also began to train in Japan, and the parents made a living by opening restaurants.
In junior high school, Zhang Tianjie's height grew to 1.96cm, after joining the school basketball team, he won many honors for the school, and when he was in high school, he joined the Japanese nationality with his parents, changed his name to Zhang Bentianjie, and was selected into the Japanese youth team in 2008, becoming the first Chinese player to be naturalized by the Japanese national team.
Zhang Ben Tianjie
At the 2014 Asian Games, Japan defeated the Chinese team, in the post-match interview, Zhang Bentianjie said that he most wanted to beat the Chinese team, and today's victory also said that his choice was not wrong, this remark also set off a wave of ridicule from Chinese netizens on the Internet.
Seeing that he is getting older, Zhang Bentianjie is also married and has children in Japan, and he has publicly stated that he wants to return to China after retiring from the army, because the treatment in the Chinese market will be better.
Wang Cenjing, who was excavated for her basketball talent
Wang Cenjing, born in Tianjin in 1987, is still only in junior high school, her height has far exceeded ordinary people, but she has not undergone any professional basketball training.
Wang Xinchao hi
By chance, she was acquainted with a Japanese coach, and after further observation and testing, her basketball talent was recognized, and she was introduced to Japan to develop, and in 2003 she moved to a Japanese high school to study and train, changing her name to Wang XinChaoxi.
At this time, Wang Xinchaoxi has represented the varsity team to participate in the competition, after continuous training and practical accumulation, her basketball strength has been continuously strengthened, in 2010, she joined the Mitsubishi Electric women's basketball team, began to emerge in the Japanese league.
In June 2013, Wang Xinchaoxi, who had not yet naturalized, represented Japan in the Lithuanian Four Nations Tournament, playing in the match between China and Japan, and in August of the same year, Wang Xinchaoxi, who had joined the Japanese nationality, represented the Japanese team at the East Asian Games.
Wang Xinchao hi
The basketball women who have a very similar experience with Zhang Bentianjie, the career in the Japanese national team is not as smooth as she imagined, in the 2013 Asian Women's Basketball Championship, the Japanese team defeated the Chinese team, she imagined that she could beat the Chinese women's basketball team in the future, but this is just a good wish.
"Asian Heavy Artillery" Ren Yanli
Ren Yanli, born in Beijing in 1963, practiced javelin from an early age and later began practicing softball.
In the era when everyone was busy running for the construction of the motherland, many sports in China were in the stage of groping forward, and the construction and development of the women's softball team also went through a difficult period.
Uzu Kiriwa
As the captain and core of the national women's softball team, talent and hard work, Ren Yanli is also a lot, so she has also been heavily cultivated by the national team.
Repeated training, members run-in, the national women's softball team spent a lot of time and resources on the team to build.
Of course, these are all worth it, in the next international competition, this women's softball team has achieved extremely dazzling results, and Ren Yanli has also become famous overseas.
In 1988, Ren yanli went to Japan softball to play together, where she met a Japanese softball coach, Myoko Uzugi, and the two had a very close relationship.
Taeko Utsugi
In the face of such an excellent world-class softball player, Uzu Ki myoko began to persuade unremittingly, hoping that Ren Yanli would join Japan and strive for broader development prospects.
At the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, a face that was no longer familiar to the Chinese people appeared in the Japanese team, holding high the Japanese flag, which stabbed many fans who had always supported Chinese women's softball, because she was Ren Yanli, the captain of the Chinese women's national softball team in the 80s.
At this time, she had already joined the Japanese nationality three years ago, changed her name to Uzu Mu Lihua, and began to compete in the arena with her former teammates on the same stage, competing for medals for their respective countries.
Uzu Kiriha's life has since been divided into two watersheds.
Uzu Kiriwa
In the first half of her life, she was a meritorious player who made great contributions to the Chinese women's base, and was once sought after by fans, which was the greatest pride of her father as a veteran of the War of Resistance.
In the second half of her life, she resumed her new career in Japan, and she could change her nationality, especially the change to Japanese nationality, and her veteran father could not let go until his death, and she was once scolded as a "traitor" by the countrymen.
Perhaps remembering her former motherland, she did not agree to change her nationality before the Atlanta Olympics, so that she lost her Olympic medals, and later Uzuki Lihua was determined to defeat China, and before the match against the Chinese team, she constantly shouted and spoke out against the motherland that had raised her.
Uzu Kiriwa
Now, she has retired as a coach, alone in Japan, perhaps she wants to return to the roots, she wants to return to China to develop and live, but it is probably not so easy.
He Zhili, a former national table tennis seed
He Zhili, born in 1964 in Shanghai, China, because she liked table tennis since she was a child, she began to train hard at a very young age, training boring day after day, did not consume her love for table tennis, and later successfully became a member of the Chinese table tennis team.
Table tennis, as China's national ball, is famous all over the world, so the Chinese table tennis team has been under a lot of pressure because it cannot lose.
Tomoru Koyama
In the semi-finals of the 39th World Table Tennis Championships in 1987, in order to ensure the victory of the final, the Chinese Table Tennis Team let He Zhili obey the pre-match team arrangement and "let the ball" to her teammate Guan Jianhua, but she did not follow the instructions of the leader, but resolutely won the game and won the championship in the final final.
But that didn't offset her disobedience, and Ho was disqualified from the Seoul Olympics, which also brought her career to a low ebb.
He Zhili then fell into long-term huge psychological pressure, as well as career difficulties, in 1989 she quit the table tennis arena, with her Japanese boyfriend to live in Japan, and joined the Japanese nationality, changed her name to Tomori Oyama.
Tomoru Koyama
Unwilling to let her table tennis career end here, Tomoi Oyama began a crazy retraining, and finally made a successful comeback in 1992.
Two years later, at the Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan, she defeated Chinese players including Chen Jing, Qiao Hong and Deng Yaping to win the women's singles championship and start her new sports career.
On the podium, Tomori Oyama was no longer facing the familiar five-star red flag, but the strange Japanese flag, and what kind of five flavors and miscellaneous tastes did she have in her heart?
The sports arena is another battlefield without smoke, from athletes who want to break through the limits of the human body, but also from different countries, it is the most able to highlight the image of the people of all countries, but also the country to show their cultural business card, has extraordinary significance.
Liu Changchun (China's first Olympic player)
The sports industry of new China has gone from having nothing to the top three positions in the gold medal list today, and has gone for many years.
To this day, I can still recall how the ancestors who were once ridiculed as the sick men of East Asia single-handedly stood in a foreign country and wanted to issue a roar of Chinese on the international arena and let the world re-understand China.
Therefore, today, we can often see many domestic athletes, there is a situation of playing closed with injuries, they are fighting for their honor, but also for the honor of the motherland.
We understand the hearts of those Chinese athletes who pursue their dreams and respect their choices, but we also ask them not to easily denigrate the motherland that once gave birth to you, and we do not hope to gain the recognition and support of the Chinese people as they once did.
Because in contrast, those athletes who stick to the Chinese sports arena and are willing to sacrifice their personal honors for the team victory are more worthy of admiration, because there is no athlete who does not desire medals and does not want to leave their names in the history of world sports.
The broad masses of Chinese people should also focus on their attention, wave the flag for those national athletes who have spilled their blood for the country, and encourage them to achieve good results and compete in the style of the Chinese people.
At the same time, they are also more tolerant, because winning or losing is a common thing, as long as they have worked hard and have not failed to live up to the guidance of the coach in the boring daily training, there is nothing to beak.
All sports disputes should be left to the arena to be resolved, through the hard work of sports in various countries, the victory and defeat will be decided in an open and upright manner, so as to live up to the sweat of athletes who have been practicing hard for many years, as well as the cultivation of the motherland.
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