Recently, Zhao Yunlei, the Olympic champion of the national badminton and achieved a Grand Slam in both women's doubles and mixed doubles, was inducted into the World BWF Hall of Fame. When Zhao Yunlei interacted with the fans, she revealed that she was no longer coaching in the national team. In Guoyu's current coaching lineup, only the men's doubles head coach Zhang Jun is an Olympic champion. And Li Xuerui's husband and former men's singles national player Qiao Bin gradually gained a foothold in the men's singles coaching team.
The BWF announced on June 21 that Yunlei Zhao was inducted into the BWF Hall of Fame. Zhao Yunlei holds two Olympic gold medals and five world championship gold medals, and she won two consecutive mixed doubles and women's doubles titles at the London 2012 Olympic Games, becoming the only athlete in the country to win two gold medals in one Olympic Games so far. Having won the Mixed Doubles title at the 2011 World Championships and the Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles titles at the 2014 World Championships, the 2015 World Championships defended both events, becoming the first athlete to win a double at two consecutive World Championships. Zhao Yunlei said that she is very honored to be inducted into the BWF Hall of Fame, which is a spur to her future work and hopes to do more meaningful things.
Some fans asked Zhao Yunlei: "Is Sister Xiong still coaching in the national team?" Zhao Yunlei also replied: "No! "I personally confirmed that I have stepped down and am no longer coaching in the national team. Zhao Yunlei withdrew from the national team after the 2016 Rio Olympics and gradually withdrew from the arena. In January 2019, she returned to Guoyu as the women's doubles coach of Guoyu I team, assisting her mentor Pan Li in training in the women's doubles team. In that year's BWF Tour, Zhao Yunlei also sat on the sidelines and gave off-field guidance to the young players of the national feathers. However, after the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, Zhao Yunlei and Guoyu's intersection became less and less, and she lived in Xiamen with her husband Hong Wei and never went out to compete with Guoyu again. Today, she has also confirmed that she has left the national team and is no longer a coach, but she has not left badminton and still contributes to the development of badminton.
Today, the head coach of the women's doubles group is South Korean foreign coach Kang Kyung-jin, and Zhao Yunlei's mentor Pan Li has also returned to the team. However, in the current national feather coaching team, only the doubles head coach Zhang Jun is an Olympic champion. After the end of the Tang You Cup in May, due to the poor performance of the men's singles of guoyu, Zhang Jun, the chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association, said that he would adjust the men's singles coaching team, the head coach of the national singles was Xia Xuanze, and the head coach of the men's singles was Chen Yu. However, in recent tournaments, the men's singles players on the sidelines have been coached by Qiao Bin, the husband of women's singles Olympic champion Li Xuerui.
Qiao Bin, who is still less than 30 years old, retired from the army at the beginning of 2019 and became a coach, seconded to the national junior team at the end of the year, then coached in the national youth team, and after a year of coaching in the national training team, became the assistant coach of the men's singles group of the national team. At the Asian Championships in April this year, Qiao Bin ushered in his debut as an independent off-court coach, and Weng Hongyang made his way from the qualifiers to the final. After the end of the Tangyou Cup in May, the Thailand Open, the Indonesian Masters, the Indonesia Open, the men's singles are Qiao Bin as the off-field guidance, Li Shifeng broke into the Thailand Open men's singles final, Zhao Junpeng broke into the Indonesian Open men's singles final, this series of achievements let Qiao Bin stand firm in the national team men's singles coaching team. Although in the previous national competition, Qiao Bin failed to be successfully elected as the head coach of the men's singles, but as the national feathers want to adjust the men's singles coach, Qiao Bin's guidance has borne fruit, and perhaps he will bear greater responsibility.