At the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan, when the table tennis competition entered the final of the women's singles, the eyes of countless Chinese people were focused on the chinese table tennis star Deng Yaping, and almost no one thought that Deng Yaping would lose this game. However, it backfired, and in the end, Deng Yaping lost to Japan's Tomori Oyama with a score of 1-3.
But to everyone's surprise, the Japanese player had a Chinese face. Tomori Koyama used to be a major player in the Chinese women's table tennis team, but when she played against Deng Yaping that year, she kept shouting "Yosai" during the competition, and after the game, she shouted with a victorious posture: "I won the Asian Games championship for the Japanese team, and I am very proud." Such a confused statement made many people feel puzzled and angry. What happened to make Tomori Koyama, who was originally Chinese, say this?
Originally known as He Zhili, From Shanghai, China, to an ordinary family in 1964, no one expected her to have such an impact on the table tennis scenes in China and Japan. He Zhili, who has been practicing table tennis since the age of 7, successfully passed the selection of the national team after ten years with the sport and officially became a member of the Chinese women's table tennis team. A year later, 18-year-old He Zhili won the women's singles championship in the national competition and became a rare seed player in China's table tennis industry.
In this way, He Zhili has braved thorns in international competitions and won many honors such as Asian championships and world championship team championships. The most important thing in he Zhili's heart at that time was to play ball and win the championship, and she was also working hard towards this goal, but what she did not expect was that the road to success was so bumpy.
At that time, there was a "let the ball" atmosphere in the team, but in He Zhili's view, this was a crooked wind, and she did not care much about it when she advocated playing with her real ability. It wasn't until she experienced this sort of thing firsthand in 1987 that she understood how much it affected her. The 39th World Table Tennis Championships was held in New Delhi in 1987, He Zhili went out with the Chinese table tennis team, and for the gold medal they were bound to win, He Zhili also felt that she was one step closer to the dream of world champion.
That year, He Zhili rushed to the semifinals, and later in the women's singles final four, He Zhili's opponent was Guan Jianhua, a friend and teammate, and Dai Lili, another player in the national table tennis team, played against South Korean team member Liang Yingzi. Considering how to ensure a smooth victory, the coaching staff made a decision to let He Zhili give the ball to Guan Jianhua in the game so that guan Jianhua, who was more powerful, could have a better chance of winning in the final.
He Zhili, who had originally disapproved of "giving way", was very surprised by this, and although she superficially agreed to this request, she was still unconvinced in her heart. At that time, He Zhili's coach was Sun Meiying, and she also hated this atmosphere like He Zhili, so she said to He Zhili, "It doesn't matter, you just have to exert your strongest strength and strive to win the championship, and the rest don't worry." In this way, with the support of the coach, He Zhili performed bravely in the confrontation with Guan Jianhua, sweeping Guan Jianhua 3-0 and successfully entering the final. In the final, South Korea's Liang Yingzi also became her defeated, and He Zhili finally completed her dream of "world champion".
"Not listening to orders" needs to bear the consequences, although she successfully won the women's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, but After He Zhili returned to China, she wrote a review because she did not obey the arrangements of the coaching staff. Later, as the number one in the world, she was not even selected for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. At that time, the external explanation was that He Zhili's performance in foreign wars was not outstanding, so comprehensive consideration did not allow her to participate in the Olympic Games. But many people are speculating that perhaps it was because of the handicap storm a year ago that He Zhili lost the opportunity to play in the Olympic Games.
He Zhili was resentful in her heart and felt that she had been treated unfairly. The year after the Seoul Olympics ended, Ho announced her retirement. Soon after, He Zhili went to Japan and changed her nationality to Japanese, and her name was changed from the previous He Zhili to Tomori Koyama. Tomori Oyama, who settled in Japan, soon completed her life's major events and married Hideyuki Oyama, the son of the president of the Osaka Japan-China Friendship Association, and the union of the two is also regarded as a symbol of "Sino-Japanese friendship".
Although she has formed her own family, Tomoi Koyama is still worried about table tennis, so she chose to make a comeback and join the Japanese table tennis team. Tomori Koyama returned to the table tennis scene with a new identity and name, which caused a heated discussion among many fans in China. Then in the 1994 Asian Games, she unexpectedly defeated Deng Yaping, and repeatedly shouted "Yoxi" on the field, which also made many people call her a "traitorous thief". But Tomoi Oyama ignored the evaluation of the outside world, only buried her head in the ball, and made a lot of contributions to the Japanese table tennis scene, even the Japanese emperor praised her skills and liked to watch her play, so she became a veritable core main force of the Japanese team at that time.
The married life of Tomoru Oyama and Hideyuki Koyama was not beautiful, and within a few years of their marriage, Hideyuki Oyama, who was then a table tennis coach, was exposed to the scandal of cheating on female athletes. Faced with her husband's infidelity, Tomoi Koyama decisively chose divorce. The two did not have children, and after the divorce, Tomori Koyama chose to live alone, and did not think of finding a japanese person to marry again.
Later, due to various reasons, Tomoi Koyama retired again and transformed into a coach. In 2005, she received an invitation to return to her home country to participate in table tennis exchange activities. In the interview, Tomori Koyama said that she also regretted her decision at that time, saying that it would be better if she had not been so impulsive. However, whether it was a mistake or a regret at the beginning, today's Tomori Oyama already has another identity. Time has passed, everything that happened has become a thing of the past, and Tomori Koyama should have her own new life.