She was originally the daughter of a generation of famous anti-Japanese generals, but she changed her surname and joined Japan at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, she once said: "Representing the Japanese team to defeat the Chinese team is my greatest wish." At the 2004 Athens Olympics, she defeated the mainland on behalf of the Japanese team and said: "The Chinese team is very strong, but in front of the strong Japanese team, the Chinese team is vulnerable." She is The Japanese softball player Reika Uzu and the captain of the mainland softball team in the 80s, Ren Yanli.
In the Chinese of Japanese nationality, wei Qingguang, who achieved the highest and most decent achievement before naturalization, the serious Seoul Olympic champion, the national team was honorably retired, and then left behind in Japan. The most influential in China is He Zhili, but the most useful for Japan is actually Ren Yanli, whose controversy in China is actually no smaller than That of He Zhili.
Softball may not be familiar to many people, but in the 80s, China's strength in softball should not be underestimated. Ren Yanli is known as a genius in China's softball world. Her father is an anti-Japanese veteran and resolutely opposes Ren Yanli's admission to Japan, but Ren Yanli will not hesitate to break off the father-daughter relationship with his father, and she must also insist on going her own way. When Ren Yanli joined The Japanese, she was already at the end of her career as an athlete, but she still helped Japan beat the Chinese team twice at the Olympic Games.
Ren Yanli was born in 1963 in Beijing, China, and her mother died at an early age, when her father Ren Weikai pulled Ren Yanli and her sister to grow up. Due to her excellent arm strength, she was selected for the Javelin team of the Junior Gymnasium shortly after entering junior high school, and she was very athletic and loved the sport. After that, he was favored by the beijing softball team and transferred to study softball, because of his excellent softball performance, he was quickly selected for the national youth team.
In 1978, The Japanese women's softball team member Uzu Mumyoko came to China to exchange and study, and happened to be received by the team led by Ren Yanli, and the two met because of this. It can be said that Ren Yanli's departure from Japan also has a lot to do with her, and Uzu Ki myoko was the main force of the Japanese team at that time, and she later became the legendary star of the Japanese women's base "godmother".
But in this exchange, Ren Yanli did not have much communication with Uzu Mu Myoko, but Uzu Mu Myoko has become Ren Yanli's idol, Ren Yanli, like a small fan of star chasing, wrote many letters to Uzu Ki Myoko who is far away in Japan, and most of the letters expressed her admiration for "idols".
Until two years later, 17-year-old Ren Yanli followed the national team to the U17 World Softball Championship, in order to enhance their strength, the Chinese youth team went to Japan and the United States to train, training, Uzu Mu myoko carefully taught Ren Yanli, so that Ren Yanli's admiration for this Japanese sister increased greatly.
Since then, whenever Uzumu Myoko comes to China to play, Ren Yanli will be present, and Uzu Ki myoko will also take time to teach Ren Yanli some softball skills, and the two are like confidants, more like teachers and students.
Ren Yanli, who was fully talented, became famous at the 1986 World Youth Championships in Canada, known as the Asian heavy artillery king, and was elected captain of the national softball team.
But in 1987, Ren Yanli represented the Chinese team in Japan. During the game, Ren Yanli suddenly had an accident, at which time Uzu Ki myoko came to take care of her friend personally, deepening the relationship between the two.
Coinciding with the continuous influx of new blood from the home sports team at that time, Ren Yanli felt that she had gradually been marginalized, and in 1988, Ren Yanli chose to retire from the national team, and she finally made up her mind to come to Japan with Uzu Mu myoko to re-develop her softball career and become the first Player in Chinese women's softball to stay in Japan.
In 1991 and 1993, he won the world softball championship home run for two consecutive years, but this achievement was "earned" for the Japanese team.
Under the persuasion of Uzumu Myoko, who was also a teacher and friend, in 1995 Ren Yanli chose to give up Chinese nationality to become Japanese, and also changed her name with Uzu Ki Myoko to "Uzu Wood Lihua".
This news shocked the whole world, Ren Yanli's father is a famous anti-Japanese general, the hatred for the Japanese in his bones is very deep, let Ren Yanli go to Japan to play football has been very angry, but now he wants to change the country, Ren Yanli in his eyes has been linked to the "traitor", this is a "treasonous" behavior, which makes him more atmosphere, in front of his comrades-in-arms can not look up at all.
Father Ren Weikai since his daughter changed her nationality, has always hoped that his daughter can explain the reason to himself, but has not been able to hear his daughter's explanation, the 70-year-old father finally chose to break off the father-daughter relationship with her, in the next few years, Ren Weikai was depressed, and when he died, he still said that he would not forgive Ren Yanli.
Ren Yanli became a Japanese citizen in 1995 because she wanted to represent the Japanese team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but she had to obtain permission from the Chinese Softball Association according to the regulations.
Originally in 1996, the Chinese women's softball was the peak period, just won the United States, the Olympic Games is to compete with the United States to compete for the championship, and Ren Yan Lido has not entered the Chinese national team for 3 years, even if he joined Japan, he did not have the strength to compete for medals, and as a result, the Chinese Softball Association did not do Shunshui and refused to agree to her participation in the Atlanta Olympic Games.
For the female athlete who was 33 years old at the time, it was even equivalent to killing her Olympic dream, so her resentment was also very large. So that later, at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Ren Yanli directly held aloft the Japanese flag and entered the field, which caused a great impact.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Ren Yanli, as the main attacker of Japan, defeated the Chinese team in the semi-finals and won the silver medal. In 2004, Ren Yanli, who was already 41 years old, was still the main force of the Japanese softball team, and twice smashed the Chinese team's dream of winning the championship in the game, leading the Japanese team to victory. After retiring, in 2008, at the doorstep of Beijing, he won the Olympic championship as a coach.
Ren Yanli and our love and hate are too much, but also give us a lot of vigilance. Ren Yanli went to Japan in the late 1980s, which is considered to be a retirement within the system, but if she did not go to Japan, could she still be recalled to play the Asian Games in the 1990s?
Many well-known athletes in the Japanese sports world were originally Chinese, but later chose to change their nationality for various reasons. There are also many examples of "changing the court" in the basketball industry, Zhang Bentianjie, Sugiyama Miyuki, Kawamura Lisha, Wang Xinchaoxi, etc., are all Japanese players who have played professional leagues or even shortlisted for the national brand, and they were originally All Chinese.
Many of their behaviors are "defections" in the eyes of fans, and they have also made the Chinese sports community very angry, but why can't we keep people?
The current Guo Allen transfer incident is also very noisy, the impact is also very bad, the reasons are still reasonable, what is wrong? If he continues to make trouble again and again, will Guo Allen follow in Yanli's footsteps? What exactly is affecting the development of China's sports industry?