In the past few years, Bao Chunlai was also known as the "No. 1 handsome guy of the Chinese badminton team", and it can be seen from the photos of that year that his face was full of clear charm, coupled with a height of one meter and nine one, his appearance made him gain countless fans.
However, for Bao Chunlai, perhaps he is "unlucky".
Because at the peak of his career, there was another athlete on the national team who was beating the competition, and that was Lin Dan.
Today, the 38-year-old national badminton handsome guy is still single, but the love of his life is married, and he has two children left, and his badminton career was also suppressed by Lin Dan and finally chose to retire with regret.
Bao Chunlai, who was dubbed "Handsome Guy"
In 2000, at the Guangzhou World Youth Championships, Bao Chunlai won the men's singles championship by passing five levels and cutting six, and thus entered the national first team and showed his head.
At that time, both coaches Tang Xianhu and Zhong Bo had high hopes for Bao Chunlai, and under their careful cultivation, Bao Chunlai quickly made great progress in the national team and continued to appear on a bigger stage.
During this stage, Bao Chunlai had an "invincible" stage until he met Lin Dan.
The 2003 City Games badminton men's singles national player duel was eye-catching, and that match was the peak duel between Bao Chunlai and Lin Dan.
In the shouts of his hometown father, Bao Chunlai walked onto the court, facing "Super Dan", he came up with a disadvantageous situation, but his strength should not be underestimated, chasing the score all the way to 13:14.
Almost everyone at the scene held their breath to watch this wonderful showdown, and in the end, Lin Dan ended the match with a wonderful smash.
Some media have also criticized Bao Chunlai's performance, saying that he "has a soft style of play, is indecisive in grasping some opportunities, and does not grasp the fire well." ”
These criticisms have also made Bao Chunlai more deeply understand his own shortcomings, and there is still a long way to go in the future, and he must catch up.
At that time, the performance of the men's singles in the international world was not particularly eye-catching, whether it was Bao Chunlai or Lin Dan, they were shouldering new hopes, and head coach Li Yongbo also said: "They all have a certain strength, but they are not absolutely sure of winning in international competitions, after all, there are also many foreign masters in this project." ”
Their goal is to win awards in international competitions, but Bao Chunlai didn't seem to realize that Lin Dan would become his "lifelong enemy".
In the Swiss Open in March 2004, Bao Chunlai reached the final, but he finally lost to Lin Dan with a score of 0:2 and won the runner-up.
At the China Open Badminton Championships at the end of the year, Bao Chunlai, who had adjusted his mentality, once again "encountered" Lin Dan in the final and was the runner-up again.
In the Chinese Badminton Masters the following year, Bao Chunlai was still the runner-up, and his opponent was still Lin Dan.
In this way, Bao Chunlai has always been the "second oldest man of the millennium", and this "law" was only broken at the 2009 German Open.
It seems that Bao Chunlai once again showed a very strong side this year, in September of the same year, he defeated Tawfik 2-0 to win the men's singles title, and the result was that the following month, he represented the Hunan provincial team in the 11th National Games, but unfortunately lost to Lin Dan in the men's singles final.
In the "carrying the weight", Bao Chunlai has won more and more awards internationally, but Lin Dan has become a lingering "nightmare", in April 2011 he won the Asian Badminton Championship runner-up after losing to Lin Dan, and then swept the Danish team with the Chinese team.
But at the end of this year, the veteran who has been fighting on the sports field for more than ten years still announced the news of retirement, which made countless fans feel regretful.
After leaving the stadium, Bao Chunlai had a new goal and plan, perhaps, after staying in the group for too long, he always wanted to see the outside world.
After leaving the national team for more than a year, Bao Chunlai has not participated in even a single game, and when interviewed by the media, Bao Chunlai also said: "I almost forgot how to hold the racket." ”
Sure enough, for Bao Chunlai, playing is something he has always wanted to do, and seeing such a big regression after retiring, he is still a little unhappy.
After that, he returned to the training ground to train, and the mentality was "no slack and no competition", because there was less pressure on his shoulders and he was always very peaceful.
Later, reporters also found that a major reason for Bao Chunlai to return to the stadium was because Tang Hui, the head coach of the Hunan team, wanted him to return.
Tang Hui also said excitedly: "As soon as the team said that he was needed, he came back immediately, and he was so serious during training, he has always been strict with himself, and he has great respect for other teammates and coaches, hoping that he can lead everyone to continue to work hard, and his self-discipline has a great positive impact on those young players." ”
But rheumatism has been tormenting the talented athlete, and he finally had to say goodbye to the court.
What he himself did not expect was that the next life would be so colorful.
In 2012, a variety show was broadcast on Qinghai Satellite TV, and this program was also the work that Bao Chunlai invested the most time and energy after retiring, and immediately attracted a large number of Bao Chunlai's fans to watch after the program was broadcast.
In the show, the former stadium champion turned into a professional travel exploration program host, and this transformation also allowed him to complete the transformation.
For Bao Chunlai, this new job is also a test.
Once, he followed the column group to the ice field of Jilin to feel the primitive fishing activities of the Olunchun people, where the temperature was as low as minus 30 degrees, coupled with the fierce cold wind, which made Bao Chunlai, who grew up in Changsha, feel extremely difficult.
He also said: "In order to go fishing, I bought a pair of super heavy XX shoes (a certain brand), and put on 3 pairs of cotton pants inside and out, but as soon as the carriage ran, I felt the chill spread from my feet to my whole body, and I was unconscious." ”
He was also deeply impressed by this experience, and he remembers that even in the cold wind, the local herders could happily sing songs, and before they knew it, the sun was rising over the horizon, a warm feeling that he had never experienced before.
Many of the places he went to in the show were remote areas, but there were still many people in the local area who could recognize Bao Chunlai.
Once on China's southernmost island, where fishermen always sleep in tents, one of the fishermen asked, "I see you as the one who plays badminton." ”
This sentence made Bao Chunlai very surprised and deeply grateful, because in addition to serving as a host, he also shouldered the work of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council Straits Exchange image ambassador and participated in the promotion of some badminton.
The road of life is getting wider and wider
The gentle Bao Chunlai also made a lot of friends in the process of the activity.
Once he went to the hospital and met an enthusiastic fan who told him that he practiced badminton for five or six hours a day on weekdays, and even when he participated in amateur competitions, he would be as strict as a member of the national team.
Bao Chun sighed with shame: "We still arranged it in the team, and I have never prepared for it like this." ”
In 2013, Bao Chunlai ushered in his 30th birthday, and several old teammates helped him celebrate his birthday, as the saying goes, "standing at thirty", and entering the age of 30 seems to bid farewell to the youth and frivolity of the past.
Bao Chunlai didn't seem to have such strong feelings about this, he said: "On my birthday, I was as usual, everyone ate and sang, and there was no sentimentality and excitement, let alone indescribable emotion. ”
After that, Bao Chunlai went further and further on the road of "cross-border".
In 2017, he co-starred with Jing Tian and others in an inspirational love drama, which made many people shine.
Speaking of his acting career, Bao Chunlai has always had a lot of feelings, in his eyes, when filming, everyone is concentrated together, and a play will take two or three months to shoot, much like the training life of the year, but it was with teammates and coaches back then, and now the people around him have become directors and actors.
Bao Chunlai, who "left home halfway", also has a lot of hard work, after all, the new field represents a new beginning, and everything must be learned and accumulated from scratch.
All kinds of roles can arouse his interest, he wants to play a cowardly man, he also wants to play an arrogant role, and even the villain he wants to try, and he has no intention of stopping.
His crossover has not completely given up badminton, and he still follows various events.
What makes him gratified is that the current batch of new players no longer adopt the method of "hard training" and "dead training", which is also because the times are changing, the way of playing is also changing, and now everyone is relying on their own personality and characteristics to have a stronger adaptability on the court.
Even though he always thinks about how to perform a good play, every time he comes to the gymnasium, he feels that it is a place full of aura, he said: "Whenever I come to the stadium to take a deep breath, the inspiration to play comes out instantly." ”
In the interview in 2019, Bao Chunlai, who is already in his thirties, always has a special sense of youth, he still has a bright face, and his speech is full of youthful atmosphere.
After so many years, he seems to have never changed, still maintains the good habit of thinking about others everywhere, constantly insists on his love, and strives towards the goal of "expert actor", becoming a real acting school.
This year, a TV series he starred in was broadcast, even if there are many plots that he has not experienced, but the "ideological core" of the strivers is so similar.
Many old fans are concerned about Bao Chunlai's emotional problems, and seeing him from his twenties to thirties, everyone also hopes that he can really have a home.
In the minds of fans, Bao Chunlai also had a particularly beloved woman, that is, Luo Xuejuan.
Luo Xuejuan is also an athlete, her main focus is swimming, and she also won the 100-meter breaststroke at the 2004 Athens Games, a new record.
The two are both athletes, and the common topic is naturally not less, and after the relationship between the two was made public in 2004, it was once considered a "heaven-made" couple.
However, their relationship did not last long, and after the 2005 World Championships, they broke up.
Since then, Bao Chunlai has no love news, and Luo Xuejuan has also become someone else's wife.
On the evening of January 15, 2019, Luo Xuejuan announced the good news of her second child.
Guangxi News Network once mentioned: his melancholy is not only manifested in the game, even his love life is regrettable, Luo Xuejuan is a person he can never get around, about the breakup, the two have not explained, but Luo Xuejuan has an impressive sentence, that is, "I like the strong".
Therefore, many people think that Luo Xuejuan left Bao Chunlai because of the gap in their careers during that time, and Bao Chunlai has always been a person of great affection and righteousness, even after the breakup, he has always hung the "love ring" chosen with Luo Xuejuan around his neck.
After Luo Xuejuan, Bao Chunlai has never disclosed a second girlfriend, and perhaps "that person" has never appeared.
Now, after so many years, the two have already had their own happy lives.
On August 13, 2022, the opening ceremony of the Yunnan "Embrace Blue" dolphin project was held in Kunming, and Luo Xuejuan appeared.
She is like a big sister, accompanying the children to interact, taking them to play and play together, and encouraging the children to be brave and express their ideals and aspirations.
At the same time, as a mother of two children, she also shared her parent-child concept at the scene: "Don't replace your children's ideals with your own expectations, try to communicate with them on an equal footing from the perspective of children, understand their ideas and needs, and encourage them to bravely express and express themselves." ”
On the other hand, Bao Chunlai's career is constantly ushering in new "small peaks".
In August 2021, a variety show lineup was officially announced, and Bao Chunlai and Lin Dan both participated in this variety show.
Bao Chunlai, who reveals affinity, is also a "publicity ambassador" and a "public welfare ambassador".
In September 2022, Bao Chunlai once again contributed to public welfare as a "Wish 100 Public Welfare Ambassador", and his participation in projects is increasing the valuable opportunities for rural children to receive vocational education.
At the age of 38, he is not married, and various endorsement activities have received "softness", and he is still sunny and handsome in the photo, of course, from his personal social accounts, he has always paid attention to the sport of badminton and can always make sharp comments.
This year was also the hottest year for the sport of frisbee, and Bao Chunlai quickly became the official ambassador of the "2022 China Trend Frisbee Carnival" to promote frisbee sports together, and he also created a frisbee work called "Travel the Universe".
It seems that age has not left too deep marks on his face, and fans are also hoping that his future will get better and better.
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Olympic champion Luo Xuejuan announced the good news of the birth of her second child: Thank you for your concern Phoenix.com
City Games Badminton Men's Singles National Player Showdown Bao Chunlai was indecisive and lost to Lin Dan People's Network