China's sports industry has made great progress since the reform and opening up, and its participation in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 was a blockbuster. China has seen many outstanding athletes in recent years, but with the development of friendly sports exchanges between countries, some outstanding talents have also been lost abroad, and Ren Yanli is one of them.
Ren Yanli was born in Beijing in 1963, she is the former softball national team captain, she turned from javelin to softball, is the absolute main force of the national team, she was known as the "Asian heavy artillery" at that time, won the title of home run king and batting king, and won the world championship home run king for two consecutive years.
Ren Yanli has a good personal relationship with Japanese softball head coach Mioko Uzuki, Ren Yanli regards her as an older sister, influenced by Utsuki Mioko, Ren Yanli went to Toei in 1988 to continue her career, and became a Japanese citizen in 1995, because the Chinese softball team was not released, her dream of representing the Japanese softball team in the Atlanta Olympics failed to materialize, and she was also dissatisfied with the Chinese softball team.
After Ren Yanli joined the Japanese nationality, she changed her name to Utsugi Reika and was completely "daily". Her failure to represent Japan at the Olympics has always been a longing for the Chinese team, and at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok she became Japan's flag bearer, raising the Japanese flag to enter, which caused great controversy at the time.
Reika Uzugi, who represented Japan in the group stage and semifinals of the Athens Games, said after the match that it was her greatest wish to win against the Chinese team, and she was very happy to beat the Chinese team at such an advanced age. Ren Yanli's father, a veteran, was very angry with his daughter for joining Japan and speaking out against the Chinese team, saying that he would not forgive her until she died.