At the Tokyo Olympics, in the men's singles final of badminton, Chen Long lost 0-2 to Arcelor and lost the defending title and won the silver medal. After the game, when Chen Long and ArceLong exchanged jerseys with pity, everyone seemed to see the "Lin-Li War" of that year again, but Chen Long's role was more like Li Zongwei who lost that year.
For the past decade, Chinese fans have always regarded the National Badminton Men's Singles Olympic Gold Medal as our bag, because before the National Badminton had "Super Dan" Lin Dan! In the Olympic finals of those years, the runner-up podium always lost to Li Zongwei of Lin Dan, so that many people at that time were joking that "badminton is the sport in which Lin Dan wins the championship and Li Zongwei wins the silver medal". Time has passed, in the Rio final, Li Zongwei, who was exhausted by Lin Dan's "half-life", finally lost to Chen Long, helping Li Yongbo save the last face of the national men's singles in the Olympic arena.
In the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Li Zongwei and Lin Dan announced their retirement one after another, and after Guoyu bid farewell to Li Yongbo and ushered in Li Spear, Chen Long gradually came out of the decline, but it was only to let everyone see the hope of impacting the Olympic final four. The 32-year-old Chen Long has already performed very well in his last Olympic Games, but the failure to defend his title still makes Chinese fans feel very sad. This piece of national feathers once won nine times a gold medal "so close, so far"!
At the badminton women's singles award ceremony, when the "national feathering devil" Li Lingwei personally awarded the gold medal to Chen Yufei, the fans saw the brilliant future of the national badminton women's singles, but in the men's singles project with greater competition difficulties, with the end of Chen Long, I am afraid that even the most magical Li Spear will be difficult to cultivate the next "super Dan"! In Chen Long's unwilling eyes, everyone finally understood how painful Li Zongwei, who repeatedly stood on the runner-up podium in those years, was in pain!
This Olympic Games, Chinese athletics, swimming and other sports to achieve a huge breakthrough, the Chinese women's volleyball team but three consecutive defeats out of the tragic out, "table tennis overlord" national table tennis in the mixed doubles to lose the crown, perhaps, in competitive sports, "riding the wind and waves will sometimes", but at the same time "nothing will be immortal"! In the first Olympic Games led by Zhang Jun alone, all five events of China's national feathers entered the finals, and won two gold and four silver results, although this record still could not catch up with the proud glory of Li Yongbo wearing hardware at the 2012 London Olympic Games, but the long day to Japan, China's national feathers cheered!