With the end of the Tokyo Olympics, the national table tennis women's team completed the replacement of the old and new. Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, three young players who participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, won the gold and silver medals in the women's singles in one fell swoop, and the women's team achieved 4 consecutive championships. Behind this good achievement, it is naturally indispensable to the hard work of Li Falcon, the head coach of the national table tennis women's team, for many years.
Recently, the Internet has rumored the resignation of Li Falcon's guidance, which was verified by the "Ping Pong" magazine to the relevant departments, which is a fake news. More self-media exposure said that Deng Yaping is expected to take over the position of head coach of the national table tennis women's team, in fact, this is even more empty.
Deng Yaping said in an interview with the "Table Tennis" magazine reporter that athletes have to face the problem of secondary choice. "We chose to persevere because we loved a sport from a young age, and we eventually became world champions and made ourselves. But athletes have to face the problem of retirement. I chose to go to school, and many people thought my brain was burned out. Because I see a lot of my coaches, who used to be famous athletes, and when I see my coaches twenty or thirty years later, I may be like this, I wonder if I can try to do something else. In such a process, I have to constantly learn and improve myself. To do anything, you have to take your core competitiveness, or the core elements of success, into your own hands. This process requires immersion in research, learning, and discovering which is most suitable for you. ”
Therefore, Deng Yaping resolutely gave up the idea of being a coach and decided to study abroad to enrich herself. "I was studying abroad and saw a graduation ceremony in Cambridge, where I stood in the center of the city on my bicycle for more than an hour. Watching them in their dresses, parents and friends and family coming from all over the world to attend their graduation ceremonies, that proud expression, that joy, especially like the process we went to the podium. It was this moment that planted the seeds of my study at Cambridge. ”