On August 6, with the final of the table tennis men's team at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese team won the championship 3-0.
The table tennis events at the Tokyo Olympics are all over.
During the trip to the Tokyo Olympic Games, the national table tennis team won a total of 4 gold and 3 silver achievements
Not only did the men's and women's groups create a new history of 4 consecutive championships, but the men's and women's singles also won gold and silver medals.
It can be said that a satisfactory report card was handed in.
It also allowed the national audience to see the current 3 unfamiliar faces of Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu
Among them, the post-00s young general Sun Yingsha defeated the national table tennis strong enemy Ito Mimako, and became everyone's example for a while!
Is maxima often there, and Bole is not often there!
When they are famous all over the world, there is one person who can be said to be indispensable, that is, Li Falcon.
Behind Li Falcon's decades of roots, he has already brought out three Grand Slams such as Zhang Yining, Wang Nan and Li Xiaoxia as the head coach.
If according to seniority, Li Falcon already has the ability to be the manager of women's table tennis.
However, the national table tennis previously stipulated that the head coach needs to win the world championship in the player era, which made Li Falcon unable to take the tip.
After the unexpected resignation of then women's table tennis coach Kong Linghui.
Li Falcon, who has worked hard and hard, was finally pushed from behind the scenes to the front desk and took over the responsibility of the women's table tennis coach.
Breaking the old rules and achieving the glory of women's table tennis, Li Falcon can be described as the first person.
In addition, he has an indissoluble relationship with table tennis.
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Li Falcon was born in a sports family, and her mother Ye Peiqiong was the first generation of female table tennis players in New China.
At the age of 14, her mother, Ye Peiqiong, became the youngest women's singles champion in Guangzhou.
And in 1957, he entered the national team and became the first generation of table tennis players in New China with Rong Guotuan, Xu Yinsheng, Zhuang Zedong, Qiu Zhonghui and others.
Since the country was just getting started at that time, the results were not ideal.
In 1961, after playing in the 26th World Table Tennis Championships, Ye Peiqiong retired as the coach of the women's team.
His father is former famous gymnastics coach Li Shiming, who has trained ma Yanhong and other world champions.
After retiring from the army, Ye Peiqiong was pregnant with a child not long after.
However, at that time, the Chinese women's table tennis was not full of manpower, and the excellent players after Ye Peiqiong retired were even more stretched.
When preparing for the 27th World Table Tennis Championships, the leader found Ye Peiqiong and hoped that she could top it again, because no one could use it.
At this time, Ye Peiqiong was 3 months pregnant, and if she went to play the World Table Tennis Championships, it would mean that the child was not protected.
After returning home, Ye Peiqiong consulted with her husband, and both of them said that they chose to obey the decision of the organization.
However, in the end, the matter of letting Ye Peiqiong play the World Table Tennis Championships was gone.
The leader arranged for her to become a correspondent and reported the results to her superiors.
And this child is the current head coach of the women's team, Li Falcon.
After that, Ye Peiwen became the first female table tennis coach sent by China.
Before going abroad, Li Falcon was sent by his mother to the railway soldier table tennis team.
After Li Falcon joined the army, under the guidance of Diao Wenyuan, a ping-pong homestay, he made rapid progress.
At the Third All-Army Games, he defeated yuxiang, the national champion at the time, and Li Peng, a member of the national team at the time, and cooperated with Shi Zhihao and others in the team competition, and won the all-army team championship.
In 1982, in accordance with the decision of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, the railway soldiers were ordered to be collectively transferred.
Because of his young age, Li Falcon was assigned to the Sports Committee of Xicheng District of Beijing according to the principle of "where to come and where to go back".
From sweeping the floor, painting and watching the roller skating rink, he worked steadily and was photographed by the old coach of the water project.
He was sent to The Wuhan Institute of Physical Education to learn kayaking, established a water sports team for Beijing, and trained a large female athlete eliminated by table tennis to become the third place in the national rowing!
At the age of 25, the state advocated "professional homeownership", and Li Falcon returned to the table tennis project.
Although he came from the national table tennis player, Li Falcon was generally talented, and he never achieved particularly dazzling results when he was an athlete.
At that time, it coincided that the retired athletes of the table tennis team had gone abroad, and finally, Li Falcon entered the Beijing table tennis team and began to rub hands with table tennis.
Also because of him, Zhang Yining and Wang Nan fell in love and killed each other.
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Li Falcon, who entered the Beijing women's table tennis team as a coach, met Zhang Yining, who had just entered the team.
When she was a child, Zhang Yining was lively and active, and was led into the table tennis kindergarten class by her uncle who liked table tennis.
Zhang Yining was bold and talented.
When he was 5 years old, he said that he wanted to be the king of table tennis.
She didn't have any concept of a world champion at that time, but she saw some king in the cartoon and said that she wanted to be the king of table tennis.
And this bold word she casually said was no longer a dream after 10 years.
When she was a child, Zhang Yining was more talented, and the coach also paid special attention to her and wanted to cultivate her.
Zhang Yining once recalled in an interview that he was at Shichahai Sports School at the time, and his idea was particularly simple
It will only go forward and not backward, and the playing style is not a tactical type, the kind that is particularly witty.
Later, Li Falcon found this good seedling and told the coach of Shichahai Sports School.
This child is good, but he can't just play the downwind ball, if he doesn't play well, he won't play, and he needs to cultivate the quality of will.
Since then, Zhang Yining has also been deeply touched and began to take every game seriously.
Zhang Yining once said in an interview:
"Before I was 13 years old, I thought training was just playing and practicing, until I met Li Falcon."
Li Falcon recalled Zhang Yining, and the most impressive thing for him was Zhang Yining's refusal to lose.
At that time, Zhang Yining's uncle asked: It is about to leave, do you think Wang Nan can win the championship or Li Ju can win the championship in this competition?
Zhang Yining asked rhetorically: Why don't you think I can win the championship.
At that time, Li Falcon only felt that her state was relatively loose, others were holding the beat, she was carrying the shot, a bit of genius maverick meaning.
However, unlike her loose appearance, she has a very strong personality, especially in ping-pong and refuses to take a step back.
The innate talent, madness and strength are evident.
With the help of Li Falcon, Zhang Yining made rapid progress.
After taking Zhang Yining for a while, Li Falcon was transferred to the national team to coach, and the first player was Wang Nan, who was 16 years old.
15-year-old Zhang Yining also made her debut at the 8th National Games, she made her debut, defeating the then champion-level celebrities Qiao Hong, Li Ju, Yang Ying, Qi Baohua and so on.
Because of this stunning performance, Zhang Yining was also transferred from the Beijing team to the national table tennis team.
The coach was also Li Falcon, and Zhang Yining became Wang Nan's classmate.
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Wang Nan is 3 years older than Zhang Yining, but unlike Zhang Yining, Wang Nan never complains or is lazy when practicing.
Wang Nan's birth is still a bit tortuous, because she has an older sister who is 5 years older than her.
When her sister was 2 years old, her mother became pregnant, but her parents beat the child for the sake of her sister.
Therefore, when the mother was pregnant with Wang Nan, her first reaction was not to.
However, under the persuasion of relatives and friends, later parents also considered that Wang Nan's sister was about to be 5 years old and was going to kindergarten, which gave birth to Wang Nan.
When Wang Nan was 6 years old, she was sent by her mother to fushun amateur sports school to study, where she met her mentor Zhang Jingqing.
Under the leadership of Zhang Jingqing, 14-year-old Wang Nan reached the top eight and met the criteria for being selected for the national team.
When she first entered the national team, her head coach was Zeng Chuanqiang.
At that time, the national women's team was still in the era of Deng Yaping, and Wang Nan still had few opportunities to play.
Two years later, 16-year-old Wang Nan welcomed Li Falcon, who was transferred to the national team, which changed her life.
At that time, Wang Nan's technical characteristics were not prominent, and his attack and defense were not perfect.
After Li Falcon and Wang Nan went through a run-in, they shaped the characteristics of Wang Nan's attacks of sharpness, fierceness and independence, allowing Wang Nan to make rapid progress.
Under the leadership of Li Falcon, Wang Nan won the Swedish Open championship.
In 1995, she won the women's singles championship at the China Open, and it was at this time that Wang Nan was begun to be cultivated by the national team.
In the same year, Zhang Yining, who ranked 6th after three rounds of training, successfully entered the national team.
After Zhang Yining entered the national team, she naturally became a member of Li Falcon's team and also became Wang Nan's sister-in-law.
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With the help of Li Falcon, both of them were invisibly changing.
In 1996, after the Atlanta Olympics, Deng Yaping gradually began to fade out of the national team.
Young players such as Wang Nan and Li Ju have gradually become the main force of the Chinese women's table tennis team.
In 1997, at the 44th World Table Tennis Championships, Wang Nan and her teammates won the first world championship of her career.
Zhang Yining naturally did not want to show weakness and never slackened.
When the national team was preparing for the 44th World Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Yining was designated as a sparring partner for Wang Nan and Deng Yaping.
Although there are not many opportunities to participate, through this high level of training, Zhang Yining's own strength has improved rapidly.
At the 1998 Asian Games, Wang Nan won four championships in women's singles, women's doubles, women's team and mixed doubles, laying the foundation for his position as the leader of national table tennis after Deng Yaping.
At this time, Wang Nan was at his peak, while Zhang Yining was still in the ascending period.
Therefore, Coach Li Falcon put more attention and energy on Wang Nan's side, which made Zhang Yining very depressed and annoyed.
After all, after Deng Yaping announced her retirement, the Chinese women's table tennis team urgently needed a new leader to rise.
Wang Nan is the one valued by many coaches and leaders.
In 1999, Zhang Yining, who won several tour championships, had already caught up with Wang Nan in terms of points.
Zhang Yining was full of confidence in herself at that time, and she was more eager to prove herself in the competition.
At the 1999 World Table Tennis Championships in Eindhoven, Zhang Yining, who was only 17 years old, participated in the World Series for the first time.
When everyone set their sights on Wang Nan and Li Ju, the two main players of the national team, Zhang Yining unexpectedly beat Li Ju 3-0.
All the way to the final, against the same door sister Wang Nan.
At that time, Zhang Yining was so excited, so excited that the whole person was shaking before going on the field.
As soon as she played, she opened up her skills and directly hit Wang Nan 2-0
However, at this time, the young Zhang Yining's psychological fluctuations were relatively large, and Wang Nan seized the opportunity to win three consecutive rounds.
In the end, she defeated Zhang Yining 3-2 and won her first women's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships.
The loss of the gold medal was a very big blow to Zhang Yining.
As a result, the Olympic qualifiers lost consecutively, and finally even the ticket to the Sydney Olympic Games was handed over.
Wang Nan successfully participated in the women's singles and women's doubles, becoming the second Grand Slam athlete after Deng Yaping.
In 2001, in the women's singles final of the Ninth Games, Zhang Yining and Wang Nan met again.
She still led Wang Nan 2-0, but was overtaken by Wang Nan later, losing 3-2.
Her mentality was also like a taut string, tightening a little bit, and finally it was broken, and the whole person was out of control.
In the last minute of the final round, it was Wang Nan's turn to serve, and Zhang Yining did not even catch the ball in the end, and swung the racket to go down.
The negative performance made the leaders in the audience particularly dissatisfied, and Zhang Yining was banned for three months and disqualified her from participating in the last two international open tournaments and the Tianjin finals in 2001.
At that time, Zhang Yining could be said to be extremely painful, and her state was getting worse and worse every day.
Seeing zhang Yining like this, Li Falcon, as Zhang Yining's head coach, watched Zhang Yining grow up, and stared at Zhang Yining's training time, which can be said to be longer than spending time with his own daughter.
Seeing zhang Yining was particularly anxious, he was also anxious to speak, and the two of them were anxious when they spoke.
Zhang Yining suddenly picked up the dinner knife on the coffee table and plunged it into her thigh, she was too depressed.
There was no place to vent, plus she was said to be anxious by Li Falcon, and she could only vent in such a way as hurting herself.
In fact, Zhang Yining's mentality is still easy to understand, and she has rarely tasted defeat along the way, and she is eager to win.
At that time, she was just 20 years old, and she was particularly anxious, so she complained to Li Falcon: You know Guan Wang Nan, don't care about me.
And Li Falcon's inner pressure at that time was also quite large, and Zhang Yining's momentum was particularly strong.
As Li Falcon, who watched her step by step, at this time began to pay more attention to Zhang Yining, and Wang Nan also left Li Falcon's group shortly after the end of the Olympic Games.
In 2004, at the Athens Olympic Games, Wang Nan and Zhang Yining competed together in women's singles and women's doubles.
Wang Nan first won a women's doubles gold medal with Zhang Yining.
However, in the subsequent women's singles competition, Wang Nan lost to Singapore's Li Jiawei, and Zhang Yining reached the final and won the championship.
At the moment of winning the championship, Zhang Yining finally smiled.
Zhang Yining's style of play on the court is tough and direct, and the ball goes straight to the point, which has a scene of crying Fukuhara Ai.
She said, "The people who grew up in the Imperial City Root feel that the momentum comes up, that is, who loves whoever they love, no one cares." It is the strength of The Great Master of Beijing. In fact, to be honest, it is quite silly, and it is not obvious that it is smart in the national team, and it is particularly obvious that it is stupid. I'm one of those stupid people. Sometimes the personality is quite strong, and sometimes when venting, you should find something very good to adjust, and don't go too positively. ”
In 2008, at the Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Yining broke out in full swing, winning the Women's Singles Championships of the World Cup and the World Championships, and successfully meeting wang Nan in the women's singles final.
She was really like a warrior on the battlefield, before entering the battlefield.
Just say a word to Li Falcon: Let's see who is more ruthless tonight.
Just this sentence, and then dashing on the field.
It can be said that in this final, both people have played their strength to the extreme, and also made the game the most enjoyable.
However, Zhang Yining is not the young general who is eager and impetuous before.
In the end, Zhang Yining won, becoming the third Grand Slam player of the women's team after Deng Yaping and Wang Nan.
Winning this medal on her doorstep means a lot to her!
After the Beijing Olympics, Wang Nan announced his retirement.
Zhang Yining announced his retirement after the 2009 National Games, and the two left the national team one after the other.
It can be said that the peak period of Wang Nan and Zhang Yining is almost coincident.
From 1999 to 2008, both were the best members of the Chinese women's team, and the competition between them was very large.
Despite this, the relationship between Wang Nan and Zhang Yining is very good, which may be the reason for being carried by a coach.
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After Wang Nan retired and Zhang Yining, Li Falcon took Li Xiaoxia with him.
With her, she won the gold medal at the London Olympics and also became a Grand Slam winner.
Of course, Li Falcon has also been questioned for employing people.
World champion Zhu Yuling was once Li Falcon's beloved apprentice, and she lost the title to Ito Mimachi in the 2018 Swedish Open and fell into a long trough, when it was Li Falcon who was the sideline director.
There was also a slightly discordant scene at the scene of the game, and the impatient Zhu Yuling directly listened to Li Falcon's words.
After this, Li Falcon once again boldly deployed the formation and insisted on using young players such as Sun Yingsha.
At this Olympic Games, Ito Mimachi, who was beaten to tears, remembers that after she won, she was extremely confident that all kinds of small expressions continued to pull hatred in the country.
Sun Yingsha's game is really a big pleasure.
But in fact, Sun Yingsha also had a period of downturn, when Japan won the double championship.
Sun Yingsha's tactics were studied by the opponent, the state was also affected, the results declined, and Sun Yingsha's head coach was almost taken away.
But Li Falcon saw her potential and once said in an interview:
"I think she is especially like Zhang Yining, they are very young and indeed very talented, and they have not worked too hard to play at a very high level."
Like Zhang Yining at that time, she hit the world runner-up, the beat was not yet clenched, casually played, not yet fully engaged.
Sun Yingsha also has this concept, smooth sailing, as soon as she enters the team, she will win the championship. But it's too far from reaching the highest levels of Olympic standards. ”
In 2018, Sun Yingsha fell into a bottleneck of development and fell behind.
In order to stimulate Sun Yingsha's fighting spirit, during the closed training period of the Asian Games, Li Falcon punished Sun Yingsha for running 10,000 meters to beat her.
There are reports that during the 2018 Women's World Cup, Li Falcon and Sun Yingsha were still studying Ito's tactics very late.
This also confirmed that Li Falcon said in the post-match interview that what they had carefully prepared for 5 years to deal with Ito was not false.
As Li Falcon said, the reason why the national table tennis has been prosperous for a long time is because someone always stands up at a critical moment.
The old people do not forget their original intentions, and the new people continue to improve themselves.
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And to have such achievements, it is not enough to rely on the level of coaching, and Li Falcon has come up with a desperate spirit.
During the preparation for the Olympic Games, Li Falcon had a heart attack.
However, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Li Falcon did not tell the team members that only a few people in the coaching team knew.
Liu Guoliang revealed: "After Li Falcon's surgery, playing the warm-up game was also his most "dangerous" time. At this age, I am still playing for the country and fighting for the national table tennis! ”
Liu Guoliang also revealed that Li Falcon did not immediately notify his family after the operation, and only told his wife when the situation stabilized.
In the later stage of preparation, Li Falcon's diet and living life were personally taken care of by his wife, giving the couple a chance to prepare for the battle together.
In this regard, Li Falcon frankly thanked Liu Guoliang very much: "It is indeed an exception, there is no outsider in the closed training of the national team, and the family can come in." ”
And Li Falcon's exception is more than this time!
In 2017, the competition requirements for male and female table tennis coaches clearly stipulated that their athlete experience must be a world champion or An Olympic champion.
After Kong Linghui was recalled to China because of rumors of gambling, Li Falcon was ordered to take on the heavy responsibility of coaching.
At that time, women's table tennis was still in the predicament of being swept by Hirano Miyu in the Asian Championships.
Li Falcon personally took Ding Ning to a successful revenge, resulting in a great victory for the Chinese women's table tennis.
After that, Liu Guoliang broke the rules and conventions that the national table tennis manager must be a champion, and Li Falcon successfully entered the final.
Li Falcon has proved with his own achievements that he can not only cultivate Grand Slam players, but also serve as the manager of a team.
Lead the team as a whole to achieve good results.
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Perhaps the most outstanding contribution of this Olympic Games is not to see the gold medal.
Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, two young athletes, appeared at the same time in the Olympic Arena, which is Li Falcon's greatest contribution.
In the words of Li Falcon, this women's table tennis has completed the replacement of the old and new in the Olympic Games.
The reason why the national table tennis has been prosperous for a long time is because someone always stands up at a critical moment.
Behind every great world champion, there are many heroes like Li Falcon who silently pay.