Passion, make change happen.
Table Tennis Legend
The national table tennis team has never lacked legends, but legends also roll each other:
You are an Olympic champion, and I am also an Olympic champion; You are the champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, and I am also the champion of the World Table Tennis Championships; You are a World Cup champion, and I am a World Cup champion; You slam, I slam!
It's all Grand Slams, and I'll have another "fastest ever" Grand Slam - five consecutive championships in three tournaments in 445 days! This is the legend created by Zhang Jike.
This fierce and domineering backhand man has written a brilliant table tennis record with 16 world championships and 3 Olympic medals!
Passionate life
In the national table tennis team, excellent athletes emerge one after another, but Zhang Jike is absolutely unique.
Zhang Jike entered the second national table tennis team at the age of 14, and defeated Ma Lin, Wang Liqin and Wang Hao at the age of 20 to win the first national table tennis championship men's singles championship in his career.
Between 2008 and 2014, Zhang Jike became more and more courageous and gradually reached the peak of his career.
His blood and passion have rejuvenated this traditional sport, and also triggered an idol-style star-chasing frenzy.
Outside the field, Zhang Jike is a sleepy-eyed poetry lover; On the field, Zhang Jike is a wild "Tibetan mastiff" who kills all directions with passion.
After the victory, he tore clothes, kicked the baffle, kissed the floor... Unruly and full of personality, but loved by fans, he has become the most passionate player in the national table tennis team.
Although it hurts
With his sharp playing style and high-intensity training, Zhang Jike was diagnosed with bilateral lumbosacral fissure in 2015.
However, Zhang Jike, who has difficulty walking, contributed two famous scenes in the second half of his career:
The first is the World Table Tennis Championships held in Suzhou in 2015.
In the match between Zhang Jike/Xu Xin VS Ma Long/Boll, in order to cooperate with the "People's Artist" Xu Xin to pull the ball, Zhang Jike crawled on the ground regardless of the image and gave his partner the maximum space to pull the ball.
Second, in the men's singles 1/4 final of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Zhang Jike played half-asleep and lost the first set 5-11 in the match against Koki Niwa.
Liu Guoliang shouted anxiously at him: "It will definitely not work to fight like this!" You wake up", "Don't be confused, you can't be confused on the field." This is the Olympics, Jiko! ”
After that, Zhang Jike won four consecutive games to win 1/4 match, which also leveled the obstacle for Ma Long to win the championship.
For the sake of victory, for the sake of honor, he can give his all, grit his teeth and persevere, even if the peak is no longer, he must crawl forward.
Behind the silence
However, Zhang Jike, who is brave and flamboyant on the field, is a taciturn person off the field.
He once said in an interview that no one can understand him, only Director Liu (Liu Guoliang) can understand a little.
The hardships killed from the hands of Ru Lin Qiang, others can only see glory, not tears; The frustration of slipping from the peak, others will only politely persuade, and cannot experience the pain and struggle in your heart.
Zhang Jike said: "Giving up is sometimes more difficult than fighting."
So, despite his injuries, he still did not announce his retirement.
He said he had tried to do something else, such as football, golf, or even business, but none of it was as good as playing table tennis.
In a top-level tournament, a showdown between masters can produce extreme concentration, extreme anxiety, and incredible joy and deep pain that nothing else can match.
He enjoyed the feeling and tried to perpetuate it, but his body would not allow it.
People, when they can't ask for it, tend to look for alternatives.
Now, rumors of his bad habits are flying.
He is related to this hobby, and it is certainly not just because of "money".
After all, career and business value are here, and the matter of wealth freedom should have been realized by him long ago.
The only reasonable explanation is that this kind of game, the psychological stimulation brought by it, makes people addicted.
Legends are lonely, but legends are also more easily destroyed. In their world, the days when they can't stand at the top are like the walking dead.
How dazzling the initial leap was, how dark the fall is now.
A life wrapped in passion, only a sigh!
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