Recently, Xu Xin, who has just been elected vice chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Alliance, appeared at the Shanghai Banu hot pot restaurant to taste the "last meal" before the training with his teammates who were preparing to go to Wenzhou for a month-long training.
I have to say that since the Tokyo Olympic Games in August, Xu Xin, as a famous table tennis player, has started a career of continuous rotation, just after the Tokyo Olympic Games, followed by the National Games, followed by the Strong Table Tennis Super League, and finally for the World Table Tennis Championships a month later, almost can not stop.
Thinking of this, I believe that even if athletes have strict dietary intake standards, fans and friends will understand, after all, for Xu Xin, who has the attribute of "foodie", how can he refuse the temptation brought by a hot pot?
However, what is more interesting is that Xu Xin, who wanted to eat hot pot in a low-key manner, and even in order to taste this net red hot pot, who was still queuing at the door and was recognized by many fans who also came to eat hot pot, they came to ask for a group photo.
And Xu Xin's "fan base" age is also very large, this is not, even if it is not very good at capturing network information, even the Shanghai aunt can not help but come to find the Olympic champion Xu Xin for a photo. This prompted Xu Xin, who was a junior, to give up his chair and let the two aunts take pictures around him, and the scene was inexplicably cute.
But then again, for the rapid development of the Internet in modern times, traffic has created many "Internet celebrities" and "stars" at the same time, but also to make these athletes who have won glory for the country get more people's attention, which is a good thing.
You know, although most professional athletes enjoy state welfare, their salaries are not high, and even if they win a gold medal, it is not the same as being able to "eat and clothe without worry". On the contrary, before the network was not so developed, many star athletes who had been brilliant for a while had a bitter past after retiring.
Sang Xue, who used to be on the Chinese Diving Dream Team, teamed up with Li Na at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and won the women's 10m platform double championship. However, she should have entered the rising period of her career, but because of her mother's illness and various complicated reasons, she chose to retire and transform, at the age of 16, she went to Chinese University to study broadcasting, but because she was in the sports world for many years, reading was not so easy for her.
At the low point of his life, the former Olympic champion worked as a waiter, delivered newspapers, and once had the idea of selling gold medals.
Compared with Sang Xue, the life of another champion athlete is more tragic.
His name is Caili, and the name "Force" seems to have given him an innate strength that propelled him down the path of a weightlifter.
In his weightlifting career, he won more than 40 national championships and more than 20 Asian titles, but he is still not popular, and not many people even remember his name today.
The glory of the past did not make his retirement life rich. On the contrary, the leg injuries and waist pain left over from years of training tormented this strong Andculant all the time, and the body weighing more than 160 kilograms also made him discriminated against in the later work.
After retiring, he found that so many championship titles could not even exchange him for a piece of pork.
In 2003, five years after Caili retired, and it was on May 31 of this year that Caili, who was too obese, died of "respiratory failure with intrapulmonary infection" due to apnea syndrome, at the age of 33.
In those years, the Internet was not developed, and the economy was prosperous today, but compared to the ordinary people who lived in those years, these athletes not only spent their young time to focus on one thing, but were more likely to sacrifice their future for it.
Regarding the retirement career of professional athletes, the movie "Beyond" starring Zheng Kai gives a realistic interpretation, the former "100-meter trapeze" has become a greasy businessman, the former weightlifting champion has become a porter, the former taekwondo champion has driven a tricycle, these athletes who have experienced the highlights of life, the final embarrassing life is lamentable.
Compared with the entertainment industry with an income of tens of thousands, the contrast is great and causes people to think deeply.
Fortunately, the convenience of the Network today gives everyone more close contact with sports events and professional athletes, and also allows more people to see these athletes who train weekdays, the appearance of life, and the look of hard work on the field.
For example, in this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, a young Olympic athlete who won multiple Olympic gold medals, Quan Hongchan, her birth was very ordinary, but in the best era, with the most sweat, let everyone witness her glory, and then she believes that she will also embark on a different life.
Of course, it is a good thing that things must be reversed, and sports stars are gradually recognized by the public, but excessive exposure, as well as the trend of gradual "idolization", although it can attract more people to pay attention to sports events, it may also create "sports idols" to gradually "not do business", after all, after the commercial value is magnified, few people can resist the benefits brought by their own value.
Therefore, I still hope that the future relationship between sports and business can coexist harmoniously, so that many excellent athletes can get more attention at the same time, but also let them have enough training time to meet the next highlight of their own life, and in addition to training, they can occasionally taste their favorite food, such as hot pot.
Here, I wish in advance that the athletes who are preparing for the World Table Tennis Championships can get their own gold medal. #许昕 #