"Lao Tzu is an outlaw, and when I think of the Olympics, my blood boils, and my eyes shine!"
On the eve of the 2008 Olympic Games, a member of the national table tennis team dressed in Chinese red in front of the camera, patted his chest, and issued such a battle declaration.
This player who calls himself "outlaw" is table tennis national player Chen Xuan, known as "killing gods".
Chen Xuan in front of the camera is radiant and unrestrained, and in 2004, at the age of 22, he won the Athens Olympics and became famous.
But there is another thing that also makes him famous, that is, he was assigned by coach Liu Guoliang to feed pigs on the farm, and the Olympic champion fed pigs, which is really "no one before, no one after", what kind of story is there?
Three in and two out of the national team
Chen Xuan has been a persistent and individualistic child since he was a child, and he has shown excellent talent in table tennis.
The left hand is lined up horizontally, and the ball style is clean and neat, what a good seedling!
This is everyone's evaluation of the young Chen Xuan, not surprisingly, at the age of 12, Chen Xuan stood out from many children and was selected for the provincial team.
In 1999, Chen Xuan's excellence allowed him to go one step further and was successfully selected for the national team.
According to common sense, such a player who is talented in table tennis and works hard should continue to grow after being selected for the national team, and go further and further on the road of table tennis.
But this was not the case, and it only took Chen Xuan 18 days for the national team to abandon him - he was returned to the provincial team.
Is it because Chen Xuanqiu pulled his crotch? Not really, because of his temper.
Like his ball style, Chen Xuan's temper can be said to be quite irritable.
This is not accurate, it may be because of his fiery temper that he has his sharp style of play.
Not long after joining the national team, Chen Xuan lost in an intra-team match.
At that time, Chen Xuan could not accept the fact that he lost, he used to play invincible in Nantong and Jiangsu, but now in this talented national team, he is still younger.
At just 17 years old, Chen Xuan was like a "dynamite package" that had been detonated, full of anger and desperate for a catharsis - he broke his ping-pong racket.
A table tennis player who destroys his racket due to catharsis is too easy to get out of control!
Looking at the broken ping-pong racket on the ground, the national team made a decision: Chen Xuan, return to the provincial team!
Chen Xuan, who was "returned", was not greatly hit, Chen Xuan is resilient, he feels that as long as he works hard, he can also enter the national team.
In 2000, less than 1 year after the last return, Chen Xuan once again played back to the national team with his outstanding strength!
This time, Chen Xuan converged a lot, trained regularly and at fixed points every day, worked hard and seriously, and worked hard to control his emotions.
But young and frivolous, one day, Chen Xuan and his teammates violated the discipline of the national team and went out to play until late at night and did not return.
The teammates solemnly apologized and said that they would not commit it again, only Chen Xuan looked unconvinced, and the young Chen Xuan felt that it was wrong to go out with his brother?
Looking at the young people who did not obey the discipline, the national team made a decision again: Chen Xuan, return to the provincial team!
In just two years, two in and two out of the national team, it can be said that it is very rare in the sports world around the world.
What is the future of a sports player who has been returned twice by the national team?
After leaving this time, Chen Xuan buried his obsession with the national team, but the only thing that remained unchanged was his love for table tennis, and he made an agreement with his parents: regardless of the result, play for another two years!
He trained day after day, and finally, he ushered in the Bole of his career, Liu Guoliang.
As we all know, Liu Guoliang has repeatedly won championships for the country and is an excellent national table tennis veteran.
In 2002, Liu Guoliang retired, but he did not give up table tennis, he became a coach, and led many table tennis players hand-in-hand.
In the same year, at the Table Tennis Super League, a teenager caught the attention of Liu Guoliang, this teenager left hand horizontal row, forehand front three boards, every serve full of momentum.
At that time, Kong Linghui, Liu Guozheng, Qin Zhijian and other athletes were the main training objects, all of them had extraordinary strength, but they lost in a row at the hands of this eye-catching teenager.
As soon as Liu Guoliang inquired, he learned that this teenager was called Chen Xuan and had been returned by the national team twice.
Listening to Chen Xuan's glorious experience of being "returned", and looking at the superb ball skills of the spirited young man on the field, Coach Liu gritted his teeth and was determined not to give up this good seedling.
So he tried his best to get rid of the crowd and brought Chen Xuan back to the national team again, or the first team of the national team.
In this way, Chen Xuan completed his magical experience of three in and two out of the national team, and in the following years, there was no such "thorn head" again.
The past experience seems to have precipitated Chen Xuan, and he became Liu Guoliang's big disciple, and began to receive more exquisite and rigorous training under the leadership of Coach Liu.
Chen Xuan proved with his achievements that Liu Guoliang's choice was correct.
Olympic champion and pig feeder
At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Liu Guoliang participated in the Olympic Games for the first time as a coach.
At that time, the form was out of control, the doubles Ma Lin was in a slump after the defeat in the men's singles, Kong Linghui and Wang Hao's doubles were eliminated after meeting the Swedish veteran, and the women's singles situation was not optimistic, and Liu Guoliang encountered unprecedented pressure as a leader.
At this critical moment, Chen Xuan was steady, his eyes were murderous, and he was a hand-to-hand counter-pull on the stage, followed by the first three boards hunting and oppressive, the whole process was clean and sharp, and he deterred the opponent at the beginning.
High-quality backhand, unexpected sideways counterattack, Chen Xuan achieved every fast attack is extraordinary, under his guidance, teammate Ma Lin's emotions were also mobilized, the two people perfectly cooperated, and both of them were worth fighting.
Finally, under the fierce attack of the two, there were two mistakes on the opposite side, Chen Xuan and Ma Lin won the competition and won the men's doubles championship at the Athens Olympics.
Chen Xuan became famous in a battle, and because of his distinctive playing style, he was revered as "killing gods".
For Chen Xuan, this is a great honor, the young and ambitious young general wears a garland on his head, a gold medal with his head held high and his neck high, and there is an uncontrollable smile on his face.
For Liu Guoliang, this is the most perfect answer to the country since he led the team, and his insight has allowed Chen Xuan not to miss the Olympics, and the world has not missed Chen Xuan.
In the next big and small competitions, as long as it is a men's doubles competition, Chen Xuan can be described as a singing and fruitful victory, he has been at the top of many events such as the ITTF Professional Circuit, China Table Tennis Open, and the table tennis men's team final of the 10th National Games.
"Those who win Chen Xuan get men's doubles", there was such a sentence circulating in the table tennis circle at that time, which was enough to prove Chen Xuan's high-level ball skills.
But as long as it is a person will have weaknesses, Chen Xuan is no exception, his serve is too fast, steady and ruthless serve can effectively attack the opponent, but it will also lead to his own range of action and excessive power, this shortcoming is exposed in singles.
After the fierce attack, the output of the next board could not be carried out in time and effectively, the men's singles did not have the balance of teammates, and Chen Xuan encountered the trough of his table tennis career.
We don't know the complicated emotions in his heart, but what is certain is that a player with a high pursuit of table tennis, facing such a dilemma, his heart must be full of chagrin, he holds a breath, strong and anxious.
Sure enough, the long-term depression finally broke out, in the 2006 Table Tennis Asian Cup, Chen Xuan lost again, he broke his racket like when he was 17 years old, and vented his emotions on the tables and chairs in the arena, and even "spit fragrant fragrance"!
This time Chen Xuan broke into trouble! It is not like the family in the team closing the door to solve the problem, when playing outside, the venue is full of players and media from all directions, and everyone is talking about Chen Xuan's hot temper and out of control.
Liu Guoliang was helpless, and after thinking about it repeatedly, he decided to take this opportunity to rectify Chen Xuan's bad temper, and after Chen Xuan reviewed it in front of the people of the whole country, he soon learned of his punishment decision - to go to the countryside to feed pigs.
The former Olympic champion fell to the countryside to feed pigs by mistake! Such news is also very eye-catching today, not to mention that back then, CCTV directly tracked the report to Chen Xuan to make a documentary!
The location of Chen Xuan's rural trip is Pantao Village, Zhengding, and today, when we search for this place on the Internet, we can still see the graphic introduction of Chen Xuan going to the countryside to feed pigs.
Everyone ridiculed Chen Xuan's remarks a lot, such as "the first person to feed pigs by the national hand", "successfully cross-field from China Sports Channel to China Agriculture Channel", "Tianya Outlaw Feeding Pigs", "Early Metamorphosis", etc., but Chen Xuan at that time was not angry and angry because of this punishment, on the contrary, he obediently accepted everything.
Chen Xuan, who went to the countryside, was very cooperative with the punishment given by the national team, he got up early in the morning to wash, he went to the field to plant vegetables, weed, water, he even helped the fellow villagers sweep the yard, do housework, of course, his main task is to feed the pigs.
"Is this a melon?" "Why does the earth grow grass?" "The pig has to listen to me" This decisive athlete on the court has become a hardworking and studious junior in the farmland, he earnestly weeds and picks cucumbers, and judges the two of the irascible Chen Xuan on the court.
Liu Guoliang's good intentions have paid off, and after this "Labor Transformation Metamorphosis" that belongs exclusively to Chen Xuan, Chen Xuan's whole person is peaceful, and he seems to be more calm than before.
Everything is getting better, and Chen Xuan, who has controlled his emotions, has achieved excellent results in large and small competitions at home and abroad, but for him, the bigger goal is the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
However, life was not as good as it should be, and at the Beijing Olympics in '08, the men's table tennis doubles event was canceled.
God played a huge joke on Chen Xuan.
Chen Xuan participated in the Olympics as an alternate for the benefit of the team, but he was never able to play.
How can you not be lonely, how can you not shed tears?
The youth of athletes is precious, after the Beijing Olympics, Chen Xuan played for more than 5 years, he is still the "killing god" on the court, and was also selected into the "ITTF Hall of Fame" in 2011.
But the era that belonged to Chen Xuan had passed, and like his teacher Liu Guoliang, he had also reached the age of retirement.
In 2014, Chen Xuan officially retired from the national team, and his mentor Liu Guoliang issued him a retirement certificate, which ended his career as an athlete.
Transformation of identity and retribution
After retiring, Chen Xuan did not leave the table tennis he loved, he is still active in the table tennis industry, but his identity has changed from an athlete to a coach, and he has become the head coach of the Jiangsu men's table tennis team.
In 2015, Sun Wen and Zhang Yudong, guided by coach Chen Xuan, won the men's doubles gold medal in the table tennis field of the first National Youth Games, allowing these teenagers who were only 167 to stabilize their mentality and improve their skills until they won the championship.
In 2018, Liu Guoliang served as the chairman of the Table Tennis Association, the total number of existing coaching staff is insufficient to meet the daily training needs, he urgently needs to accept new coaches as the cornerstone of the development of table tennis, he thought of Chen Xuan.
Facing this coach Liu, who sent himself to the national team for the third time in the past, but let himself feed pigs, Chen Xuan is grateful, he once said in an interview: Without Liu guidance, there would be no Chen Xuan today.
Therefore, after receiving the kind invitation of his mentor, Chen Xuan left the Jiangsu Jiangsu Men's Table Tennis Team and returned to the national team again to take on the important task of cultivating the next generation of table tennis players.
Since then, he has devoted himself wholeheartedly to his teaching career, and in 2019 he was selected as the strategic system headquarters of the Chinese Table Tennis Association for the Tokyo Olympics, and did the job that his teacher Liu Guoliang used to do - the coach of the men's first team of the national team.
The cause planted many years ago has once again borne fruit.
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Ma Long and Xu Xin won the championship one after another, and the news spread to China and the whole country celebrated - this is the pride of the people of the whole country!
And the coach who led the two champions this time was Chen Xuan.
The "thorn head" who entered three in and two out, was a world champion and coach when he was an athlete, and he also brought out a world champion!
Yin Yin's kindness, Chen Xuan repaid his mentor with his achievements, and he proved to the world again and again that Liu Guoliang's choice was correct!
The pace of progress did not stop, and later he became Sun Yingsha's interim head coach, yes, it was the "human stop rattan" Sun Yingsha, who also had a great record at the Tokyo Olympics.
This road is glory and hard work, in February 2022, Chen Xuan left the national team in order to take care of his wife and children, and chose to return to work for the Jiangsu provincial team.
But in August of the same year, when the national table tennis team needed him, he once again showed that as long as there is a need, he will do his best for the national table tennis and is willing to make his own contribution to the national table tennis national team again in the form of secondment.
In February this year, it was reported that in a video updated by the national team, we found that Sun Yingsha's sparring partner turned out to be Chen Xuan, which shows that he is still struggling on the front line, but the latest news shows that this is not credible.
Chen Xuan has never been idle, after returning to the provincial team, he also coached at Nanjing Institute of Physical Education, and in May this year, he was invited by Southeast University to work as a table tennis lecturer at the school.
The still sharp "killing god"
Recently, Chen Xuan was pushed on the cusp of the storm again, tracing back to the roots, it was because he said "mixed doubles has no real CP"!
It turns out that the table tennis players in the mainland are very good, and some athletes in the double mix cooperate too well, in addition to fans, they have also attracted a group of CP fans (referring to the situation of mixed doubles partners having a couple relationship).
This type of fan asked Chen Xuan, and the straight-talking Chen Xuan bluntly said that this matter was not as far as he knew, and also pointed out that if the partner is a couple, once there is a relationship problem, it will affect the game.
This is a hornet's nest that poked CP fans, and a group of so-called fans ran to the Weibo of the former table tennis veteran and now the table tennis coach to insult wantonly, and the content was unbearable.
Admittedly, our national table tennis deserves our pride, we can be fascinated, but only as a fan.
And this kind of private, ethereal feelings on athletes who win glory for the country, and because things backfire, they use online violence against truth-tellers, this person is still a senior in the table tennis industry, it is really ridiculous, laughing generously!
And the national ping "killing god" Chen Xuan of that year was not moved, and he was not scared by the pigs in the countryside that year, and he did not pay attention to this storm now.
But he understood that he was at fault for feeding the pigs first, but now he is not at fault.
So, he made the same choice as on the pitch - to fight back head-on, and on May 15, Chen Xuan published a short story on his social platform, presumably about a person who praised the clarity of the lake for saying the wrong thing and was retaliated by a group of people, polluting the clear lake water praised by this person, which can be said to be full of irony.
Of course, such an expression is still too tactful for Chen Xuan, and under this message, he added his resume and bluntly said: "I am now at Nanjing Institute of Physical Education, come to me!" ", can be described as a fatal blow!
Do those black fans who are clamoring on the Internet really love our table tennis?
These are not many expressions, but we can see that Chen Xuan is still sharp.
Chen Xuan did not shy away from his experience of raising pigs, in his opinion, that experience was a tempering and a growth.
In a live broadcast, some netizens asked: "Can I enter the table tennis national team at the age of 35", and Chen Xuan expressed his shock.
"I retired at the age of 30, you just started at the age of 35 and was promoted to the national team", Chen Xuan's answer was still crisp and direct, he drank saliva, thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Pigs don't accept you."
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Little! Before the 08 Beijing Olympics, the national table tennis "two kings and one horse" battle declaration, can laugh
Olympic champion Chen Xuan, 40 years old successfully transformed, married a beautiful woman 11 years younger in his second marriage, happy and happy
Chen Xuan live broadcast screen recording, Weibo
Chen Xuan CCTV documentary
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Author: Wish
Editor: Lin Yan