Asian Games Past|South Korea's home home is a demon at the doorstep, and the powerful national table tennis national feather is helpless
Sports competitions have "devil's home", home can become the "devil" in the eyes of the away team, mainly for two reasons: one is that the host sits at home majestic, the other is the high altitude of the field away team is difficult to adapt, Bolivian football team's home stadium Siles Stadium, NBA Jazz's Viinter Smart Home Arena, badminton's Senayan Stadium, are all famous "Devil's Home" in international sports. Of course, no matter how powerful these home stadiums are, they are limited to only one event, and if the multi-sport has a "devil home", it will really become a super "devil". There really is international sports, and for example, the two-week Asian Games, South Korea continues to create myths at home.
In the fall of 1986, the 10th Asian Games were held in Seoul, South Korea (Note: it was called Seoul at that time), which was the first time in the history of South Korea to host a large-scale comprehensive international competition. The Olympic Games have a "host phenomenon", as well as the Asian Games, and the "host phenomenon" means that the host takes advantage of holding a comprehensive sports event, and the overall performance will be significantly improved. In China, for example, it won 32 gold medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics and rose to 48 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, topping the Olympic gold medal list for the first time. In contrast, South Korea's hosting effect is much more pronounced, with the Korean Legion winning 28 gold medals at the 9th Asian Games in 1982, and the number of gold medals at the Asian Games held on the doorstep four years later suddenly rose to 93, a staggering increase.
In just 4 years, the number of gold medals has nearly quadrupled, and the improvement of its own strength is a factor, and the key is to use external forces, when the host's desire for gold medals reaches an almost barbaric realm, as long as you dare to think about it, you can fight for it by any means. In this regard, even the national table tennis and national feathers, which are big in the world arena, are difficult to escape when encountering such a host.
The men's badminton team final at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul was played between Chinese and Korean teams, and a few months earlier the Chinese men's team won the Thomas Cup and is recognized as the world's number one team. Of course, the host South Korea cannot be taken lightly, and in the semi-final unexpectedly defeated Thomas Cup runner-up Indonesia. At that time, the Korean team was very strong in doubles, with first-class combinations such as Park Joo Bong / Kim Mun-so, the world's No. 1 men's doubles, but the singles event was weak.
In the first set of the China-Korea showdown, Yang Yang, the first singles of the Chinese team, was successively judged by the referee as a serving foul and stepped on the line. Conversely, South Korea's Sung Han-kook (note: South Korea's Sung Ji-hyun's father) was judged to be inside the bounds on several occasions. Yang Yang has always been known for his good psychological quality, and in such an unfair environment, it is difficult for him to change the situation, and the world champion was defeated by his opponent 16:18 after leading 8-2 in the first game. In the second game, Yang Yang was still 1 person against many people, and the opponent was not only Cheng Hanguo, but also the referee and lineman, and lost another game. In the next few sets of the final, the Chinese players still played with many people, and in the end, the South Korean team won the championship as they wished. A team that has never reached the team final in the international arena actually won the Asian Games team championship in the Asian Games with two top teams in the international badminton arena on its doorstep.
The unscrupulous behavior of the hosts caused displeasure among journalists from various countries present, and one Thai journalist said that South Koreans are famous for this and that they will show their stuffing when they play in third countries. Indonesian team "Emperor Superstar" Lin Shuijing commented, this is a barbaric game!
That Asian Games national badminton was lucky, after all, the women's team championship was not lost, the most unlucky was the national table tennis, actually lost the men's and women's team championships. National table tennis has been at the peak of the world table tennis for many years, and since 1959, it has been able to beat the national table tennis in the men's and women's team events in a competition, and the World Table Tennis Championships have not appeared, and the South Koreans actually did it in the Asian Games. Let's take a look at the national table tennis lineup of the Seoul Asian Games, the men's team is composed of Jiang Jialiang, Chen Longcan, Teng Yi, Chen Xinhua, Hui Jun, of which the first 4 are members of the 1985 World Table Tennis Championships men's team champion team; The female team members are Geng Lijuan, Dai Lili, Jiao Zhimin, He Zhili, they are all famous top masters. Such a luxurious lineup, meeting the host team but helpless, can only say that the home stadium of the South Koreans can be called "super devil".
The strange phenomenon of the Seoul Asian Games is not only in the table badminton competition, but also in shooting, gymnastics, boxing and other sports. The most amazing was the boxing match, where the South Korean team won 12 gold medals in one fell swoop, and the one-sided situation felt that even the Korean audience felt that it was too much, and some viewers called the local newspaper to say that it was a discredit to the country.
Of course, no matter how eager South Koreans are to grab gold, there will be "limits", and in athletics, swimming, weightlifting, which pass the time and weight score, it is difficult for the host to rely on external forces to win. The penultimate competition day of the Seoul Asian Games ended with 92 gold medals each, and on the last day the Chinese team was expected to win the men's and women's 4x100m relay in athletics. The situation dictates that the Chinese Legion must win two gold medals in the relay event to possibly sit on the top spot in the gold medal table at the Seoul Asian Games. Under pressure, Zheng Chen and other national players defeated themselves, and they worked closely together to win two gold medals in a row, and finally the Chinese Legion once again reached the top of the gold medal table with a slight advantage of one gold medal.
The 2002 Asian Games and the 2014 Asian Games were held in Busan and Incheon, South Korea. In those two competitions, South Koreans were still the nightmare of table badminton national players, the Busan Asian Games had Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, two super first-class masters of the Chinese women's table tennis lost team gold medal, and the 2014 Incheon Asian Games Chinese men's badminton once again became the host's defeat.
The two "dream teams" of the international sports arena have repeatedly lost to the same host in the Asian Games, and the magic of the South Korean's home stadium has to be impressive. 20 years ago, a domestic magazine published an article about Korean sports, with a unique and intriguing title: South Korea, the "fierce" brother who sleeps on our upper bunk.
(Wang Quanli)