Text: Zhou Yixiu
Editor|Shijiazhuang lawyer Zhang
From the perspective of the whole world, there are only a handful of world champions in sports events.
Some went from being an unknown athlete to becoming a world champion.
Some have been working hard for many years, and finally won the crown when they were about to retire.
But there is one athlete whose career is very regrettable.
She has won the jackpot in major tournaments, whether it is the World Table Tennis Championships or the World Cup, whether it is Asia, Europe or the Americas, she has conquered her.
Who would have thought that when she was standing at the peak of her career, cancer was quietly approaching her.
One
Like the growth path of the legendary world champion, Zhu's table tennis growth trajectory is also so glorious.
Born in 1995, she has shown an extreme love for table tennis since she was a child.
She started training at the age of five, and her parents supported her unconditionally.
Because of the family's favorable conditions, her parents bought her a table tennis table and put it at home, and also found a private tutor to teach her one-on-one.
Perhaps it is this kind of all-encompassing conditions that Zhu saved time to catch the bus to the training center since he was a child.
She can devote all her energy to table tennis.
Sure enough, as a talented player, at the age of 8, she was favored by the provincial training team.
No one knows how much she suffered during her four years with the provincial team.
But when she was 12 years old, she was able to represent the provincial team and go around the game.
Three years later, she was spotted by the second team of the national team and began to train here.
But at this time, coach Chen Zhenjiang found that she had a very big problem.
That is, Zhu's training is far less hard than that of other team members, and he seems a little lazy.
Maybe it's because her family environment is too good, and she has a different feeling from those players who were born as "bitter children".
It's a place where all the other athletes want to spend all their time eating and sleeping training.
Zhu's personality does seem to be out of place in the atmosphere here.
But Zhu's talent is too dazzling, and the coach doesn't want to be a "genius" wrong, so he doesn't do much work for Zhu.
But no matter what the coach says, Zhu's change is minimal, and there is a big gap with expectations.
Once, the coach was really anxious and scolded loudly:
"You have to continue like this, you won't be in the second team for long, don't think about the first team, you can only go back to the provincial team, think about what your teammates who were returned to the provincial team by the second team are like."
For a moment, Zhu felt the seriousness of this matter.
If you retreat to the provincial team, you will be eliminated by the national team, and your self-esteem will not allow it.
What's more, he has to suffer countless discussions and ridicule from the people around him.
From this day on, she was like a different person, without being supervised, and practiced desperately.
Who would have thought that a bright new star would rise at this time.
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Zhu's training has become extraordinarily focused and rigorous, and he has also discovered a big shortcoming in his skills.
That is, if she encounters a large angle of reversal, she will never be able to keep up with the pace under her feet.
This is a flaw that can be easily exploited by opponents for table tennis players.
To solve this problem, she has no other way but to run laps on the track and field.
This sudden high-intensity exercise made Zhu more and more unbearable.
After a long time, I was physically and mentally exhausted.
She had thought about giving up countless times, and every time she called her parents, the words came to her lips and she swallowed them again.
After all, let's look at Zhu's wealthy family, and there are many ways to success. She was also just a 15-year-old at the time, and everything was understandable.
In July 2010, she defeated Ai Fukuhara and Sayaka Hirano to reach the finals at the Japan Tour, but unfortunately ended up in second place.
In the same year, she won the women's singles and women's doubles championships at the World Youth Championships, and with this outstanding performance, she began to enter the first team of the national team.
Although the team at that time was all powerful generals, Zhu was not afraid at all, but worked hard and became more and more courageous.
At an open tournament two years later, she swept the main team of the women's team and won the championship in one fell swoop.
For a time, attention was paid to this powerful female general at home and abroad.
In 17 and 18 years, Zhu stood at the peak of women's table tennis in these two years.
During this time, she not only won the Asian Cup women's singles championship, but also won the women's singles championship of the World Cup.
With such a proud record, the outside world has always believed that Zhu will become the "leader" and "backbone" of Chinese women's table tennis.
But at a mediocre Open in '18, things changed.
A Japanese player named Misei Ito suddenly entered.
also defeated Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning successively to enter the finals.
At first, people didn't care, after all, Zhu also broke into the finals, and the game was won and lost, which was not a big deal.
But in the final, Zhu Yuling lost the game 0:4, which was a complete defeat.
For a while, there was a lot of discussion, but more people still responded with a tolerant attitude, after all, everyone has a time when the horse stumbles.
Adjust your condition and fight again. Everyone also gave her more encouragement.
However, for some reason, Zhu's state began to fall again and again.
In an open tournament in 2019, she lost again to Mimato Ito.
This loss not only lost the qualification for the World Table Tennis Championships that year, but she also failed to participate in the Tokyo Olympics.
Four
This extremely abnormal state was finally solved in a hospital test.
When she was 26 years old, she was diagnosed with a tumor in her body, so she began to treat it wholeheartedly.
She has also posted her status on social media.
After aggressive treatment, she is now finally getting a lot better.
He has been successfully cured, walked out of the ward, and began to heal himself.
But it should be impossible to get back on the sports field and regain the form and level at the top of your game.
Some people may be curious, what is Zhu Yuling doing now?
Today, 28-year-old Zhu Yuling has become an associate professor at the Department of Physical Education of Tianjin University.
She taught her table tennis skills to students for so many years, and told her students about her experience and insights over the years.
There were still many fans who regretted it before, wanting to know whether Zhu still had the confidence and strength to return to the national team.
They also want to see the former god of war in the arena again. After all, Zhu never announced that he was going to retire.
Now that Zhu has become a university professor, the chances of her returning to the national team are also very small.
In fact, Zhu's family has been very wealthy since childhood. Even if she doesn't take the road of table tennis, his hundreds of millions of fortunes are enough for her to enjoy for a lifetime.
However, she still insisted on her own ideas, even when she was young, she had been exposed to various specialties of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she still resolutely chose table tennis.
Now he has not chosen to return to the ring, and his father also wants her to take over his family business, but Zhu refuses.
Instead, she decided to become a professor at the university, which was also her choice without regrets. However, this decision is indeed admirable.
epilogue
Now, let's revisit Zhu's experience. If she hadn't been affected by cancer, she might have won more gold medals and had a longer peak.
But this may be the charm and frustration of competitive sports.
Some athletes have a chance to get back to the top or create greater brilliance after rehabilitation.
And some athletes can only silently withdraw from the arena they once loved and struggled for.
But for Zhu, it is also a blessing in misfortune.
Even if you quit the field and become a professor at a sports university, you can still work in sports.
It can be regarded as making up for the regret in her heart!