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In 2004, when the Olympic Games were just around the corner, just when the audience was excitedly calculating how many gold medals table tennis could win, the female table tennis player Bai Yang was actually returned to the provincial team by the national table tennis because she secretly fell in love with Ma Lin!
Table tennis fans across the country were shocked, this little girl who could beat Zhang Yining in 2000 won the title of the goddess of national table tennis at that time, and being returned was undoubtedly ruined her table tennis career.
However, other countries have offered high salaries to hope that Poplar will play for foreign countries, but she rejected them one by one: "I just want to play table tennis in China!"
But netizens didn't have time to praise Poplar for being indifferent to fame and fortune, but they didn't expect her to turn around and marry a wealthy businessman!
was confused for a while, and was returned by the national table tennis
In January 2004, on the eve of preparing for the Athens Olympic Games, a notice from the national table tennis team made many fans call it a pity.
Four players of the national table tennis team were returned to the provincial team for reflection because they fell in love in the team in violation of the rules, including Poplar, who was in the limelight at the time.
As a young genius in the table tennis world, Bai Yang can be said to be the favorite in the hearts of many audiences, and under the circumstances at that time, she may not be able to become the second Zhang Yining.
Even if she was transferred to the second team because of her unstable performance, Poplar could return to the first team with good results in the World Table Tennis Championships, and everyone thought that she would continue to win glory for the country in the next games, but an accident happened.
Coach Cai Zhenhua, who was about to rectify his discipline, found that there were people in the national table tennis team who were in love, and there were more than one couple.
The Olympics is imminent, and if these people who are in love are not educated, it will inevitably affect the next competitions, and Cai Zhenhua can only call them one by one to educate.
When it was Bai Yang's turn, Cai Zhenhua persuaded him with good words, and he euphemistically expressed that he felt that it was too early for young people to talk about their feelings, and hoped that Bai Yang would put down his emotional entanglements and concentrate on the game first.
Who thought that Poplar just refused to go down this step, this 20-year-old girl was too simple, so far she had only played ball in her life, so she had to admit that she and Marin were in a relationship in front of the coach.
This is good, Cai Zhenhua looked at Ma Lin, who had been selected into the Athens Olympic team, and could only decide to let Poplar be punished and "exiled" back to the provincial team to reflect on it.
Although he left the national table tennis team, there is no doubt about Topol's table tennis skills, and the level of the national table tennis team is leading in the world table tennis world.
For a while, all countries extended olive branches to Poplar in order to win the Olympic medal in table tennis, and the Japanese team also promised her the Olympic qualification she once dreamed of, but she only replied: "I am only willing to play table tennis on behalf of China!"
Although after this sentence was spread, Poplar's integrity and ethics were widely recognized, and the title of "Goddess of Table Tennis" became everyone's affectionate name for her, but Poplar, who only returned to the national team three years later, missed his championship dream.
The training environment of the provincial team has never been compared with the national team, and Zhang Yining, who was once a defeated general under Bai Yang, has now become a big demon king in his own right.
Faced with his youth ruined by the years and the reality that he could no longer play well, Poplar resolutely left the field after the 2007 National Games.
When everyone saw the news of Poplar again, she even had a child.
Leaving Ping Pong, still happy
In 2022, Baiyang posted a family photo on social media, and the family of three was happy, seeing that she was doing well after leaving table tennis, and the fans who used to like her were also relieved.
In fact, when she first left the table tennis arena, Bai Yang was also a little overwhelmed, and she once said in a media interview that she hoped to become a designer after retiring.
But it's easier said than done, and Baiyang, who has been dealing with table tennis for the first half of his life, has never had the opportunity to contact design-related resources.
Just when he was at a loss, Poplar's friend gave him an idea: to do a table tennis event commentary. The only obstacle is that Poplar needs to obtain the appropriate academic qualifications first.
However, the difficulty in this matter is that even if it is a special admission, the Communication University that can accept Poplar needs Poplar to achieve certain results in sports events, and the conditions for Poplar and special recruitment can be said to be very different.
After realizing that his efforts in the first half of his life were about to be cleared and his life could only start from scratch, Poplar lived an idle life in his hometown of Hebei for a period of time, until a special opportunity found Poplar.
The physique exercised in sports in the past was not wasted, and Poplar, who could afford to endure hardship, enlisted in the army in 2010 and began his long military life.
In 2020, Poplar finally survived and was promoted to colonel, and in 2021, she was even more like a fish in water, not only got a staff position, but also ushered in the great joy of her life.
The 38-year-old Bai Yang, who is still vibrant, and a wealthy businessman in Hebei got married in 2021, and the two later had a lovely child, which can be said to be a double harvest of career and love.
Seeing that Poplar was happy, the audience also flipped through Ma Lin, who had fallen in love with Poplar but did not leave the national team, and I didn't know if I didn't see it, I was really shocked when I saw it.
Compared with Bai Yang's slightly ups and downs but smooth relationship, although Ma Lin has good table tennis results, his family life is indeed a little difficult to explain.
At the beginning of 2001, the 21-year-old Ma Lin had already established a relationship with the 17-year-old Poplar, in fact, although it was not explicitly stated, the national table tennis team knew a little about the "situation" of the two of them.
Even the media guessed that when one of Ma Lin and Poplar came to the stage to compete, the director would deliberately cut the camera for the other athlete, and it was hard to say that he was not knocking CP.
But the 2004 Olympic Games are imminent, and the relationship between Ma Lin and Poplar has a great impact on the state, and the love atmosphere of the national table tennis team really needs to be rectified, so Poplar and Ma Lin were forced to separate.
Maybe the coach's original intention was just to calm them down, but they didn't expect that the relationship between Ma Lin and Bai Yang was indeed interrupted, and within half a year, Ma Lin was looking for a new love, and in August 2004, he and Zhang Ningyi received a marriage certificate.
Unexpectedly, the more shocking thing was still to come, in May 2009, Ma Lin suddenly began to coldly and violently violence against Zhang Ningyi, not only filing for divorce from her, but also slandering Zhang Ningyi for marrying him just to hype.
After discovering that Ma Lin had a suspected pregnant tattoo girl in 2010, Zhang Ningyi finally let go of his idea of making peace, officially sued Ma Lin, and even found out the fact that he and Ma Lin had known each other long before Poplar was kicked out of the national team.
This divorce drama finally ended with Zhang Ningyi taking away Ma Lin's total of 7 million starting property, and what is even more incredible is that Ma Lin quickly found a new love soon after the divorce, and held a wedding at the same time as Ma Lin announced her retirement in 2013.
After reading the complicated love history of the current women's table tennis coach Ma Lin, netizens sighed: Fortunately, Poplar and he were "beaten with a stick"!
I don't know if Poplar will regret it when he looks back and sees the youth he wasted for this person.
Years of hard work, maybe there will be regrets
Before meeting Ma Lin, the first half of Poplar's hard work can be said to be all about table tennis.
From the unintentional act of enrolling in interest classes when he was a child, to being selected for the national team at the age of 13 and being praised as a little genius, Poplar, who climbed all the way up, may have fantasized about himself wearing a flag.
Before being involved in the love turmoil, Poplar has always been a player who is favored by everyone, and at the age of 13, she was selected for the national team because of her proud record, and she was very optimistic about her from the media to the audience.
Even if he was sent to the second team because he was too young, Poplar did not give up his table tennis dream, and he surprised the coach of the national team with the continuous progress in the process of sparring.
Even in 2000, Poplar defeated Zhang Yining, who was unattainable by herself, in the national championships, which shows that her table tennis talent is beyond doubt.
Who thought that the spark of love that Poplar sparked when he was young and didn't do anything else, he forcibly buried his sports career.
epilogue
Falling in love when he was young ruined Baiyang's future in the table tennis world, and it is a pity that he did not get the honor he deserved.
Fortunately, Poplar has lost his way and has lived his own life in other fields and found new happiness in life.
I don't know if Bai Yang will regret his wrong decision when he sees Ma Lin now.
It's a pity that everything can't be done again, and Poplar and Marin have already embarked on different paths in life.
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