The Paris Olympics are getting closer and closer, and the list of national table tennis participating in the Paris Olympics is becoming clearer and clearer.
Before that, many fans expected that the national table tennis coaching staff would reuse one or two newcomers, such as Kuo Man and Lin Shidong are the new forces that many fans are looking forward to, but with the announcement of the list of the team competition of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, the standard of employment of the national table tennis coaching staff has been exposed.
Recently, the national table tennis coaching staff announced the list of participants in the team competition of the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan:
Men's team: Poof, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Yi
Women's team: Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong
The announcement of the list also means that the participants in the Paris Olympics must be selected from these people, and others have no chance at all.
Both men and women's teams are still the traditional Five Tiger Generals, why is that?
Li Falcon, the head coach who is leading the team in Hainan for closed training before the World Table Tennis Championships, explained: "Under the grand strategy of preparing for the entire Paris Olympics, we will finally determine the athletes of the men's and women's teams in accordance with the selection method. They are the best performers in the Paris Olympic cycle, the focus of our Olympic squad, and they have proven themselves through multiple tournaments, which is arguably the strongest team squad at the moment. ”
It is true that according to the world rankings, according to the Olympic selection points, these athletes are ahead of the young players, and Li Falcon's reasons are impeccable, but in reality?
The young players have been suppressed by the veteran players for a long time, and it is difficult to even get the opportunity to participate in an official regular season.
Moreover, if they are not allowed to participate, they will have no experience, and it is inevitable that they will lose small competitions, and even Lin Gaoyuan often drops the chain?
Therefore, the employment standards of national table tennis should be flexible.
Although Li stressed that the Busan World Table Tennis Championships is the last team competition before the Paris Olympics, it is also an important battle for the national table tennis team to test the results of winter training and prepare for Paris. "For us, the goal of the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan is to go all out to win the championship. We will make good use of this opportunity to hone our players and gain experience for the Paris Olympics. It is hoped that the men's and women's teams will seize the final preparation time and continue to be brilliant in the World Table Tennis Championships. ”
However, we can see that the meritocracy is still the standard for employing national table tennis, which is the biggest obstacle to the cultivation of reserve forces.
I don't know when the national table tennis will understand the essence of sports?