The hexagonal warrior Ma Long interprets what sportsmanship is
He became famous at a young age, but his years were unfavorable, but now the 36-year-old Malone is still standing on the table he loves, doing his best to swing every beat. Along the way, he has always carried the voice of being questioned, but he has broken the doubts of the outside world with his achievements. For athletes, the world is the toughest opponent and the calmest witness. Everyone lost to time, but Malone was tied with time. There is no end to all the crossroads in life, because the years will be lost to the true warriors.
Ma Long only started playing table tennis at the age of 15, and when he first started practicing table tennis, his parents just hoped that he would be able to keep fit. When Ma Long watched the table tennis game for the first time and saw the Chinese player win the championship and kiss the national flag, he made a wish, hoping that one day he would be able to win glory for the country.
So he trained hard and didn't give up every opportunity to train and compete. He went all the way from the Children's Palace to the provincial team and from the Beijing team to the national team.
18-year-old Malone participated for the first time. In the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships, Ma Long won the men's singles championship again, and even in the entire Rio cycle, he almost never lost a foreign war, from an Anshan pony to a hexagonal battle.
But in most people's minds, after the Rio Olympics, the 28-year-old should retire in a hurry. I still remember that the head coach at the time, Qin Zhijian, also asked Ma Long if they could still go to Tokyo together? But Ma Long wanted to go, because he felt that he could still play, and at that moment, Ma Long could not deeply understand the coach's meaningful words.
However, in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics, surgery became his only option, but it did not stop his burning heart. If before 2016. Ma Long's goal is to win the championship, so after the Tokyo Olympics, Ma Long's goal is to hope that he can stand in front of the table he loves and continue to play. He once told himself that even if he didn't make it to the Olympics because of an injury, he would continue to stand in front of the table and keep playing. Ma Long, who has been tormented by injuries and failures, has also asked himself, can he return to the top, and what is the point of persevering?
It was also at the darkest moment of Ma Long's career that we realized that table tennis has become an irreplaceable and inseparable part of Ma Long's life, and he will always have the love for small balls, and he does not need to be defined by the wins or losses of any game. At the Tokyo Olympics, Ma Long gave everyone a heart, and this heart was also given by Ma Long to himself, to the self who did not give up in difficult times.
In Ma Long's more than 20 years of sports career, we have seen how Ma Long faced winning and losing, and used his determination and hard work to succeed. Meantime. I also saw Ma Long's courage to start over after defeat and his belief in never giving up.
Everyone loses to time, and the short-term way to win is to use every day on the field, although time will be taken away sooner or later, so the athlete's sports career, but not today, regardless of the finish, go all out, as long as you have love, it will always be the year of the fight.
Although these are not enough to describe Malone's passionate past, they reflect the best sportsmanship.