At the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan, Tomoli Koyama, who represented Japan, shouted "Yo Xi" after defeating the "Great Demon King" Deng Yaping, which deeply pierced the hearts of the Chinese people.
In this way, Koyama Zhili became a "traitor" and "traitor" that everyone shouted and beaten. Why does a Japanese win the championship only to suffer so much hostility from the Chinese people?
Just because, "Xiaoshan Zhili" was the female national player of the Chinese national table tennis team, He Zhili. Surprisingly, she chose to retire at the height of her life and became a Japanese citizen to play for Japan.
Wearing a Japanese team uniform and shouting "Yo Sai", she helped Japan win the championship, why did the "world champion" who was supported by the Chinese people at the beginning become a Japanese citizen?
The champion retires
In 1987, He Zhili won the 39th World Table Tennis Championships, which attracted worldwide attention, and media reporters reported her heroic achievements.
What is strange to everyone is that in the next Seoul Olympics, He Zhili should have been expected, but her name was not on the final list of participants.
Then came the news that He Zhili quit the Chinese national table tennis team and married Japan, and when I learned her news later, He Zhili had already become a Japanese citizen, changed her name to "Koyama Zhili", and represented Japan in the competition.
This decision caused an uproar at the time, and many people could not understand her choice, after all, she has a high reputation and influence in China, and in Japan, everything has to start from scratch.
But in fact, the reason why He Zhili did this was because she was treated "unfairly" by her coach at that time.
"Handicap" turmoil
At that time, the mainland table tennis team was facing great pressure and challenges, so in order to ensure that China could get more medals, the coach would strictly follow the comprehensive level to ensure that the person with the highest winning rate won.
Specifically, it is necessary to "let the ball control points" in the PK of the same team, so that the winning rate can be greatly guaranteed. Of course, this practice has long been phased out, but at the time, it seemed to be the "only" way.
So in that match in 1987, because the biggest competitor was South Korea's Liang Yingzi, and He Zhili lost in the previous duel with him, it seems that Guan Jianhua, a member of the same team, will have a greater chance of winning.
So, the coach arranged for He Zhili to "concede" in the PK with Guan Jianhua afterwards to ensure that she could naturally face Liang Yingzi, which was also the safest way to win.
But at that time, He Zhili did not approve of this approach at all, and even directly eliminated Guan Jianhua with a score of 3-0 in a very angry mood.
After that, he successfully defeated Liang Yingzi in one go and won the championship of the 39th World Table Tennis Championships. He Zhili is very proud of such a result, because she has achieved it by herself.
But such good news completely angered the national table tennis coach, not only did he not praise him, but he waited for a stern reprimand, and even faced punishment when he returned to China.
After all, they are fighting for the country, and if they win this time, they can explain to the Chinese people, but who can ensure that they will always win the championship? Therefore, He Zhili's disobedience to the command completely made the coach have a thorn in his heart......
Disgruntled with the coach's decision to retire disappointed
After this incident, He Zhili was "squeezed out" by her coach and teammates, and she did not get the championship courtesy she deserved after returning to China, and no one even congratulated her.
Although with the help of her mentor Sun Meiying, Ho Zhili was finally exempted from punishment, she still received a notice from the national team asking her to take a break, and the conflict broke out at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
At that time, He Zhili was already an extremely outstanding table tennis national player in China, and she was naturally riveted in the face of the upcoming Olympic Games, after all, this is the dream of every Chinese who wants to win glory for the country.
Although she has been given a lot of cold reception before, He Zhili still feels that her strength is undoubted and she will definitely be able to compete for the country, but she did not expect that after comprehensive consideration, the coach did not have He Zhili's name on the final list.
As soon as the list was announced, it immediately caused an uproar, but after careful consideration, He Zhili still did not participate in the Olympic Games.
You must know that participating in the Olympic Games is every athlete's dream, not to mention that this is the first time that table tennis has become a participating event in the Olympic Games, and the importance is self-evident.
But how could He Zhili not be disappointed when she watched her dream go away? What's more, she didn't think there was anything wrong with the "temporary change of hexagram" at the beginning, but in the end she got such a result.
He Zhili, who was treated coldly like this, knew in her heart that the Chinese table tennis world would never have its own place again. So after careful consideration, she chose to quit the Chinese national table tennis team and retired, so why did she become a Japanese citizen later?
"Tomotoshi Koyama"
The reason why she joined the Japanese nationality to play for the sun is because He Zhili still retains her love for table tennis in her heart, and she is not willing to give up just like that.
In addition, the golden career of an athlete is only a few years, and she also wants to take this opportunity to play her dazzling record in the field of table tennis.
So after retiring, she married far away to Japan, and then became a Japanese citizen and officially changed her name to "Koyama Zhili". During this time, Tomoli Koyama's husband also accompanied her in training. After that, Tomo-Koyama began to fight for the sun.
Shouting "Yo Xi" provoked public outrage
At the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games, Deng Yaping, a table tennis grand slam player from the mainland, and Tomori Koyama, a representative of Japan, had a fierce duel.
But because Xiaoshan Zhili's offensive was too fierce, Deng Yaping couldn't prevent it, and Xiaoshan Zhili scored a point, and then it was difficult to suppress her excitement, and she raised her arms and shouted the sentence "Yo Xi".
After that, he successfully defeated Deng Yaping with a score of 3-1 and successfully won the Asian Games championship. At that time, it was not only the audience who watched the game, but also the people sitting in front of the TV.
So when I saw Tomoli Koyama, an excellent national player who originally went for China, but now he shouted "Yo West", standing on the podium in a dignified manner, and the Japanese flag was raised behind him.
This scene aroused great anger among the people, and there was no shortage of words such as "traitor" and "traitor" everywhere He Zhili went.
Faced with the accusations of the Chinese who cut her head and covered her face, Koyama Zhili had to repeatedly explain that her shouting "Yo Xi" had no other meaning, but the Chinese people could not forgive.
After that, Koyama Zhili still enjoyed every table tennis event, but she didn't expect that her husband, who was very supportive of her career, would cheat.
Unable to bear it, Koyama finally divorced her husband, but still settled in Japan, but due to work and family relations, she had to travel back and forth between Japan and Shanghai, and officially retired in 2006.
Today's Koyama Zhili is over sixty years old, but her love for table tennis will never be extinguished, and the situation is similar to that of Koyama Zhili.
"Forgetting the Ancestors"
Zhang Benzhihe, formerly known as Zhang Zhihe, ancestral home in Sichuan, his parents are athletes in the Chinese table tennis world, for the future development of his table tennis career, in 2014, Zhang Zhihe joined the Japanese nationality and changed his name to "Zhang Benzhihe".
After that, Tomokazu Zhang represented Japan in a number of table tennis tournaments and won many awards, and he was only 15 years old at the time, so he was known as a "genius boy".
However, because of his practice of joining the Japanese nationality, Tomokazu Zhang was still abused and accused by countless Chinese people, calling him "forgetting his ancestors".
Although it is always said that "sports have no borders", in the face of these Chinese who have joined the Japanese nationality, we still cannot really care only about the competition itself. After all, what Japan has done to us is a fact that every Chinese cannot forget.
In order to pursue her career dream, Koyama Zhili resolutely withdrew from the national team, married into Japan, became a Japanese citizen, and played for the sun, and she also suffered a lot of abuse and paid a lot of price.
Now looking at the high-spirited champion He Zhili at the beginning, it is inevitably a little embarrassing.
Information sources: 1. China News Network, Information Times - "He Zhili: I am no longer an "overseas army" and will never coach in the future, February 29, 2008.
2. CCTV: "The Truth of He Zhili's Turmoil - Victim? or Rebel?", March 9, 2007.