As the most powerful female badminton player in the hearts of many people, Zhao Yunlei's life is as legendary as her career, and in her first competition, she won two championships and one runner-up for the country.
It's just that after her success, she experienced a bloody emotional experience, which made many people sigh that Zhao Yunlei's life is even more tortuous and bizarre than her career.
So what has Zhao Yunlei been through, and what is her career like?
Zhao Yunlei, who is at the peak of her debut
In 2004, Zhao Yunlei finally entered the national team as she wished, but because she was still a newcomer, there were still strong veterans in the team, so this year's Athens Olympics. Naturally, there is no place for her.
But Zhao Yunlei did not give up, she knew that she had entered the national team, and the opportunity to play would definitely appear, so Zhao Yunlei, who entered the national team, did not have any slack and began to train non-stop.
It's just that everyone understands that Chinese badminton is an extremely strong existence in the world, and the strength of those veterans is still much stronger than Zhao Yunlei who was a fledgling at the beginning, but Zhao Yunlei did not give up, she thought that she would play one day, but this wait is a full four years.
In 2008, Zhao Yunlei With the retirement of the veterans, Zhao Yunlei and her partner were called up to the national first team and started their careers.
After that, Zhao Yunlei and her partner almost dominated the entire women's doubles field, and it took only two years to become a veritable world No. 1 in women's doubles.
In this way, Zhang Nan, whose strength was not inferior to her, became her mixed doubles teammate, but everyone did not expect that this decision eventually led to Zhao Yunlei choosing to retire at the peak of her career.
It's a pity to retire at the peak
In fact, everything has changed since 2010, when Zhao Yunlei not only had to play women's doubles but also mixed doubles, so she trained very hard to stabilize her position as the world's No. 1.
It's just that at the Asian Games this year, Zhao Yunlei's teammate in women's doubles had no way to continue to participate in the competition due to injury problems, so the team urgently found her a teammate Tian Qing.
It's just a two-person sport, after all, it is not a project that can be successful if you are strong personally, which requires two players to have a very good tacit understanding, but what everyone didn't expect is that although the two people are temporarily teamed, they seem to have a heart on the field, and the cooperation is very perfect.
In this way, under the excellent performance of the two people, they won the women's doubles championship that year, and in the subsequent mixed doubles competition, Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan, who had already run in very well, also successfully won the championship, so Zhao Yunlei won the world No. 1 in two events.
It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that Zhao Yunlei finally chose to retire at her peak, and the reason for all this was related to her two teammates.
Emotional entanglements between teammates
In 2016, Zhao Yunlei, who was at the peak of her career, and her partner Zhang Nan officially announced their relationship, which was actually no secret at the time, after all, the interaction between the two of them on the field has gone beyond the scope of teammates, more like a couple.
And the main reason why the two have not made an official announcement is also because they want to prepare for the Olympics and win glory for the country, but after the official announcement of the two people, it didn't take long for the relationship between them to change.
Originally, everyone thought that it was a gap between the two people that led to the breakup not long after the official announcement, but later people found out that the real reason was that the relationship between them involved a third person, and this person was Zhao Yunlei's women's doubles partner Tian Qing.
Not long after breaking up with Zhao Yunlei, Zhang Nan quickly announced a new relationship, and this person was Tian Qing, this matter immediately caused heated discussions, after all, these three people are members of the national team and world champions, and soon their relationship was deeply picked up by many people.
Many people looked back at this period of time, and their game videos, and clearly found that Zhao Yunlei's performance on the field obviously had a lot of problems, especially the attitude towards the two teammates, it can be said that there was no communication in the whole court, full of embarrassment.
Zhao Yunlei who was dug into the corner
During the period when the two were just officially announced, the relationship between the two sides seemed to be very sweet, and there was a lot of interaction, and even they publicly wore rings in post-game interviews, giving people a feeling that something good was about to happen.
Of course, this kind of behavior is actually very dangerous for athletes, because falling in love leads to a decline in competition performance, but because the competition between the two people after the official announcement is still very good, everyone chooses to turn a blind eye.
It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that just when everyone thought that the two of them would go to the end, Zhang Nan announced the news that the two broke up peacefully, if that was the case, the matter was not too serious, but soon after the two broke up, Zhang Nan announced his new girlfriend again.
And this so-called new girlfriend is Zhao Yunlei's women's doubles teammate Tian Qing, you must know that the two are basically seamless, not long after they broke up, they were naturally questioned by netizens when they became friendly with their ex-girlfriend's team.
Many people feel that this is digging into the best friend's boyfriend, so they began to call for the official boycott of the two people, and the dual impact of on-field and off-field factors led to Zhao Yunlei's very serious mistake in the Rio Olympics, so that the Chinese team lost the opportunity to reach the top again.
This mistake also made Zhao Yunlei very guilty, and the relationship between herself and these two teammates was too embarrassing, so she chose to retire at the peak of her career.
As soon as this incident came out, it immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of netizens, they thought that Zhao Yunlei's retirement was all caused by the other two people, although this statement was not affirmed by Zhao Yunlei, but netizens were convinced that the two people betrayed Zhao Yunlei.
Because of this, soon after this incident, Tian Qing also announced his retirement, but this incident did not affect Zhang Nan, after winning the men's doubles championship in the Rio Olympics, Zhang Nan fought for many years.
It wasn't until 2022 that he chose to quit the national team and instead participate in professional competitions as a professional player, and in 2018, Zhang Nan and Tian Qing got together, and the two also had two children.
As another party to this incident, Zhao Yunlei did not stop her pursuit of happiness, and after that, Zhao Yunlei's junior brother Hong Wei in the national team began to pursue him fiercely.
But perhaps because of a love injury, Hong Wei went through many pursuits before finally impressing Zhao Yunlei, but compared to Zhang Nan, Hong Wei gave Zhao Yunlei a great sense of security, and the two also got married in 2018.
After marriage, the two lived very happily, and Zhao Yunlei also gave birth to a lovely daughter for Hong Wei, and after that, Zhao Yunlei chose to return to the game, but not as a player, but as a national team coach, to continue to win glory for the motherland.
This matter was also supported by Hong Wei, after which Zhao Yunlei attended many activities and made very outstanding contributions to China's sports industry.
epilogue
Although we don't know who was right and who was wrong at the beginning, there is no doubt that Zhao Yunlei is a really strong and capable girl, and her success is beyond doubt.
Now Zhao Yunlei's married life is extremely happy and sweet, with a beautiful daughter and a husband who loves her, and her career is also thriving, it can be said that Zhao Yunlei really lived what she once wanted to be, isn't this a very perfect life?
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Information sources:
The Paper: Zhao Yunlei was inducted into the Hall of Fame: I just entered a new stage of sharing for the national feather
（https://m.thepaper.cn/kuaibao_detail.jsp?contid=18722882&from=kuaibao）
China News Network: Zhao Yunlei admitted to breaking up with Zhang Nan: I hope we are all well
（https://www.chinanews.com.cn/m/ty/2016/08-20/7978839.shtml）
Sina.com: Three years of hugging the two! The Chinese Olympic champion couple is happy to have a second child, and both children are happy
（https://k.sina.cn/article_5457712446_1454e153e0010109zn.html?from=sports&subch=badminton）