The 2024 Chengdu Thomas Cup Finals that just ended yesterday saw two legends appear, they are Lin Dan and Taufik, among the four kings. Suddenly it reminded me to write something.
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Lin Dan and Tawfik have both won Olympic titles and are the top two most successful of the four kings, as the other two Li Chongwei and Peter Gad have no Olympic titles, or even world titles, Taufik was the Olympic champion at Athens 2004, and Lin Dan is the reigning champion at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 respectively, and is also the record holder.
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On February 19, 2024, Tawfik talked in an interview that as early as 24 years ago, that is, in 2000, when he was ranked No. 1 in the world, that is, the biggest favorite to win the championship in the Sydney Olympics, he stood at the top of the food chain, more or less had a sense of superiority and pride, it was easy to relax his vigilance, and he was very easy to become the target of the other party's key research and important attacks.
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Sure enough, he lost to Ji Xinpeng of the Chinese team in the knockout round 8 into 4 game, Ji Xinpeng won the Sydney Olympic Games that year, this incident hit him particularly hard, and this incident also became his eternal pain.
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Sure enough, his psychological tactics worked, and in 2004 he made it all the way to the top of the podium in a low-key manner. Because he deliberately let himself behave not very well and imperfectly this year, he fell to 16th in the world ranking, which made people feel that he was talented.
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This year, China's legendary Lin Dan, but his ranking is the world's first, Lin Dan was still young at the time, and he didn't know that he had walked into the trap set by Taufik and made the same mistake as Taufik.
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As a result, in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Lin Dan was eliminated early by Singapore's naturalized Indonesian player Susilo, who was worse than Taufik's results in the Sydney Olympics.
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At Athens 2004, Tawfik, who was ranked 16th in the world at the time, was not seeded but could win the title, so he later taught Ginting and Jonatan that ranking is not everything, and that confidence in oneself should be believed. This year, Jonatan suddenly rushed to third place in the world rankings, but Ginting ranked down, is he still playing psychological tactics, it is estimated that he will not, otherwise he will not say it, Jonatan has improved a lot, it seems that he has a great chance of winning the championship in the Paris Olympics.
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Sure enough, Tawfik Jiang is still old and spicy, if he had told this secret earlier, maybe Lin Dan could win the Athens Olympics and become the Olympic champion of the three times, if this result takes several generations to catch up with the record.
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