On May 14, Beijing time, the Chinese Table Tennis Association officially announced the list of table tennis participants for the Paris Olympic Games, and the results are as follows:
Men's singles: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong
Men's team: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long
Men's P card: Liang Jingkun
Women's singles: Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng
Women's team: Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu
Women's P card: Wang Yidi
This set of 6+2 Paris Olympic lineup is not much different from the analysis and speculation of all walks of life. Because the singles qualification is strictly generated by the Olympic selection points, Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha, and Chen Meng won the singles quota, which is a product of the rules and does not involve subjective intervention. The third members of the men's and women's teams, Ma Long and Wang Manyu, are also well deserved, and under the existing main framework of national table tennis, the tonality of the two of them is the most in line with the needs of the team competition. The only thing that leaves some room for discussion to the outside world is the P card candidate, but the P card will most likely not be activated, so the value of the discussion is not great.
With the official establishment of the list of national table tennis Paris Olympics, 8 clear facts have also been born, please see the details below.
Fact 1: Ma Long 4 went to the Olympics, the first person in the prehistory and posthistory of national table tennis
Ma Long is officially confirmed to participate in the Paris Olympics, which marks that he will achieve an unprecedented 4 Olympic records in the history of national table tennis. Ma Long started his Olympic journey in London 2012, and has participated in three Olympic Games, London 2012 (men's team), Rio 2016 (men's team, men's singles), and Tokyo 2021 (men's team, men's singles), and won gold medals in all five events he participated in. This summer, Malone will be aiming for his sixth Olympic gold medal.
Fact 2: Ma Long is the oldest Olympic representative in the history of the team
Ma Long was born in 1988 and is 36 years old this year. When he competes in the Paris Olympics, Ma Long will become the oldest Olympic representative in the history of the Chinese table tennis team, a record that will also be difficult to break.
Fact 3: Chen Mengcheng is the oldest women's Olympic representative in the history of the national table tennis team
Chen Meng was 30 and a half years old when the Paris Olympics started this summer, which made her surpass Wang Nan and become the oldest female Olympian in the history of the national table tennis team. The modern scientific training system, the guarantee mechanism, as well as the super self-discipline and strong desire of the athletes themselves, make the ability difference caused by the pure age difference is gradually narrowing. Chen Meng's record of going to the Olympics at the age of 30 may not be the ultimate ceiling of national table tennis, perhaps Sun Yingsha may surpass it.
Fact 4: Samonfish has two consecutive team lineups and the responsibility pattern remains the same
Sun Yingsha-Chen Meng-Wang Manyu, who has played the team competition task for two consecutive Olympic Games, and Chen Meng/Wang Manyu has served as doubles, and the team lineup pattern and division of responsibilities have remained unchanged for two times, which is also a very rare spectacle.
Fact 5: Shatou is expected to become a single gold absorber
Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin will both play three in Paris, and they are both expected to win three gold medals on three fronts in mixed doubles, singles and team. If everything really goes well, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqinjiao have become out-and-out gold-absorbing kings with a record of 3 crowns in a single session, which is also a record that has never been broken before and will be difficult to break in the future.
Fact 6: Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi are the oldest P cards in team history
Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi are both 27 years old, and these two served as P cards, which immediately set a new age record for P card players in the history of the National Table Tennis Olympics. Since the P card system began to be used in 2008, among the four generations of P card players in national table tennis, the oldest is Chen Xi, 24 years old. The rest are all P-card players in their 20s. Da Fat and Da Di suddenly raised the age of the P card to nearly 30 years old, which further clarified a misunderstanding that people had chosen the P card before: the P card is not considering the construction of the echelon, the first choice is the immediate combat power, and the safety of the game must be 100% ensured.
Fact 7: Wang Manyu may not be able to win the Olympic singles title for the rest of his life
Wang's last-minute defeat in the singles competition means she may never win an Olympic singles title for the rest of her life. Wang Manyu will be 29 years old by the time of the next Olympics, and it is extremely difficult to predict whether she will be able to ensure that she will be stable in the top two main area in the next cycle. Even though the national table tennis women's team seems to have no successor now, if the coaching staff chooses the target and smashes resources with all their might, they will definitely be able to pile up one or two hard hands. Wang Manyu missed this battle as deep as the sea, and I am afraid that the Olympic singles will be a passerby from now on.
Fact 8: Taiyuan Station and Chongqing Saichun Training, the meaning of competition is not at all
Before the start of the Olympic Games, the national table tennis has two international competitions, namely the Taiyuan Regular Challenge and the Chongqing Championship. Previously, these two stations were also given the color of examining P card candidates, but at this moment, the full set of Olympic lineups of national table tennis has been announced, which means that Taiyuan Station and Chongqing Station have become pure training attributes, and the significance of competition within the team is basically gone.