The national table tennis has announced the complete list of participants in the Paris Olympics, including substitute players, in this list, the women's team will discuss a little more, especially Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, including Wang Yidi's selected identities, especially the singles Chen Meng and Wang Manyu's competition, which has caused extensive discussion among fans and has also caused great controversy. Just after the list was announced, in fact, the first national table tennis players to respond to this list were not members of the controversial women's team, but Fan Zhendong, who was selected for the Olympic singles and team men's team lineup early, became the first to respond to the national table tennis list.
Fan Zhendong came just eight hours after the Chinese table tennis team announced their squad for the Paris Olympics. sent out this list on his personal social dynamics, accompanied by a short speech, and wrote the last dance in English, which is also imaginative. Obviously, what Fan Zhendong means is that this year's Paris Olympics is the last Olympics of his career, which seems to be announcing to the outside world that Fan Zhendong will probably complete his career retirement before the age of 31 and will no longer be a national table tennis athlete.
Fan Zhendong regards the Paris Olympics as his last Olympic Games, that is to say, he will not participate in the Los Angeles Olympics four years later, which is more or less a pity, because Fan Zhendong was only 31 years old when he was in the Los Angeles Olympics, although this age is indeed a bit big in a highly competitive team like national table tennis. However, there are still athletes who can play the main role of national table tennis at this age, and there are not a few players who participate in the Olympic Games.
For example, Fan Zhendong's first trip to the Olympics was the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, when his two teammates Xu Xin and Ma Long were all over 31 years old. But now it seems that according to Fan Zhendong's plan, at least he would have withdrawn from the national team at that time, and as for whether he was a table tennis player, it was hard to say.
In fact, from Fan Zhendong's performance for more than a year, it can be clearly felt that his desire for the competition and the championship is not so strong. For more than a year, Fan Zhendong has not won any singles championships. In addition to the injury, you can feel through the competition that his enthusiasm for the game and this level of dedication is very different from a year ago, which is perhaps one of the very important reasons for his decline. He is still ranked second in the world rankings, but he is already drifting away from No. 1 Wang Chuqin.
However, I believe that this Paris Olympics will still go all out for Fan Zhendong, because if he wins the Olympic championship this time, Fan Zhendong will complete the Grand Slam of his career and become another athlete to win a Grand Slam after Ma Long. At the same time, if Fan Zhendong really retired at the Los Angeles Olympics, this Olympics will be his last Olympics, and he will also lose the opportunity to catch up with Ma Long's record. If Fan Zhendong can continue to participate in the next Los Angeles Olympics and win the team championship in this Olympics and the Los Angeles Olympics, he will be the only athlete in the Olympics like Ma Long who can win the gold medal in table tennis for three consecutive Olympic Games, but according to Fan Zhendong's personal dynamic meaning, Paris is his last stop in the Olympic Games.