On May 17, Beijing time, 72 hours have passed since the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the list of participants in the Paris Olympics.
And at this moment, for Wang Manyu, it is the opening of another special record: Wang Manyu has not updated social media for 353 days! Among the 8 Olympic representatives of national table tennis, her move is unique and different!
Wang Manyu's Weibo was last updated on May 30, 2023, after the end of the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, Wang Manyu posted a group photo of the national table tennis team on Weibo, with the text:
The World Table Tennis Championships in Durban is over, congratulations to my best partner Sasha for winning the championship, and congratulations to every teammate who has achieved good results, the Chinese team has won all five championships, which is extremely honorable. Thanks to the Table Tennis Association, thanks to all the staff of the team for their dedication and protection, so that we can devote ourselves to the game, thank Li Zhi for encouraging me to make me believe in myself when my state fluctuates, thank Director Ma for helping me prepare and summarize the game, thank Director Xu for his dedication and companionship during the competition, every time I experience a competition, it will be a transformation, all experiences are valuable, believe in myself!
It can be seen that Wang Manyu's mentality and emotions were generally good at that time. At that time, the national table tennis had already released the Olympic selection rules, and there was almost exactly one year left before the Paris Olympic squad was released.
When stepping on the final sprint track, Wang Manyu was undistracted and confident.
In the nearly year that followed, Wang Manyu had ups and downs in the ecology of competing for the Olympic squad, meandering forward. Before the arrival of the Saudi Grand Slam, she had almost completed a change of life, reaching the final with three consecutive selection tournaments and winning one championship and two runners-up, Shengsheng turned her huge backwardness into a lead over Chen Meng. But the result is known to everyone, she lost 1-3 to Batra in the second round of the Saudi station, and Chen Meng challenged the three main forces of the Japanese table tennis Olympic lineup in the Saudi Arabian station.
In the past year, Wang Manyu is obviously the one who bears the most psychological pressure, which can be seen from her behavior of stopping Weibo and being silent for 353 days.
In fact, Wang Manyu is not a complete I physique, she was also quite open to the sun before. With a common smile and a stretched expression, Wang Manyu is at least half of the E people.
But in the past year, Wang Manyu has completely locked up his e-human attributes. According to her previous rules of Weibo, when she gets good results, participates in public welfare activities and stands up for advertisers, Wang Manyu will "report in time" on Weibo. In fact, all three of these situations have happened to the eel during the year - she has won the Singapore Grand Slam singles title, attended the public welfare event of the Olympic champion on campus, and has a new collaboration with advertiser Stica, but she has not been touched the whole time, and there is no feedback at all.
What does this unusual, even anti-conventional, attitude indicate? What is reflected? And what does it portend?
Looking at the other 7 national table tennis players selected for the Olympic squad, everyone has maintained their activity on social media, and each of them has also encountered their own "darkest moment" in the past year.
Sun Yingsha has lost foreign battles in Busan, and has failed to win the two most lucrative Grand Slam tournaments in terms of prize money and points. But she has a movement on Weibo.
Wang Chuqin was withdrawn from the Incheon Championship, and the Macau World Cup was swept by his eldest brother Ma Long. But he posted it on Weibo.
Ma Long has lost many foreign wars this year, and has been suspected for a long time of being "old and unbearable, occupying a position and not giving way to young people", but he also clearly declared his state of mind.
Fan Zhendong has been unlucky in the past year, losing foreign wars, losing his junior brother, being bullied by the Internet when he watched a concert, being harassed by leaking his ID card, having no crown for more than 300 days, and losing the world's No. 1 throne, but he still firmly spoke up for himself and confessed to the world.
Chen Meng has been on a roller coaster for a year, and the huge ups and downs are enough to torture people to the point of collapse, but she gritted her teeth and carried it to the end, and finally kept her own Yunkai Yueming.
Liang Jingkun this year, how many times have people celebrated with their foreheads, how many times have they made people jump and scold, and even countless times they were almost beaten by the coach, but he still bravely set a flag for himself.
Wang Yidi has actually been the most tragic this year, starting from the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, she has gradually become a "thousand-pointed" Japanese-phobic player, and was rudely and directly deprived of the right to compete in Olympic singles.
Only Wang Manyu, silent, silent, like facing a wall, as if he was fighting against the world.
Now, Wang Manyu's fans are still making a last-ditch fight for a comeback. The last straw they grasped now was:
According to the procedures provided by the national diving team and weightlifting team, the Olympic list needs to go through a 15-day internal review process before it is published. The list of the national table tennis Olympics was announced on May 14, and the national table tennis coaching staff should have submitted the list on April 29, and at that time, Wang Manyu's world volleyball and Olympic selection points and rankings were above Chen Meng. Therefore, this is an illegal operation of the national table tennis secretly crossing Chen Cang.
But is that really the case? Under the current working mode, will there be a "review process within 15 days before publicity"? What system would dare to be so lazy, so inefficient, so redundant, so procrastinating? In addition, the national table tennis team clearly announced the Olympic selection optimization rules during the Singapore Grand Slam in mid-March, and it was noted in black and white that "the Saudi Grand Slam is the last stop of the selection". At that time, Wang Manyu's selection ranking lagged behind Chen Meng, and everyone could see that the coaching staff obviously wanted to give Wang Manyu a chance.
Figuratively speaking, Wang Manyu is like a student who has scored excellent + in all mock exams, but has failed the college entrance examination. Is it meaningful to question "the unfairness of the college entrance examination"? Is it possible to "not judge heroes by the college entrance examination, but by the overall performance before the college entrance examination"?
Therefore, Wang Manyu actually lost to Batra, an outsider, and even more to his own heart. She had won all 5 matches against Batra before, why did she lose in Saudi Arabia? She has always taken the initiative in competition, as long as she does her best, as long as she keeps the bottom line of foreign wars, she can properly win the Olympic singles qualification, and she doesn't need to look at Chen Meng's face at all. It's a pity that she still lost in her own mentality, and she couldn't resolve the huge pressure with all her beards and tails.
353 days (it seems that it will be longer) self-locking, which is not normal for young people in the current era, especially idol figures like Wang Manyu. Psychological toughness is an indispensable part of the strength assembly. What Wang Manyu still needs to strengthen and improve is the top priority.
Wang Manyu's fellow Qiqihar countryman Zhang Xuefeng promised that at the end of the Olympic Games, Wang Manyu would be rewarded with 1 million yuan alone, regardless of the results. This is a warm hand for Wang Manyu to untie the knot, I hope Wang Manyu can realize the crux of his problem, and tell himself again "I am still young, I can come again"!