Recently, the national table tennis announced the list of participants in the Paris Olympics, and Chen Meng beat Wang Manyu to obtain the Olympic women's singles qualification, which also caused heated discussions. Domestic reporter He Xiaolong previously released a news to support Wang Manyu to participate in the Olympic singles, his reason is very simple, in the Olympic cycle, Wang Manyu won 8 championships, Chen Meng 2, and compared with the gold content of the singles championship, Wang Manyu is also better, not to mention the World Table Tennis Championships team competition to turn the tide.
However, for some reason, He Xiaolong deleted this news soon after, probably facing great pressure, and then he also posted a meaningful news on social media, "Although the Chinese Football Association and Chinese football have made a lot of mistakes, they can accommodate different voices here, can accept all kinds of criticism, and can face social supervision with a correct attitude, Chinese football is open, inclusive, generous, brave, and can face its own shortcomings."
And 1 day later, He Xiaolong announced on social media that he would stop for three days, and it seems that things have made a big fuss. However, He Xiaolong posted again on May 18, and he didn't know who it was in.
"I had a dream last night, in which I announced to the world that my time had finally come, and even though I woke up from the dream and found that there was such a big gap between reality and my dream, it did not prevent me from staying in my dream." As we all know, after Chen Meng of national table tennis won the women's singles gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she said to the camera, "My time has come."
However, since the Tokyo Olympics, Chen Meng's performance has not been satisfactory, and she has not won the singles title for nearly 800 days, which is too long. In the women's singles competition for the Paris Olympics, she gradually fell behind Wang Manyu, but at the 2024 Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, Chen Meng defeated many Japanese table tennis world champions in a row, including Miu Hirano, Miwa Zhang and Hina Hayata, and defeated her teammate Sun Yingsha in the final, thus surpassing Wang Manyu in the Olympic selection points and successfully qualifying for the singles of the Paris Olympics.
Chen Meng did seize the opportunity, she was tantamount to killing Wang Manyu before the national table tennis announced the Olympic list. If you look at the rules, the top two national table tennis women's singles players in the Olympic selection points have qualified for the Paris Olympics, and there is no controversy about Chen Meng's shortcoming, but many fans feel that the time announced by the women's team and the men's team is inconsistent, the men's team was announced before the Saudi Grand Slam, and the women's team has to wait until after the Saudi Grand Slam, the selection rules are not uniform, and there is another point, the national table tennis does not seem to use the results of 2021 and 2022 as a reference for selection, but Wang Manyu is the period when he has won the championship with the highest frequency in these two years. And Chen Meng fell into a championship drought.
I agree with one of He Xiaolong's views, whether it is Chinese football or Chinese table tennis, we should accept all kinds of different voices, but the Olympic women's singles quota has been set and cannot be changed. However, Chen Meng is the women's singles champion of the Tokyo Olympics, she has more experience in the Olympic arena, and hopes to prove herself with the women's singles gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.