Recently, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the lineup for the Paris Olympics, the most notable of which is that Wang Manyu, the singles champion of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, was selected for the singles of the Paris Olympics!
This has also caused heated discussions among many fans, many fans believe that Wang Manyu won eight singles championships in the Paris Olympic cycle, and the results of the competition were very good, but in the end he lost to Chen Meng, who only won two singles championships, which must be deliberately suppressed by the coaching staff!
So all kinds of conspiracy theories have arisen!
Such a familiar scene, is it very similar to the 2021 national table tennis selection squad for the Tokyo Olympics?
Before the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the national table tennis announced the lineup for the Tokyo Olympics, and the women's singles qualifiers at that time were Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, and Liu Shiwen, the singles champion of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest, was selected for singles!
At that time, it also aroused the doubts of many fans, thinking that the coaching staff was deliberately suppressing Liu Shiwen!
From Liu Shiwen to Wang Manyu, the singles champions of the two World Table Tennis Championships, why did they lose the singles competition at the Olympic Games? Is there any injustice in this?
Let's first take a look at Liu Shiwen and why she lost the Olympic singles.
Liu Shiwen won the singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup in 2019, according to normal circumstances, such results are enough to qualify for the singles competition in the Tokyo Olympics held the following year!
But everyone knows that in the Tokyo Olympics, the strongest opponent of Chinese women's table tennis is Japan's Misei Ito!
And Liu Shiwen failed twice in the game with Misei Ito! And after Liu Shiwen won the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup singles championship, she has never had the opportunity to play against Misei Ito! Liu Shiwen has been unable to prove that she has the ability to defeat Misei Ito!
In addition to not having an advantage over Ito, Liu Shiwen suffered a serious injury in 2020, which also caused Liu Shiwen's form to plummet, although Liu Shiwen took advantage of the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics and underwent surgery in time!
But after the operation, Liu Shiwen couldn't recover to her best state!
Injury + not having an advantage over Misei Ito, which eventually led to Liu Shiwen passing by with the singles qualification for the Tokyo Olympics!
So, why did Wang Manyu miss the singles at the Paris Olympics?