In addition to Deng Yaping, in fact, there is a legend in Chinese women's table tennis, who won honor for the Chinese team, let the world see the style of Chinese women's table tennis, and let the world cheer for the Chinese team.
After retiring, she trained countless talents for the country. Now that she is over the age of six, she is still running for the country's sports cause, and her name is enough to go down in the history of Chinese sports.
She is the "first sister of Chinese women's table tennis" Cao Yanhua.
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Cao Yanhua is a native of Shanghai and has an ordinary family background, but her parents have always paid great attention to the cultivation of their children, and Cao Yanhua's career path was really determined when she was 5 years old.
At that time, there was a wave of "national table tennis" craze, mainly for two reasons, the first was the 1959 World Table Tennis Championships, Rong Guotuan's victory inspired the hearts of all Chinese people. Since then, everyone has the two concepts of "sports" and "champion" in their hearts, and at that time, everyone really realized that if China wants to develop, the only way to let sports go abroad and rush to the world.
Therefore, in the past ten years, everyone has paid great attention to the development of sports.
When Cao Yanhua was 5 years old, her parents found out that she had a talent for table tennis, so they began to find a teacher to train her.
And Cao Yanhua is not only talented, but also very hard-working.
In order to practice table tennis well, she had to be more efficient in her studies than other classmates. It is precisely in this way that Cao Yanhua has developed the habit of learning quickly since she was a child, although it is very tiring, but it is very fulfilling, and she has not fallen behind because of practicing table tennis.
In 1975, Cao Yanhua, who was only 13 years old, participated in the table tennis championship and won the championship with his strength! Since then, he has entered the Shanghai table tennis team, and two years later he has entered the national team.
At that time, it was the National Table Tennis Championships, and Xu Yinsheng, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, discovered Cao Yanhua, and he found that Cao Yanhua had her own characteristics in playing, and these characteristics were the "secret weapons" that allowed her to defeat her opponents in the future.
Cao Yanhua is a straight board play, called "straight board arc ball combined with fast attack", no strength of the player, can not catch her a few rounds, she to attack and defend, especially the unique "high throw serve" is her trick, suddenly change the board when serving, so that the opponent can not see her routine, kill the opponent by surprise.
Moreover, Cao Yanhua also created the "women's straight board single-sided pull in Taiwan", this style of play also requires a certain amount of strength, she can master it proficiently, and it is after a lot of practice.
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As the saying goes, "one minute on the stage and ten years of work off the stage", any professional skill is the effect accumulated through countless exercises, no matter how hard the training, Cao Yanhua has never complained.
Without intense training, there would be no future world champions.
In the National Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua achieved good results and has been resounding in the sports world since then.
At the age of 16, Cao Yanhua entered the team competition and won the world championship, winning 7 championships at the World Championships! Cao Yanhua, who is still underage, is already standing in the center of the halo and has attracted much attention.
As a result, Cao Yanhua, who was in the aura, began to lose herself. It has always been her parents who have been planning for her before, and she herself has never thought about it, she will rely on playing table tennis to eat in the future, since becoming a world champion, Cao Yanhua no longer listens to her parents, plus she is usually busy with training, and she will not call home often, so such a rebellious girl was born.
She began to fall in love with the male team members, and followed some team members to fool around outside, often not returning to the dormitory in the middle of the night, and even began to smoke and drink.
After being discovered by the leader, Cao Yanhua was severely punished, and several times, the leader wanted to expel Cao Yanhua from the national team, if the coach had not been pleading behind her back, she would have been swept away.
But even so, Cao Yanhua still doesn't know how to converge, and his addiction to smoking is getting bigger and bigger, basically he doesn't leave his body with tobacco and alcohol! There was even a time when a fire was caused by smoking.
At that time, when someone saw it, they would sigh with emotion, "The world championship is ruined like this!" ”
You must know that Cao Yanhua has won 59 gold medals in major competitions at home and abroad, and is the first Chinese athlete to win the Grand Slam in four events of the World Table Tennis Championships. At that time, China's table tennis sports had not yet entered the Olympic Games, so Cao Yanhua was enough to call him "the pioneer of Chinese table tennis".
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In fact, she never thought about how long she could stay in the national team, because at the age of 22, Cao Yanhua retired, and Shi Zhihao retired with her. At that time, Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao were in love, and after their relationship was discovered by the coach, the two chose to retire rather than break up.
Such feelings are indeed very moving, but behind this touching, there is also hidden bitterness. The two were burdened with a lot of controversy, especially Shi Zhihao at that time, and often felt that he was dragging each other down? But despite this, the relationship between the two was still very good, and soon they entered the palace of marriage.
After getting married, Cao Yanhua went to Japan to study, graduated in 1987, and then went to Germany with her husband to develop, and spent 9 years in Germany. In Germany, they gave birth to a child.
After spending 9 years abroad, the couple still missed their hometown and eventually returned to Shanghai. This time, she still wanted to return to her "table tennis world", but it was impossible to be a team member on the field again, she thought about it for a long time, and finally founded Shanghai Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School.
She was asked why she started the school. "I want to be able to pass on the sports culture of our country, that's my original intention......," she said.
At this time, everyone realized that the female table tennis player who made everyone proud back then seemed to be back.
When Cao Yanhua first started running a school, he also faced a lot of difficulties, because of limited funds, he couldn't afford too professional equipment, so he could only keep everything simple, fortunately, the threshold was not high, otherwise Cao Yanhua really couldn't open this school.
In order to popularize the whole people, she lowered the enrollment threshold, she has no standard for admission, no matter how old she is, as long as she is interested in table tennis, she can come, and there are no students here, everyone enjoys the same treatment, and there is only one class in the whole school.
In order to be a staff member (other than a coach) at this school, you must be able to play table tennis, which is to foster an atmosphere. There is a cleaner in the school, who is from a remote rural area, and has never been exposed to table tennis since he was a child, but in order to enter the school, he started as a student and became a school staff member when he could play.
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Cao Yanhua relied on this method to make the entire region use the school as the radiation center, and really popularized the "national table tennis major", and even entered the national team.
Take the school cleaner mentioned above as an example, he learned to play table tennis himself, not to mention, but also trained his own children to become table tennis players, these two children have been training in Cao Yanhua's table tennis school since they were 2 years old, and then they both entered the industry, and one of them knew Deng Yaping and filmed advertisements with her.
In fact, the school has cultivated a lot of talents like these two children.
It is precisely because of this that many parents have come to hand over their children to Cao Yanhua, and there have been many touching stories behind this.
For example, a parent begged Cao Yanhua to take in his child, a 13-year-old mentally handicapped teenager. At that time, the child was only in the second grade, and his ability to accept new things was not enough.
At that time, many coaches were opposed to accepting this student, but Cao Yanhua pushed the crowd out, saying: "Everyone has a shining point, and we should not discriminate against him......"
In order to make the child learn better, he was also assigned an exclusive coach, what she didn't expect was that the child was not as difficult to teach as she imagined, and could even be the same as a normal child. This student knows that he is different from others, so he has been practicing hard. And he also has an advantage, that is, he is very good at talking, and will always praise Cao Yanhua "Principal Cao is very beautiful", Cao Yanhua smiled and patted the child's shoulder: "You are also very good, I am proud of you!" ”
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In addition to this kind of special students, there are also some older students, such as she once recruited a 60-year-old Chinese-American student, who just came to try it at first, but then she couldn't help but fall in love with playing table tennis, and also brought several students in her sixties and seventies to Cao Yanhua.
No matter how old they were, Cao Yanhua applauded and welcomed them and opened the door to greet them.
The longer this school is opened, the more Cao Yanhua feels that her choice is correct, and she founded the school, not to cultivate how good the world champions are, but to promote sports culture, so that the inheritance of China's sportsmanship, self-improvement, and tenacious life.
In fact, Cao Yanhua has indeed cultivated countless national-level talents.
So when it comes to her table tennis career, Cao Yanhua feels very content, she has experienced so much in her life, it is worth it, and she will continue to work on the front line in the future and continue to deliver talents to the country.
Her family is also very happy. Many years ago, Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao had a rift in their relationship, and the contradiction became bigger and bigger, so they had to end in divorce.
After the divorce, Cao Yanhua returned to China, and since then she has been in her career until she met her second husband, and the two entered the marriage hall.
The second husband is very gentlemanly, very handsome, and very good to Cao Yanhua, he doesn't mind Cao Yanhua's marriage history. He also heard Cao Yanhua's story, but after contact, he found that in fact, outsiders don't know Cao Yanhua, and the real Cao Yanhua is a little woman who is rigid on the outside and soft on the inside.
The current Cao Yanhua is immersed in happiness, and the appearance of the whole person has also changed a lot. Looking younger and gentler, it is hard to believe at first glance that she is past the age of six.
She is very proud to see the "Chinese table tennis career" rising now and the Chinese sports culture that has attracted the attention of the world, and she will be in tears when she sees the Chinese players standing on the podium, as if she saw herself back then.