What happened to Misei Ito, the former nemesis of national table tennis?
The Japan Table Tennis Association announced the final list of participants in the Paris Olympics, and the 6 main players plus two substitutes were all selected, while the familiar Misei Ito was completely absent from the Paris Olympics.
In fact, as early as a few months ago, the Japan Table Tennis Association has announced 6 players to participate in the Olympic Games, namely Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Hayasuke Togami, and Shinozuka Daito of the men's team, and Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano and Miwa Zhangmoto of the women's team.
Among them, Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Hayasuke Togami, Hina Hayada and Miu Hirano served as men's and women's singles, and Daito Shinozuka and Miwa Zhangmoto served as the team. Now two P-card players have been selected, Teruma Matsushima of the men's team and Miyu Kihara of the women's team.
Attentive netizens will find out, why is there no Misei Ito in this list? If you want to say that there are no singles and groups, why don't you even have a P card?
Why Chinese fans care so much about Misei Ito, it is because the impression brought by "Ms. Mima" to the national table tennis is too profound. At the beginning of the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Misei Ito became the nemesis of national table tennis, this situation is extremely rare, the last Japanese player who can bring a threat to national table tennis is still Koyama Zhili, but that is also a naturalized player in the past, and only in the Hiroshima Asian Games that the competition became famous, and then it will not work.
But Ito Micheng is different, she has brought unprecedented pressure to the national table tennis women's team throughout the Tokyo Olympic cycle, and it is continuous, it is not an exaggeration to say that the existence of Ito Micheng has made the list of national table tennis Tokyo Olympics change several times, and Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, who finally served as singles, have a good record against Ito Micheng.
Even though the national table tennis coaching staff at that time strictly guarded Ito Micheng, they still let her take advantage of the loophole, Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin failed to block the sneak attack of Ito Misei and Mizutani Hayabusa, and lost the mixed doubles gold medal. Although in the later women's singles and women's team competitions, Ito Micheng was defeated by Sun Yingsha, but in the next Paris Olympic cycle, Ito Micheng was still listed as the number one opponent by the national table tennis.
But at the beginning of the Paris Olympics cycle, due to the change of coaches, the introduction of newcomers in Japanese table tennis, and the most important thing is to focus on the study of national table tennis, Ito Micheng's state has been declining, at this time Hina Hayada has become the absolute first sister of Japanese table tennis, Kihara Miyu and Nagasaki Miyu have a certain strength, coupled with the recovery of Miyu Hirano's state, and the emergence of the young genius Miwa Zhangmoto, Ito Misei has gradually become the "chicken ribs" in Japanese women's table tennis, tasteless food, and it is a pity to abandon it.
In addition, Ito Misei did not play particularly bright results in the competition, so after the Japanese Table Tennis Association announced the list twice, it would rather use new stars such as Miwa Zhang and Miyu Kihara than use Misei Ito.
Objectively speaking, judging from the competitive pressure of Japanese table tennis and the competitive pressure of the international table tennis world, Ito Misei does not have an advantage, if he continues to fight like this, although he is only 24 years old, but Ito Misei will not have much chance even in the next Olympic cycle.
However, Ito's experience in the competition, as well as the experience of national table tennis, is incomparable to any player in Japanese table tennis now, if she is allowed to play the third person of a group, it is still more appropriate.
Personally, I think Ito is more suitable for the Olympics than Miu Hirano.
For national table tennis, without Misei Ito, it is definitely a good thing, because it is a time bomb, and if you can't keep it all at once, it will explode. From this point of view, Li Falcon and Ma Lin can be regarded as breathing a sigh of relief.
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