Table tennis, a sport that has blossomed everywhere in China, is the national sport "exclusive" to Chinese, and is the cornerstone of China's sports development.
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And there is such a person, he has been rejected by the coach many times, and he was rejected by the national team due to physical reasons.
But he relied on his unswerving willpower, as well as his belief in table tennis, to become a champion and achieve higher achievements than Liu Guoliang.
So what kind of results did Wang Tao, who left traces in the history of Chinese table tennis, achieve?
During the period of national table tennis, the person who sounded the horn
At the end of 1980, with the rise of the Sweden team, mainland table tennis fell into a low ebb, and in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Chinese men's table tennis also suffered a crushing defeat. The straight-shot fast-attacking style that national table tennis has always been proud of has been miserably restrained, and the Sweden team seems to be "prepared".
These failures were a heavy blow to the Chinese team, but the Chinese team did not give up, but turned these into motivation.
Fortunately, the style of the Sweden team is aimed at the traditional straight shooting style of the Chinese team, which gives opportunities to Wang Tao, a good horizontal shooting player who has just entered the national team.
After this event, the national team immediately invited Cai Zhenhua, who was coaching in another country, back and temporarily appointed as the head coach of the national team. Cai Zhenhua did not dare to slack off and began to analyze the current situation.
Cai Zhenhua watched the game records repeatedly, and also found the problem from it, so he began to "see the moves" to cultivate talents who both attack and defend, and Wang Tao was one of the good seedlings discovered by Cai Zhenhua.
After many times of guidance from coaches such as Cai Zhenhua and coach Li Xiaodong, Wang Tao's level has been improving, but he still can't reach the professional level. However, Wang Tao has a special advantage, that is, left-handedness.
Taking advantage of this feature, Wang Tao was arranged to doubles and broke through from it. Because playing with the left hand can better defend the dead corner, play tricky balls to expose the opponent's flaws, so that the players can cooperate with the kill.
Cai Zhenhua's guidance also worked wonders, and in the same Hungary Championship that year, Wang Tao and Lu Lin, two young players who had just shown their faces in world-class competitions, won the doubles championship through their excellent cooperation.
In the next Olympic Games after the dark history of national table tennis in 88, Wang Tao's long-term training results were gradually revealed, and he and Lu Lin continued to pass the test under the seamless cooperation, successively defeating France and Korea to enter the final, and finally defeated Germany, winning a long-empty gold medal for China.
The history of the fame of "Ping Pong King" and "King of Soldiers".
Wang Tao was born in the capital of the motherland in 1967, under the training of his father Wang Shijun, he began to contact table tennis at the age of 3.
Wang Tao's father saw that he had such a talent, and wanted him to develop in this area, but the ideal was different from the reality, because Wang Tao's height and figure and other reasons did not meet the standard.
Most coaches vetoed Wang Tao without even looking at it, which stumped Wang Tao's father and son, even if they ran all over Beijing, no one took a fancy to this "genius" player.
This result made Wang Tao very sad, but his father learned the news that there were such sports troops in the army, and after telling Wang Tao the news, Wang Tao was also very excited.
So Wang Tao chose to be a soldier at the age of 13 and joined the infrastructure engineering corps at that time, and there was a Bayi Sports Work Brigade in the army, which was able to continue to train himself.
However, a year after Wang Tao's training, something unexpected happened to them, and the team would be withdrawn at the end of 1983, which was a blow to the head.
The army gave Wang Tao two choices, either to give up the road of table tennis, or to go to Xinjiang and continue to complete the table tennis dream in the army there.
Wang Tao was only a teenager at that time, and he needed to go to such a far place to study alone, of course, his parents disagreed, but the enthusiastic Wang Tao didn't want to waste his love for table tennis for more than ten years, so he had a dispute with his parents and insisted on going to Xinjiang.
Fortunately, Wang Tao participated in many competitions during the four years, and the national team was at a low point at this time and needed new blood to join, so in a certain competition, Wang Tao was discovered and invited to join the national team.
This opportunity brought a huge turn in Wang Tao's life, not only winning many medals for the country, but also making himself a legend in the table tennis world.
Until 2002, Wang Tao chose to officially retire, but he did not give up the table tennis career he loved and chose to join the Bayi table tennis team as a coach.
Wang Tao has used his experience on the field to cultivate many outstanding contemporary table tennis players, such as Fan Zhendong and Wang Hao, who won world championships.
Wang Tao, who had just retired from the army, was extremely recognized by the army because of his brilliant achievements for the country in the field of sports, so he was given the rank of major general, and he was also the only military athlete general at that time.
Admiral
All of them who came out of Wang Tao's hands are fierce generals, like the former world champion Wang Hao, who is now the head coach of the national table tennis men's team.
After Wang Tao retired and joined the Bayi team, Wang Hao was one of the first batch of students he led, and he joined the national second team after Wang Tao left the school.
In the past few years of his service, Wang Hao has competed for 18 world championships for the country, and he is an indispensable national table tennis general.
There is also Fan Zhendong, an active member of the national table tennis team, who has won 17 world championships, and is affectionately called "little fat" by netizens because of his fat figure.
As the old saying goes, famous teachers produce high apprentices, under the teaching of Wang Tao, there are more and more world-class table tennis players that we are familiar with, even if Wang Tao has retired, but also to pass on all his experience to the next session, and he is indispensable to the progress of Chinese table tennis.
The current situation of the "veterans" of the sports world
After Wang Tao retired, he not only applied for the position of coach, but also became an actor with great interest.
may be nostalgic for the life in the army before, Wang Tao starred in a movie "Police Appointment" directed by Xu Geng, in which he played a policeman "Xiao Zhou", which made him feel very fresh.
He thinks that he has been in the table tennis world, and sometimes he still feels tired, and it is quite interesting to do something else once in a while, even if it is just running around and sweeping the floor in the show.
Although it is good to occasionally "change tastes", he also said that table tennis is his first place, and this is the "protagonist" he should be.
Then Wang Tao and his wife Guan Hua gave birth to a son and a daughter, which belongs to the most successful state, and now Wang Tao is 57 years old and has entered middle age, which may be due to physical reasons, weight and figure are becoming thinner to the naked eye, but his spirit and state are indeed very good.
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Wang Tao can be said to be famous, his experience and achievements have also become a legend of national table tennis, and his spirit is being passed on to future generations little by little, so that every Chinese athlete will unremittingly shine for the country.
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