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Edited by White Face
The 24-year-old head was cyberbullied.
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Can you believe it?
From the much-anticipated seeded player to the street rat that everyone shouts at, it only takes one day.
Every time there is a sports meeting, you can see a joke in the comment area.
The most stable sports in Chinese sports: diving, table tennis, football.
Take out any of them, and they are all firmly in the first place.
It's just the difference between the first positive number and the first last one.
Table tennis, in particular, has become so widespread that both men and women, young and old, can pick up a racket and swing it twice.
If you want to ask how strong are table tennis players?
Strong enough to change the rules.
The table tennis league system has been changed again and again, from the color of the racket to the size of the ball, from the height of the serve to the point system, which has led to many hopeful athletes missing the court because of violating the rules.
But even if they are so targeted, the national table tennis standing on the international stage is still dazzling, because they are strong enough.
This point, Liu Guoliang on the variety show has said it a long time ago.
"They changed the rules of the game for me, and the mood was very refreshing."
"Because no matter how they change the rules, we are still number one in the world"
Even the usual reprimands to the players are Versailles in the eyes of ordinary people.
"You're nothing but number one in the world right now"
Perhaps, it is too strong that everyone has high expectations for every game of national table tennis.
And these expectations have become unforgivable when they lose the game.
Recently, when some people were still immersed in the joy of winning the mixed doubles championship in Shatou, an entry was airborne on the hot search.
"Upset Out"
For a while, some people regretted and some people were angry.
It's a pity that he just won the mixed doubles championship and is the focus of attention, wouldn't it be beautiful if he won the men's singles championship in one go?
Surprisingly, he stopped in the top 32 of the men's singles.
Infuriatingly, even if he won a significant mixed doubles gold medal, it did not prevent him from being abused after losing to the Sweden.
Bad mentality.
There are many mistakes.
But they ignore the reason for this incident.
On the occasion of winning the mixed doubles championship with Sasha, a bad news happened.
Looking at the broken racket, he was silent.
At that time, there were people who comforted him that he was fine.
After all, he's not the only one who makes a temporary racket change.
At the beginning, behind Zhang Yining's victory in the women's singles gold medal in the 2008 Olympic Games, she experienced a similar horse arrest incident.
She was about to start a fight with a Singapore player, and the official confiscated her main racket on the grounds that she "did not meet the rules of the game".
Whether it's true or not, there's no time to argue.
Seeing that the game was less than ten minutes away, she had to accept a makeshift racket from her coach.
Even the coach felt that the racket was as hard as the sole of his shoe, and the game was probably suspended.
But Zhang Yining turned the tide with a shot that was not counted.
There are such examples in the past, and the accident of the big head has not been taken seriously.
During the game, he took many deep breaths to adjust his condition, trying his best to play every ball, but he still failed.
In the post-match interview, he could have told the reporter that the racket affected him, but he still attributed the reason to himself.
"The mood of the racket being stepped on has been affected to a certain extent, but it is by no means the reason for today's loss, or I have played a lot of problems and made a lot of mistakes, which led to today's failure, and the feel is no different, it is my own racket"
But such a pattern and literacy did not stop the trolls from scolding.
Said that he was not strong enough.
Everyone else can hold the soles of their shoes, so why can't you?
He was angrily accused of breaking history and playing the worst result in men's table tennis in Olympic singles since 1992.
Even the previous mixed doubles gold medal has become a credit to others.
In many encouragements, there is always these criticisms interspersed.
Aggressive.
Terror.
Disgusting.
At the same time, it also caused everyone to think deeply, why can Zhang Yining be big?
Is it a lack of strength?
Or is there some inside story?
02
First of all, the times are different, and the opponents are different.
National table tennis is the main force that is expected to win the championship, but players from Sweden and other countries are also prepared, and their strength should not be underestimated.
Put the two together, it is true that it is not appropriate to know the price of firewood and rice.
Secondly, Zhang Yining's racket incident was an accident, and very few people knew about it.
If I hadn't said it myself in a post-match interview, it would have been like I had a prosthetic leg on my hand when I changed my racket, and no one really knew that there would be such an accident during the game.
But the big-headed racket is known to be bad.
Under the unsparing publicity of the media, he weakened the opponent in momentum before the game even started.
Weaknesses are exposed, and it is inevitable that there will be problems with the mentality during the game.
There is no doubt about the strength of the big head.
Since 2018, he was born in 00 and has become famous in the table tennis world with his outstanding talent and hard training.
The unique fast-break play, like a bolt of lightning, breaks down the opponent's defense on the field again and again.
World Championships, Asian Championships, WTT Grand Slams......
In addition to the glittering trophies in the cabinet, there are also the ITTF's men's singles, men's doubles, and mixed doubles records that are firmly at the top of the list.
It can be described as a leader and one in the limelight.
But even if the racket doesn't have an accident, will the big head definitely win the men's singles championship?
Not necessarily.
No matter how good he is, he is not a god.
In the face of the strong, there will also be times when they are defeated. =
Besides, there is a specialization in the art industry.
Before the match, Datou listened to Liu Guoliang's advice and focused on mixed doubles.
"If I don't win the mixed doubles championship, my future competition and development will be very dangerous"
For this result, Malone also has a number in his heart.
Before, someone asked the big head which foreign player he was most afraid of encountering in this Olympics, looking at the big head in thought, Ma Long took over the conversation.
"How long you have been on this show, I'm afraid I can't finish it"
A joke says it all.
Although Datou has practiced hard day and night, and has stood on the Olympic stage through layers of trials, his strength is undeniable, but foreign players are also trying to catch up.
So, when public opinion broke out, someone built a "moat" for him.
"Stay here today, I see who dares to scold!"
Professional athletes can't help but feel sorry for him.
Tell everyone that changing shots on the spot is a big taboo on the field.
There are also examples of the results of the competition for changing the racket.
The big demon Zhang Yining frowned in the face of the replacement of the racket, and stabilized the situation with a "narrow victory".
Wang Liqin was obviously out of shape after changing to a spare shot and lost to Ma Lin.
This shows the importance of rackets to table tennis players.
What is chilling is that for various reasons, there are still people who do not have backache when they stand and talk.
Adopted a hateful attitude of "not winning the gold medal is the original sin", ignoring the efforts made by the big head to get on this stage.
And what the big head is experiencing now is not the first time it has happened.
03
Before Liu Xiang appeared, the championship on the straight track was almost overshadowed by black athletes.
Until 2004. Liu Xiang was born.
In the 110m hurdles final, he crossed the finish line with a time of 12.91 seconds.
In the post-match interview, he was more excited than anyone else.
"Who said that yellow people can't win the top eight in the Olympics, I must prove to everyone today that I am an Olympic champion"
In his career, he won 36 championships, 6 second places and 3 third places.
For an athlete, his results are dazzling enough.
Some people call him one of the greatest athletes in the history of Chinese track and field, and some say that he is a god on the track and field.
At that time, he was a hero who was worshiped and brought thousands of glory to him.
But because he fell twice, he became a spurned existence.
"Everybody wants to say a few words for me, but once something happens, no one wants to say a few words for me"
"Liu ran away, Liu retreated, liar, escaped from the battle, embarrassed ......."
These derogatory terms have been with him for more than ten years.
How high he was praised when he was at his peak, and how ruthless he was trampled on when he was down, there are still people who refuse to forgive him to this day.
This was the case for Liu Xiang at London 2012, and the same is true for the big head of Paris 2024.
A similar experience has caused everyone to think deeply, athletes must win gold medals to be good athletes? Do I have to win the championship to participate in the competition so as not to be scolded?
Losing the game, they are more sad than anyone else.
The big head buried his face in the towel, and when the towel was put down, his eyes were already red, obviously crying.
Zhang Yufei lost the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly, and her tears flowed down like a faucet that had opened the floodgates.
In the last Olympics, he was deducted three points because of etiquette and lost to his opponent, and this time Xiao Ruoteng, who missed the gold medal because of other people's mistakes, left the arena crying.
Standing in the arena, the athletes hope more than anyone else that they will win the gold medal and win glory for the country.
But there are wins and losses in the game.
The moment they knew the result, they didn't need to be scolded by others, they had already blamed themselves in their hearts thousands of times, thousands of times.
Not everyone is a genius, and even if they are talented, they have to work hard.
Every athlete standing on the field has experienced a lot of trials in private, and there are injuries on his body that others can't see.
Every gold medal is won by gambling on their youth and physical health, with sweat and training day after day.
Even if you practice until you collapse, you must continue to persevere.
Because they know that as long as they work a little harder and hold on for a second longer, they can get closer to the gold medal.
If they succeed, they will cry, and it is not easy to cry along the way.
When they fail, they will cry, crying about the hope and responsibility they carry.
Years of hard training are not only for their own love and dreams, but also for the hope of coaches, national audiences and the country.
He wants to win more than anyone else, but he is not a god on the top of the mountain after all, just a person who walks to the top of the mountain step by step.
In addition to training hard, I also have to find time to take the driver's license, release singles, pass the fourth or sixth grades, and engage in graduation projects.......
He has done what ordinary college students are working on, and he has done what ordinary college students have not done.
At the age of 20, standing out from the talented national table tennis on the international stage is good enough.
Old horses also have times when they lose their front hooves, let alone the big head of the post-00s?
Therefore, please give athletes more tolerance and encouragement, less abuse and slander, every athlete who works hard deserves respect.
After all, one failure cannot represent the whole of life.
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