In the world badminton project, the name of the "Four Heavenly Kings" must be very well known to fans, Lin Dan, Li Zongwei, Tawfik and Gade, these four badminton players have dominated the badminton world for a long time, alternately winning the world championship. In China, Lin Dan is an undisputed badminton brother, but the first male badminton singles gold medal of the Chinese Olympic Games was not won by Lin Dan, but Ji Xinpeng, and today I talked to the fans about the story of Ji Xinpeng.
Ji Xinpeng is a player in the Chinese badminton men's singles who broke the gold medal record at the Olympic Games, this introverted player's performance at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games surprised everyone, to know that when he participated in the Olympic Games, he was a player who was determined 5 minutes before the decision list, when the coaching staff did not like him, originally wanted to choose Chen Hong, and as a result, God favored Ji Xinpeng.
Ji Xinpeng, born in 1977 in an ordinary family in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, the coach of the sports school took a fancy to Ji Xinpeng, when he was only 7 years old. When Ji Xinpeng was 12 years old, he participated in the Badminton National Amateur Championship and won the fifth place in the country. At that time, the coach of Xiamen took a fancy to Ji Xinpeng, so he brought him to Xiamen, and The 12-year-old Ji Xinpeng left his hometown to come to Xiamen to start training badminton.
In 1996, Ji Xinpeng entered the second team of the national team, but because of his introverted personality, he has not been reused by the coach. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Ji Xinpeng was reluctantly selected for the national team, and the three badminton players at that time were Sun Jun, Xia Xuanze and Ji Xinpeng.
However, in the game, Ji Xinpeng played very tenaciously, and in the first game against Wu Wei of the Hong Kong team, Ji Xinpeng played very hard, fortunately, it was difficult to pass. In the next quarter-finals, Ji Xinpeng successfully defeated the champion Tawfik, and in the final, he directly "cried" the Indonesian player Ye Chengwan, and finally Ji Xinpeng won a men's singles badminton gold medal with very high gold content.
Ji Xinpeng said to the interview after the game, "It's very simple, I want to win. At that time, many people thought that Ji Xinpeng's luck was very good, but Ji Xinpeng believed that it was not accidental, it was completely dependent on personal strength. After the Sydney Olympics, Ji Xinpeng retired from the national team in 2002, stayed in the team to work as a coach, and was transferred to the national first team coaching team in 2005.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Ji Xinpeng had the honor of becoming the torchbearer of the Xiamen Olympic Games. However, in April 2008, an unpleasant incident occurred, when there were media reports that there was a beating incident in the badminton team training in Fujian, and Lin Dan, the number one badminton player in training, clashed with coach Ji Xinpeng, and Lin Dan punched Ji Xinpeng in front of reporters and other coaches. As soon as this matter was reported, it was quickly pushed to the cusp of public opinion.
Afterwards, Lin Dan wrote in a post, "I have always wanted to use my achievements to tell everyone that I am not only good at playing, but also a very healthy athlete, I am not what others think, winning the championship is great, and even playing coach." A few days later, Ji Xinpeng wrote on Weibo that Lin Dan had apologized to him.
The final result was a big surprise, Ji Xinpeng actually left the national team, which was considered to be an absolutely abnormal treatment result at the time, but it was already like that. In desperation, Ji Xinpeng returned to Xiamen to become the deputy director of the Sports Project Management Center of the Municipal Sports Bureau. Although Ji Xinpeng entered politics, he still did not give up his focus on badminton.
At the 2012 London Olympic Games, Ji Xinpeng appeared at the badminton competition to watch the game. Now that many years have passed, few people have mentioned the events of that year, but the injustice is in the hearts of the people, the eyes of the fans are shining, and naturally there is a standard for judging.