It has only been three days since Liu Guoliang stepped down, and worrying things have happened, and Zhang Jike has become the most uneasy

Three days after Liu Guoliang stepped down, worrying things still happened.

It's not a malicious rumor, and it's not where to go after resigning.

is the biggest concern of netizens - Zhang Jike.

As Liu Guoliang's most proud student, Zhang Jike has never returned to the team.

Looking back on all these years, Zhang Jike went from a young national player to a stigma, which is really embarrassing.

This pair of Heavenly Chosen Teachers and Students still paid the wrong one after all......

Three days have passed, and the most unsettling thing has come

No one expected that Liu Guoliang's resignation would come so suddenly, and no one was ready to face the chain reaction brought by this "farewell".

Just three days after stepping down, something that made the fans' hearts pantothenic came true.

Zhang Jike will never come back.

He is the champion brought out by Liu Guoliang, the ruthless man of the first five-year Grand Slam, and a typical example of breaking the table on the stage and cold noodles off the stage.

Now that Liu Guoliang is gone, the master and apprentice who used to "understand each other's meaning with one look" have suddenly dispersed, and Zhang Jike has no possibility of "returning to the team".

Many people were originally waiting for a turning point, and after Liu Guoliang stepped down, could Zhang Jike return to a familiar place in a new capacity, even if it was to be an assistant coach or technical consultant.

But he didn't show up, not even a little moving. His status on social platforms is still selling rackets, live broadcasts, and promoting courses. It looks very relaxed and free, but the more it is, the more sour it becomes.

The once flamboyant "Tibetan Mastiff", the champion who won glory for the country, is now really getting farther and farther away from this runway.

For 20 years, they were the ones who understood each other best

Speaking of Zhang Jike and Liu Guoliang, it is not a simple master and apprentice that can be summed up.

They are like two people who have been fighting on the same front for many years, one is a commander and the other is a fierce general, and they both know how stubborn and ruthless the other party is.

In 2003, Zhang Jike, who was still a child, appeared for the first time at the national team selection site, and no one was optimistic about him, he was young, spoke straight, and his eyes were full of "drag".

When Liu Guoliang saw him for the first time, he chuckled in his heart. The kid said, "I'm going to win the World Championship." ”

This ruthless growth against the wind, like a wild wolf, hungry, rushing towards the target, not hitting the south wall and not looking back, is also very much like himself when he was young.

As the saying goes, love deeply, and manage it ruthlessly.

As a result, Zhang Jike has become the most "difficult" thorn in national table tennis, and he has also become Liu Guoliang's most reassuring apprentice.

But the more angular a person is, the easier it is to hit the south wall. Zhang Jike had bumps and bumps in those years, and the most serious one was because he was kicked out of the national team directly because of violating team rules. At that time, many people said that the child was useless, but Liu Guoliang did not give up.

He quietly contacted Coach Yin Xiao of the local team and asked him to bring this kid with him, to put it bluntly, to leave a way out for him. Zhang Jike himself was also angry, plunged into training, and stayed up quietly for half a year.

That year, the Beijing Olympics had not yet come, and the dream was not yet close, but Zhang Jike had already started from the bottom of the valley, with the sentence "I believe I can win the championship", climbing all the way.

In the years since, Zhang Jike's rise has been like a hanging: the World Championships, the World Cup, and the Olympic Games, the three major Grand Slams have been won faster than anyone else.

Off the field, he is still Zhang Jike, laughing and joking, but on the field, his face changes in a second, and he is murderous.

The tacit understanding between the two does not need to be said.

Every time the game is adjusted in tactics, as long as Liu Guoliang frowns, Zhang Jike knows how to change it. That kind of heart has a soul, which is ground out and beaten.

They ran in with each other and relied on each other, and the national table tennis not only stabilized the position under them, but also played a beautiful reversal battle several times.

But now, Liu Guoliang is gone, and Zhang Jike has not returned, just like the gears that originally fit closely have been interrupted.

And what we see is a combination that was originally thought to be invincible, but in the end it dispersed so silently, one was sent down, and the other faded out.

He walked out of the ring, but we haven't gotten out of the blood he gave us yet

If you know Zhang Jike's past, you won't feel that his silence doesn't matter.

He is an extremely strong person in his bones, even if he falls to the bottom, he has to raise his head and walk out.

Liu Guoliang is the person he trusts the most, from rookie to Grand Slam, from unruly to national idol, the two together have supported the most burning page of Chinese table tennis.

If you ask him to turn around now and say "I am willing to come back" to his teacher who has already stepped down, this is not only emotionally difficult to speak, but also self-esteem does not allow it.

It's not that he doesn't want to come back, he doesn't know in what capacity.

Players? He was well past the peak of his form; Instructor? The inside of national table tennis is not a rhythm that he is familiar with; Consultant? That's a false position, and he is too sober to accept the consolation prize of "nominal decoration".

And Liu Guoliang is the only person who can say "I believe in him" for him. Now that hole card is gone. Where can he go?

Many people think that Zhang Jike has "changed".

In the live broadcast room, he no longer roared loudly, nor did he slam the table for a racket. He changed into a suit, introduced the product in front of the camera, and his smile was more "standard" than before.

The biggest difference between him and the past is not the change in appearance, but the momentum that once broke through everything, as if it was slowly withdrawing.

But people still can't forget the hot-blooded boy at the beginning.

In 2009, he won his first world title.

In 2010, he slashed Wang Liqin, Wang Hao, and Ma Long in the internal competition that went straight to Moscow.

Who remembers that he has only just returned to the national team.

Who would dare to think that this "problem boy" who was once withdrawn from the team is rushing towards the "Grand Slam" step by step.

Zhang Jike became famous very quickly, as fast as an explosion, in 2011 World Table Tennis Championships, 2012 London Olympics, in only 445 days, he won the men's singles championship of the world's three major competitions, and achieved the fastest Grand Slam in the history of Chinese table tennis.

445 days is a height that others can't catch up with in half their lives.

At this time, all the voices that were not optimistic about him disappeared, and there was only one sentence left:

"This kid really wasn't bragging."

After all, this Tibetan mastiff-like teenager, at the beginning, was not to take a long-term road, but to blow up the greatest light in the shortest possible time.

And the teenager who stood in the training hall and shouted "I'm going to win the World Championship" did exactly that.

After retiring, his struggle in the quagmire of public opinion, I won't go into details, let the boy stay in the blood forever.

There is no one like Zhang Jike, who threw his entire youth on the table and gave his blood and pride to the national team.

Now, Liu Guoliang is gone, Zhang Jike is far away, and there is only a group of people who are still looking back. It's not just an athlete that we miss, it's the mood of an era.

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