Sports, condensing the strength of mankind. Sports move the audience regardless of borders. However, the essence of competitive sports is ultimately cruel competition, and athletes themselves have national boundaries.
When an athlete abandons his or her original nationality, leaves the land where he was raised and joins another country, it inevitably causes a lot of controversy. Throughout the history of Chinese sports, for various reasons, many athletes have chosen to leave. Relatively speaking, the number of female athletes in this category seems to be more, and the author will first focus on them.
In the following, the author will synthesize the three elements of the project, the reason, and the chronology, and take stock of ten more representative former Chinese female athletes. Of course, space is limited, if you have a choice of lost pearls, please leave a message in the comment area to add.
10. Li Sasha
Li Shasha is a former player of the Chinese women's basketball second team. In 2001, Li Shasha was injured in the training of the national second team and had to temporarily leave the world of basketball for two years. In 2003, after recovering from her injuries, Li Shasha had lost her original training position. After considering this, Li Shasha traveled east to Japan to enter the Japan Women's Women's Sports University. During this period, Lisa participated in the Japanese university league and performed extremely well, winning several good contracts from the club.
In order to facilitate the development in Japan, Li Shasha resolutely joined the Japanese nationality and soon became the national player of the Japanese women's basketball team. Although people in the basketball community, including Zheng Haixia, have expressed their understanding of Li Shasha's approach, there are still many Chinese people who feel very incomprehensible about this Chinese girl who became Japanese overnight. Among them, Li Shasha's parents are also included.
IX. Wang Jiao
Wang Jiao was born in September 1980 in Fushun, Liaoning Province. In middle school, Wang Jiao, who was more than 180cm tall, conducted running and jumping advanced training at the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Physical Education and Sports.
At the age of 18, in order to take care of her seriously ill grandmother (her grandmother was Japanese), Wang Jiao moved to Japan with her family and began volleyball training in Japan, showing great talent. At first, Wang Jiao did not intend to give up her original nationality, but due to the restrictions with the Japanese volleyball club that each team was limited to one foreign aid, under consideration, Wang Jiao joined the Japanese nationality and changed her name to Shoga Koyama. In 2006, the 26-year-old Koyama joined the Japanese national team and served as the main attacker of the Japanese women's volleyball team for a period of time.
VIII. Ren Yanli
Ren Yanli, who enjoys the title of "Asian Heavy Artillery", was the captain of the Chinese softball team in the 1980s. Because of the competition, during this period, Ren Yanli recognized her idol & the "godmother" of the Japanese women's base, Uzuki Myoko, and the two became friends for many years.
On more than one occasion, Uzu Mumyoko wanted to take Ren Yanli to play in Japan, until after retiring from the national team, the latter became a Japanese national and subsequently became the main player of the Japanese team. Since then, Ren Yanli no longer exists, and Uzu Kiriwa was born.
In the 2004 Athens Olympic Women's Softball Event, in the second match against the Japanese team, the Chinese women's baseball lost 0-1, so it missed the medal. The dream of killing a Chinese women's base medal with a "strong stick" is Yuzu Mu Lihua, who once served as the captain of the Chinese women's base team. After the game, Uzu Kiriwa rushed to the Japanese fan area watching the game and cheered loudly, and constantly greeted the Japanese flag, which caused great dissatisfaction among Chinese sports fans.
7. Feng Tianwei
In 2002, at the age of 16, Feng Tianwei won the women's singles championship of the National Junior Championships, thus entering the national youth team & national second team. After entering the national second team, Feng Tianwei's performance has been good. Competitive sports are quite cruel, and when launching the first impact on the first team, Feng Tianwei suffered the first major Waterloo of her career. In the first and second teams of the promotion and relegation competition, Feng Tianwei, who played abnormally, was only one place away from entering the first team. Subsequently, Feng Tianwei was diagnosed with myocarditis and rested for a while.
In 2005, Feng Tianwei chose to go to Japan to play in the league and met Liu Guodong. At the invitation of the latter, Feng Tianwei changed her nationality and began to represent Singapore in the competition, achieving good results. At the 2012 London Olympic Games, Feng Tianwei served as the standard-bearer of the Singapore delegation at the opening ceremony.
VI. Wang Yuegu
Wang Yuegu is a table tennis player who debuted with Zhang Yining. At the age of 13, Wang Yuegu was selected for the Chinese national second team. At the age of 15, Wang Yuegu was selected for the national first team. In 1997, Wang Yuegu defeated former world champion and runner-up Wang Nan and Li Ju consecutively to win the runner-up of the China National Table Tennis Association Cup, which should have had a bright future.
However, due to the subsequent serious injury to his right ankle, Wang Yuegu had to undergo surgery and enter a long period of recuperation, and then lost his hard-won national team position, which once led to a retreat.
For Wang Yuegu's injury, the Chinese Table Tennis Association is actually very familiar with it, and it has specially opened a green light for Wang Yuegu to participate in competitions in other countries. As a result, Wang Yuegu became the only Chinese player sent to Japan to play in the Japanese league. During his four years in Japan, Wang Yuegu regained his passion for playing and officially joined the Singapore national team after the 2005 Shanghai World Table Tennis Championships.
5. Li Jiawei
In 1994, at the age of 13, Li Jiawei entered the talented Beijing team. In 1996, 15-year-old Li Jiawei went to Singapore to join the Singapore team. Since then, Singapore Table Tennis has been very attentive and patient in training this serious and hard-trained golfer.
Among the outcasts of the Chinese national team, Li Jiawei is the most powerful player, and her signature side up and down spinning serves, forehand raw glue, backhand anti-glue special play are unique memory points. Of course, compared with some former Chinese female table tennis players who fled, Li Jiawei's ball skills are good, and people are relatively low-key, and she has not made any sensitive statements with low emotional intelligence. In addition, Li Jiawei went out at a particularly young age, and basically did not occupy too many resources of the national team.
Therefore, domestic table tennis fans rarely spray Li Jiawei because of the move to change their nationality in the international competition.
Fourth, Zhu Chen
Zhu Chen, female grandmaster of chess, is China's second world chess champion after Xie Jun. Born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Zhu Chen is now a Qatari citizen, also known as Mohammed Chen.
Zhu Chen's husband, Muhammad, was also an outstanding chess player. In addition to his status as a chess player, Muhammad was also the prince and nobleman of Qatar. When they first met, the two met as rivals, but the confrontation on the field cultivated a good feeling for each other. The two truly bonded, and the two were in the middle of a chess exchange event. Time goes by, and feelings accumulate. Thus, a legendary exotic romantic love began. As a Nobleman of Qatar, the Muhammad family could not have their daughter-in-law hanging on to other nationalities. After getting married, Zhu Chen listened to her husband's advice and joined Qatari.
Third, the skin is red
In 1997, Pi Hongyan was selected for the Chinese national badminton team for the first time, and was called a rising star. However, when the career should have been in the ascendant period, the coach of the national team transferred Pi Hongyan back to the Sichuan team with a height of only 1.64 meters and a lack of future for the development of his playing style.
From the perspective of achievement and training, this approach is understandable in the Chinese badminton world. However, who can deny that this is not a cruel fate for Pi Hongyan?
After returning to the provincial team, Pi Hongyan can only participate in two relatively large competitions a year, and it is difficult to have a better monthly salary. Faced with such a dilemma, she once wanted to retire and change careers. It was at this time that a badminton club in Denmark approached her and invited her to play in the club league in Denmark. In 2001, Pi Hongyan left China to play in Denmark. After this, Pi Hongyan was invited by the French national badminton team. Pi Hongyan was naturalized happily and has since become a French national hand.
After the change of court, Pi Hongyan also continued to be active in local, European and international competitions. From 2003 to 2005, she won the French Open Badminton Championships three times in a row, and Pi Hongyan won the women's singles championship, and won the Women's Singles Championships of the French National Badminton Championships for six consecutive years from 2005 to 2010. During this period, Pi Hongyan's world ranking reached second place at one point. In the international competition, Pi Hongyan's results have not achieved a breakthrough, which can verify the correctness of the original selection vision to a certain extent. However, this decision was undoubtedly a success if one considered only in terms of the future of personal development.
2. He Zhili
Chiri Koyama, formerly known as He Zhili, was born in Shanghai, China.
He Zhili became famous in the 1982 China National Championships, then entered the national team, and was one of the women's team champions at the 38th World Table Tennis Championships in 1985. In terms of technical characteristics, He Zhili's right hand holding the racket on both sides of the arc circle is quite impressive.
In 1987, at the 39th World Championship held in New Delhi, India, He Zhili won the women's singles championship of the Table Tennis Championships. However, after new Delhi was crowned king, the 23-year-old He Zhili disappeared from the table tennis scene. In this regard, a popular saying on the Internet is that in this competition, He Zhili was asked by his superiors to lose to Guan Jianhua in the semi-finals to increase the odds of winning gold, but the former was banned because he did not do so.
In 1989, He Zhili quit table tennis. After that, He Zhili married Hideyuki Oyama, whom she met in the early years of Sino-Japanese table tennis exchange activities, and moved to Japan with her husband, joined the Japanese nationality, and changed her name to Tomoyuki Oyama. In 1992, Tomori Oyama made a comeback as a Japanese national player, and defeated Chen Jing, Qiao Hong, Deng Yaping and many other good players at the 1994 Asian Games, causing a sensation in the table tennis world.
Among the female athletes on the list, Tomori Koyama is definitely the one who makes the Chinese people feel the most uncomfortable. Even if a club-level game is successfully won by the old master, normal athletes will choose not to celebrate enthusiastically. However, in the final of the tournament that represented Japan and defeated China, Tomori Koyama was extremely emotional and constantly shouted Yosai in front of the camera.
1. Luan Jujie
If Tomori Koyama is the most disgusting former Chinese female athlete, Luan Jujie may be the most understanding former Chinese female athlete in China.
In 1983, Luan Jujie won the championship in the 6th International Women's Foil Competition held in Germany, becoming the first person in Asia to win the title of "the first sword in the world", and since then enjoyed the reputation of "the first sword of the East". At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Luan Jujie defeated his opponent by an absolute advantage to win the championship, bringing the first fencing Olympic gold medal for China and even the whole of Asia.
After experiencing the glory of his career, due to the impact of acute nephritis disease, Luan Jujie, who had just entered the age of establishment, had to choose to retire in 1988. After retiring from the army, she first went to Canada to study, and then returned to China to marry her husband Gu Dajin. In 1991, the couple's first daughter was born.
Unfortunately, Luan Jujie's daughter suffered from congenital heart disease and was admitted to the intensive care unit just after birth. After the examination, the doctor told Luan Jujie that the daughter needed to operate as soon as possible in the future and be plugged into a pacemaker. The doctor's words were like thunderbolts on a sunny day, which made Luan Jujie overwhelmed. Due to the limited medical conditions in China at that time, coupled with the Canadian government's particularly perfect funding policy for the upbringing of seriously ill children, Luan Jujie decided to become a Canadian citizen after weighing it again and again. After going to Canada, Luan Jujie successively served as the coach of the City of Emington Fencing Club, the director of the technical department of the Alberta Fencing Association, the head coach of the Canadian national team women's foil, and her daughter also received better medical treatment, and eventually survived and grew up with a pacemaker.
Although she became a Canadian citizen, she did not forget the Chinese land that had been sweating for it. In order to participate in the 2008 Olympic Games held in Beijing, Luan Jujie made a comeback at the age of 50, successfully played the qualification tournament, and returned to his homeland as a Canadian athlete. After the first game of the Olympic Games, the former "First Sword of the East" held up the red banner of "Good Motherland" with tears in his eyes, which really touched countless sports fans.
Oh, and there is something worth mentioning, Luan Jujie's father is Luan Youshan. Yes, it was the one who had hidden his outstanding exploits for 70 years, who was discovered by his children near the end of his life, leaving a sentence of "What is so great about meritorious service?" "After that, the hero of the Republic who drove the crane to the west.
Every time I recall the story of Luan Jujie, the author really can't help but sigh, out of the unproachable need to run for a future for themselves, fate and the helplessness of the times, from the perspective of nationality, for some reason, a group of people like Luan Jujie gave up the identity of Chinese. However, from the perspective of cultural identity, some of these people are still 100% pure descendants of Yan Huang.