On October 8, Zhao Yunlei, the badminton mixed doubles and women's doubles champion at the London Olympic Games, posted a "group photo" with her husband Hong Wei on social media. For the fans' praise, Zhao Yunlei naughtily replied, "Although I only show half of my face, I feel that the protagonist is still me!" It can be seen that Zhao Yunlei and Hong Wei, who have been licensed for more than two years, enjoy the current two-person world very much.
As a representative figure of Chinese women's badminton, Zhao Yunlei won two gold medals in women's singles and mixed doubles at the 2012 London Olympic Games, becoming the first player in the national featherweight to win two gold medals in an Olympic Games, she achieved a full slam in both women's doubles and mixed doubles, but in the Rio Olympics mixed doubles failed to defend her title, becoming a regret in her career. After the Rio Olympics, Zhao Yunlei quit the national team and then went to Guoyu as an assistant coach in the women's doubles group. Hong Wei, who is 3 years younger than her, is also a doubles player, who won the Soup Cup championship with Guoyu and won the title of World Champion, and after retiring, Hong Wei returned to his hometown as a badminton coach. The two were licensed to marry on June 1, 2018, becoming another world champion couple in Guoyu. After marriage, the two lived very happily, on September 5, when Zhao Yunlei ushered in her 34th birthday, Hong Wei also intimately celebrated his wife's birthday and prepared a birthday cake full of love, which also wrote "I love you" and "Wife, happy birthday!" and the words "the most beautiful goddess".
However, compared with the achievements on the field, Zhao Yunlei is more memorable in the Rio Olympic Games with her ex-boyfriend and mixed doubles partner Zhang Nan's "most beautiful hug". Zhao Yunlei's relationship with "post-90s" Zhang Nan is one of the most famous "sister-brother love" in Chinese sports, and their love affair was announced in the 2010 Japan Super Mixed Doubles Competition, when Zhang Nan kissed Zhao Yunlei after the game. In 2011 and 2014, they won the World Championship twice, won the London Olympic Games in 2012, and achieved a gold medal Grand Slam at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games.
However, at the 2016 Rio Olympics, when Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei defeated her opponent to win the mixed doubles bronze medal, there was a surprising scene on the field - Zhao Yunlei raised her hand to greet the audience, but Zhang Nan did not care about the others, just silently stared at Zhao Yunlei, and slowly walked towards her, and carefully said to her, "Hug it!" Subsequently, Zhang Nan opened his arms and hugged Zhao Yunlei tightly. Two seconds later, Zhao Yunlei put down her arm, originally thought that the hug was over, who knew that Zhang Nan still hugged tightly and refused to let go, Zhao Yunlei patted Zhang Nan's back like a big sister coaxing a little brother, just like this, in front of the world, Zhang Nan hugged Zhao Yunlei for eight seconds. Subsequently, Zhao Yunlei put away her smile, glanced up at her former lover, and turned her head to leave after a slight touch of her eyes. Two days later, Zhang Nan won the men's doubles gold medal, but Zhang Nan hardly smiled in public. The morning after Zhang Nan won the gold medal, Zhao Yunlei posted on Weibo, announcing her retirement and confirming that she and Zhang Nan were no longer lovers. A gold medal couple, a golden partner, two winners in life, won the world, but only lost him and her...
After the Olympic Games, Zhao Yunlei publicly told the media that because of her emotional problems during the preparation period, it seriously affected the training, which led to the defeat of Rio. The combination of Zhao Yunlei and the women's doubles partner Tian Qing was also broken up, and there were media reports that the entangled feelings between the three led to the failure of the two pairs of champions to achieve good results at the Rio Olympic Games.
On June 1, 2018, Hong Wei posted a marriage certificate with Zhao Yunlei on his personal social platform in a high profile, officially announcing that the two were married, and on November 30 of the same year, Zhang Nan also announced the marriage news, and the marriage object was Zhao Yunlei's former female double partner Tian Qing, which seemed to confirm the previous media reports. It is worth mentioning that after Zhang Nan and Tian Qing both announced their certificates on Weibo, there were a lot of insults and attacks in the comment area such as "Xiao San finally turned right" and "scumbag", when someone left a message on Zhao Yunlei's social media, "Once again sighed at Sister Xiong's mind!" When she suffered such a great grievance," Zhao Yunlei replied generously, "Thank you for your understanding." ”
Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan once had a vigorous relationship, and finally broke up by mistake, but now both sides have found happiness and life is back on track.