Table tennis and badminton have always been the masters of Chinese sports, and in the year-end finals that ended on the same day on December 13, Guo Yu only won the women's doubles gold due to poor performance, while the national table tennis still strongly won the championship of the three events it participated in.
Compared with a pair of badminton couples produced by the national table tennis, the national table tennis team rarely has internal solutions, and the Chinese table tennis team, which is known for its strictness, was expelled from the national team more than a decade ago for the sake of achievements and even some members because of love.
In January 2004, the Chinese table tennis men's and women's teams were divided into two roads and went to Xiamen and Zhengding for closed training. Just as the team members packed up and prepared to leave, Cai Zhenhua, the head coach of the table tennis team at the time, announced a decision that shocked all the team members: "For the sake of serious discipline, athletes Bai Yang, Hou Yingchao, Li Nan, and Fan Ying decided to temporarily return the four of them to the provincial teams because of the love affair, and then consider whether to recall the national team as appropriate according to their performance in the provincial team." "Since there were no signs before, the players did not know, so when Cai Zhenhua finished the punishment decision, all the team members present were stupid.
At that time, among the 4 people who were expelled, Fan Ying's lover was Wang Hao, Bai Yang's lover was Ma Lin, and Hou Yingchao and Li Nan were a pair of lovers. After the meeting, many team members were upset about Hou Yingchao and Li Nanming, believing that the team's letting go of Wang Hao and Ma Lin was an unfair punishment. A team member said: "Why was Hou Yingchao expelled together with Li Nan, while the other two pairs only expelled Bai Yang and Fan Ying, but not Ma Lin and Wang Hao?" At that time, the Athens Olympic Games were coming, and Marlene, who was the pillar of the men's team, and Wang Hao, who had high hopes, were exempted from punishment.
On March 26, 2004, news came from the Chinese table tennis team that fan Ying, Bai Yang, Li Nan and Hou Yingchao, four members of the Chinese table tennis team who were punished by the "reflection of the return team" for falling in love, had all returned to the team to report. At this point, the incident of the ping-pong team "beating mandarin ducks with sticks" has come to an end for the time being.
Of the three couples being processed, Marlene and Poplar were the longest, having been in love for three years at the time. Before the 2001 Nine Games, Marlene and Poplar were already together. As long as conditions permit, as long as Marlene has a game, Poplar will watch from the sidelines and cheer for Marlene. In the final of the Nine Games, when Ma Lin and Qin Zhijian played at a critical moment, the poplar on the sidelines kept his hands folded in front of his chest to pray for Marlene, and the TV station that broadcast it at the time intentionally or unintentionally gave Poplar a lot of close-ups. Since then, the relationship between the two has become more and more public. But "the good times are not long", the exchanges between the two frequently affect the competition, especially during some competitions, as long as there is a Poplar to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships and the Finals, Marlene's results are not ideal, and the World Cup marlene without Poplar's participation won the championship, for which the table tennis team felt the seriousness of the matter, and had to make a decision to remove Bai Yang Kai from the national team before the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Fan Ying Wang Hao was different from Bai Yang Ma Lin, who was still relatively young at the time and did not have much exposure in the media. In 2003, Fan Ying wanted to play a series of European tour matches, so she found Wang Hao to work overtime to spare herself, and the two had a lot more opportunities to get along alone. While training and researching technology together, the two had a lot to say. After they were together, the two fell in love and their grades dropped, and they were relegated to the national second team. At this time, the national team also seems to feel the seriousness of the problem, and has seriously criticized them, even if Fan Ying's performance has improved in training, she has not escaped the fate of being expelled from the national team.
Li Nan and Hou Chaoying should be the most unfortunate of the three pairs, and it seems that they do not seem to be eye-catching in the table tennis team of the world champion, but as a rare chipper in the national team, Hou Chaoying's role cannot be underestimated. In the women's team, Li Nan worked hard, and the world ranking climbed to ninth place. In the table tennis team to rectify the discipline, the two were still expelled from the national team as a typical example.
Although it took less than 3 months from being expelled to returning to the national team, everything was different when they returned to the national team, the three couples did not come together in the end, they had more or less a certain relationship with this, and now they have all married each other. Li Nan married Shi Zhihao, a former 23-year-old women's table tennis coach in December 2010, and Fan Ying married Shanghai table tennis player Gao Xin in November 2014, who currently runs a trading company in Shanghai. Wang Hao married dancer Yan Boya in June 2013. After the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Ma Lin married the actor Zhang Ningyi, in September 2009, the two were divorced; on December 8, 2013, Ma Lin remarried to marry her girlfriend Zhang Yaqing, who was 2 years younger.
Perhaps the national table tennis of this "stick to play Mandarin duck" caused too much controversy, after Liu Guoliang took over the table tennis team, the national table tennis pair of love has been let go a lot, the team has also produced couples, but unfortunately they did not come to the end.
Wang Hao and Peng Luyang, in September 2009, the news of Wang Hao and Peng Luyang's love affair was disclosed by the media. According to the captain of Peng Luyang's table tennis super league in Shandong, the two began to fall in love in 2008. For wang hao's relationship with Peng Luyang, Bayi coach Wang Tao said that as long as it does not affect the results, Wang Hao and anyone who is in love will not object. Huang Biao, the leader of the national table tennis team, also said that it is normal to fall in love at this age. Huang Biao also corrected the national table tennis ban on love within the team. He said: "We have never forbidden the players to fall in love with each other, but there are age requirements. First of all, after the team members reach a certain age, the team allows them to fall in love, and secondly, for the phenomenon of love between the team members, we are in line with the principle of not advocating, not advocating, but at the same time not opposing. ”
However, by the time Wang Hao announced his marriage in 2013, the bride was not Peng Luyang, but Yan Boya, a dancer who had been in love with him for more than a year. As for when Wang Hao and Peng Luyang broke up and why they broke up, the outside world does not know.
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