Hayabusa Mizutani officially announced his retirement due to eye disease! Insist on participating in the Tokyo Olympic Games, only to accompany Ito to play in the mixed doubles

On August 7, Japan's Asahi Shimbun announced that Japanese table tennis player Hayabusa Mizutani announced his retirement due to eye diseases. As the captain of the Japanese men's table tennis team, Mizutani Hayabusa won two medals for the Japanese team at the Tokyo Olympics, 1 gold and 1 bronze. It was also the best result achieved by the Japanese table tennis team at the Olympic Games.

Hayabusa Mizutani has been suffering from eye disease for years and was scheduled to retire after the 2016 Rio Olympics. But according to Ishiaki, a well-known Japanese table tennis commentator, Mizutani Hayabusa insisted on participating in the Tokyo Olympics mainly because he "wanted to take Ito Mishimasa, who had known him since childhood, to play a mixed doubles event." ”

According to media reports, Both Mizutani Hayabusa and Makoto Ito were born at the Toyodachi Table Tennis Training School in Shizuoka Prefecture, and their homes were not far away, and the two families were familiar with each other. The two have known each other for more than ten years and are also full of tacit understanding on the field.

In this Olympic Games, Mizutani Hayabusa won a gold and bronze result for the Japanese team in the mixed doubles and men's team events, and also made Mizutani Hayabusa, which was previously controversial due to his personal private life, regain the recognition of Japanese fans.

Mizutani Falcon has suffered from eye disease for many years, the eyes will be afraid of light, in the light can not see the movement of the ball clearly, must wear special glasses to improve. As early as 2018, Mizutani Hayabusa checked for eye problems, but at that time he was only wearing glasses during training, but eye problems continued to develop, and in 2019, Mizutani Falcon could only wear glasses during competitions to alleviate the impact of light on him.

Due to Mizutani Hayabusa's previous complaints about national table tennis, and after winning the gold medal in the mixed doubles event of the Olympic Games, on his personal social media, he exposed the statements such as life attacks by netizens from a certain country. Once the news of Mizutani Hayabusa's retirement was released, domestic fans did not wish well-known foreign players when they retired. It can also be seen that if a player wants to win the recognition of fans, he must not only have excellent results, but also his words and deeds off the field are equally important.