The Paper's special contributor Cha Fu
Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan burst into tears after the game
"I don't think I'm at my best, I'm just better." On the 2nd, Musashino Forest Sports Plaza, the Tokyo Olympic Badminton Tournament entered the final day of the competition day, "Lucky Sister" Chen Qingchen looked forward to the perfect ending for the Chinese women's doubles.
After reaching the women's doubles final, No. 2 seeds Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan faced a veteran Indonesian duo of Polly/Lahayu, who had previously eliminated another Chinese women's doubles team, Du Yue/Li Yinhui.
The "Fan Chen Combination" previously had a record of 6 wins and 3 losses against the opponent, slightly gaining the upper hand. But in the last two World Championships, both were blocked from the final four by Polly/Lahayu in the quarter-finals...
At the Tokyo Olympics, Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan still did not have much to do in front of their opponents, losing the final 0-2 (19-21, 15-21) and regretting to win the silver.
Chen Qingchen brought his own traffic at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
"Master of the C Language for Mankind"
"I have a silver medal now, rush gold." "Yes! Rush gold. This is the dialogue transmitted to the world by the Chinese duo Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan through the broadcast camera on the sidelines after the tokyo Olympic games badminton women's doubles semifinals.
The pair, also born in 1997, went out of the circle at the Tokyo Olympics because they came out with their own sound effects subtitle group.
Chen Qingchen got a new name - Sister Lucky. In addition to the "human C language master", "powerful", "cow ah you" that have been played by everyone, Chen Qingchen came up with new quotes in the semi-finals: "She can't kill me", "She will also make mistakes", "Better than me in front of the net", "She can't get past me".
At this time, Jia Yifan was more like a cold-faced killer, and there were not many cruel words, giving a thumbs up to his partner: "First-class! ”
After the "Fan Chen" group advanced to the final, even the Korean coach Kang Jin-kyung was infected by the passion of his disciples, shouting "Niu X" with his limited Chinese vocabulary, applauding the two Chinese girls. And the opponent they defeated was the women's doubles Kim Joo Young/Kong Hee-young from Jiang Jingzhen's motherland of South Korea.
"In fact, I don't know what I'm shouting on the field, and I encourage each other loudly to support it with faith." We tried our best, we tried our best to play, because as long as we lost the knockout game, there was no next game, and we wanted to go further, and we wanted to go further. ”
Chen Qingchen was also unexpected about himself going out of the circle in this way.
"Van Chen" combination.
There are Korean coaches in the team
In fact, in the 5 years after the Rio Olympics, the mission and burden of the Chinese women's doubles are only known to them.
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, when Ge Fei/Gu Jun won the first Olympic gold for Chinese badminton, Jia Yifan and Chen Qingchen had not yet been born. With the women's doubles as a breakthrough, Guoyu began the establishment of the dynasty.
Since then, generations of female doubles have begun a 16-year reign. Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen, Du Jing/Yu Yang, Tian Qing/Zhao Yunlei defended the glory of The Chinese women's doubles in the Olympic hall in Athens, Beijing and London.
However, at the Rio Olympics, the Chinese women's doubles suffered Waterloo and did not even reach the final - watching the Japanese women's doubles Matsu TomoMisaki / Reiwa Takahashi climb to the top is the darkest moment in the history of Kuniwa.
It is also in this context that after Zhang Jun became the new head of Guoyu, the biggest drastic move was to hire The First Foreign Coach in the History of Chinese Badminton, South Korean Jiang Jingzhen.
Ordinary people are not familiar with the name Jiang Jingzhen. But when it comes to "Li Longda's coach", everyone is full of praise.
Kang Kyung-jin was a famous South Korean badminton doubles player who won the 1997 All England Open Men's Doubles Title. After retiring from the army, Kang Kyung-jin entered the Korean team to coach, and since 2004, he has been the men's doubles coach of the Korean team, training Lee Yong-dae, Yoo Yeon-sung, Ko Sung-hyun, Shin Baek-cheol and other doubles players.
In 2016, Kang Kyung-jin became the head coach of the South Korean national team and led the team to win the Sudirman Cup in 2017.
In September 2019, Jiang Jingzhen and his compatriot Liu Yongcheng came to China to join the women's doubles and men's doubles teams training respectively.
When he first received the invitation of the Chinese Badminton Association, Jiang Jingzhen bluntly said that he could not believe it, after all, the Chinese women's doubles, which was once the world hegemon, had such a brilliant record, but he still resolutely decided to take over the handsome seal.
"Because from the time I was an athlete to the head coach of the Korean team, the Chinese badminton team has always been a world-class team with a lot of talents. I feel honored to be the first foreign coach invited by the Chinese badminton team. ”
Polly/Rahayo combination.
Pretend not to understand Korean "do it again"
Since then, Jiang Jingzhen has had 16 more "daughters".
At that time, the Chinese women's doubles, the game was played with a mistake basket, Jiang Jingzhen tried her best. His technical training seems to be able to derive endless methods, and multi-ball lessons will become much more fun.
"Sometimes he would send straight lines to slashes, slashes to straight lines, horizontal lines to vertical lines, and everyone would run around the whole field very widely, and each group needed to spread out all their strength to catch the ball. Another example is to strengthen coherence, rub and push hook between three or four beats to change the strain of the network predecessors. ”
A team member said. Whenever they have almost mastered it, the next new content full of fun and freshness comes again.
Jia Yifan, who has the most Korean vocabulary, broke the news that because there is no pronunciation of "f" in Korean, the team members with "f" in their names have fallen into the "hard-hit area" - every time Coach Jiang shouted her name, it was Jia Yifat, and Feng Xueying also became fat Xueying.
"People sometimes pretend they don't understand Korean to 'do it again,' but they react very quickly to the 'last time(Majima)'." Since then, Jiang Jingzhen has formed a coaching style of Chinese, English and Korean three Chinese, plus body language assistance.
This kind of "mysterious power" that only their own team members understand, escorting the Chinese women's doubles, step by step to Tokyo.
"Van Chan Combination", Paris is back.
You can lose, but you can't lose momentum
More than 600 days and nights of polishing allow the Chinese women's doubles to stand confidently on the Olympic field, and can make the 24-year-old Chen Qingchen roar for the first time in the Olympic Games. Even if the final outcome is a bit disappointing.
After the defeat of the men's doubles rush, former national feather captain Cai Yun posted: "When you can appreciate how many people behind you pay for you, you will be desperate." "It alludes to the fact that the men's doubles can lose, but not the momentum.
Gao Lan, the two-time Olympic champion who participated in the closed training of Guo Yu in Chengdu, had previously sighed enviously: "The current team members are too happy, and they are eager for several people to 'serve' a person, from logistics, rehabilitation, physical fitness, all-round support, and a special scientific research team to do technical analysis of opponents." ”
Gao Kun said that although the opponent is strong, what is stronger is the training guarantee of the country and the strong support of the whole team.
"So don't feel inferior to others, how about participating in the Olympics for the first time?" Play to your strengths on the field and enjoy the game to the fullest. This is the proverb that Gao Kun gave to The Little Master Sister before Guo Yu went out on the expedition.
For the "Fan Chen Combination", the defeat is not the end, and in Paris 3 years later, they still have a chance.
Senior Editor of this issue Xing Tan