With just over a year to go until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese side has already launched an impact on China's table tennis and badminton, two major gold medal sports, in order to be able to win gold in order to win gold on its own land! In order to cope with the great changes in the Chinese sports world, after Liu Guoliang succeeded Cai Zhenhua to take charge of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Cai Zhenhua stepped down from the 1 heavy position of the chairman of the Badminton Association, and Li Yongbo's right-hand man Zhang Jun when he was the head coach of the national featherweight was reused by the General Administration to take over the baton!
On the morning of January 28, Beijing time, the 6th National Congress of the Chinese Badminton Association was held at the Temple of Heaven Hotel in Beijing, and Zhang Jun, former Olympic mixed doubles gold medalist, head coach of the Chinese badminton team doubles team and vice chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association, was elected as the chairman of the new China Badminton Association. Previously, the chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association was Cai Zhenhua, which means that after Cai Zhenhua no longer served as the head of the Table Tennis Association, he stepped down from the 1 major positions of the chairman of the Badminton Association, and Zhang Jun was Cai Zhenhua's successor in the Badminton Association.
Li Yongbo, who was previously known as the "Emperor of Chinese Badminton", no longer serves as the vice chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association this time, xia Xuanze, Liu Jin, Tang Jiuhong, Wang Wei, Chen Xingdong, Zhao Jianhua, and Sun Jun, a total of 7 people were elected as the new vice chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association, and Wang Wei is also the secretary general of the China Badminton Association. Not long ago, some media exposed the picture of Li Yongbo watching the CBA game, although he still wears the iconic little black hat, but it is difficult to hide his full white hair, which makes people very emotional. This big blood change of the Chinese Badminton Association also means the official end of the "Li Yongbo Era" of Chinese badminton!
Zhang Jun won all the badminton mixed doubles championships in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, and since October 13, 2008, Zhang Jun has been the coach of the men's doubles team of the national badminton team, and he was Li Yongbo's right-hand man and made great contributions to the development of badminton in China. In order to reverse the unfavorable situation of the confrontation between China and Japan in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Zhang Jun specially responded to the way Kuniyu defeated the Japanese team at the inaugural meeting!
Zhang Jun particularly stressed that the first priority of the current badminton association is to complete the preparation and participation tasks of the Tokyo Olympic Games. He said that he would inherit and carry forward the glorious tradition of Chinese badminton, use the strength of the whole country and the whole society to do a good job in preparing for the Tokyo Olympic Games, the first goal is to strive to participate in the Olympic Games at full capacity, and the ultimate goal is to launch a comprehensive impact on the five Olympic champions.
Zhang Jun also believes that although the Chinese badminton team shouldering the heavy responsibility of rushing gold in the Olympic Games is currently facing many difficulties and challenges, the whole team and the badminton community throughout the country should strengthen their faith, boost their morale, do a good job in details, and face the challenges with fearless courage and boldness and solid and meticulous preparations.