On August 3, The head coach of the Japanese badminton team, Park Ju-bong, attended a press conference with Yudai Watanabe and Aisa Higashino, who won the bronze medal in mixed doubles. Park Joo-bong had a sad look on his face, saying that he should have congratulated The two players, Watanabe Isa and Higashino Aisa, but he couldn't laugh when he saw the dismal results in the rest of the events.
At this year's Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese badminton team competed in the strongest lineup in history but encountered Waterloo, Momota Kendou, Okuhara Hope, Watanabe Isamu / Dayu Endo, Fukushima Yuki / Hirota Saihana and other famous players have been out of the game early, only Watanabe Isa / Higashino Yusa won a bronze medal.
When Park Ju-bong exited the venue, he walked over to the Japanese reporter, bowed his head seriously, and said "I'm sorry." The Japanese media believes that from the perspective of the Olympic games, the Japanese players have lost to the pressure.
Momota Kendou, who was most likely to win the gold medal, was obviously crushed by the pressure on the scene, and lost 10 consecutive points in the first set, becoming the only player in the Japanese badminton team to stop in the group stage. Park Joo Bong said that Momota Kendou's defeat brought a lot of pressure to the other players in the team, "Momota lost 10 points in the early stage of the game, which is not the usual Momota player. From the beginning of this game, the atmosphere of the whole team was not very good."
Park Ju-bong pointed out before the game that 10 of the 13 players of the Japanese team are participating for the first time, and on the big stage of the Olympic Games, psychological factors are very important, and affected by the epidemic, the Japanese players have been out of actual combat for more than a year, "The players are fighting locally, and the competition without an audience has brought them a lot of pressure, and the training to cope with pressure and other aspects is seriously insufficient." ”
Park Joo-bong has joined the Japanese national badminton team since the 2004 Athens Olympics, gathering players from various clubs to form a national training team to compete abroad. At the 2012 London Olympics, Rishi Fujii / Reiko Akira Akiwa won the silver medal in women's doubles, and rio 2016 Rio Olympics Reika Takahashi / Misaki Matsutomo won the gold medal in women's doubles, and the team's performance gradually improved. Japanese media pointed out that the intensive training of the national team is the key factor in the success of Park Ju-bong's team.
Although the Japan Badminton Association has formulated a series of training plans since last year, it has been interrupted, even cancelled and postponed many times due to the epidemic, and each training camp needs to coordinate major clubs and players. Park Ju-bong once inspected the training of various clubs on the eve of the Olympic Games and found that not only did the players lack practical feelings, but even the coaches could not accurately grasp the state of the players.
At the same time, the Japanese media also realized that there were certain problems in the Japanese badminton training system that was previously proud, and the players were attached to the badminton clubs under the major enterprises, and if there was no corporate support, the players would be affected in terms of life and income. But if this continues to be the case, then the Japanese Badminton Association will not be able to take the lead over the players and will not be able to make adjustments in time, especially in the face of emergencies similar to the new crown pneumonia.
The Japan Badminton Association has decided to extend Park's contract until March 2025 ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Park Joo-bong is very unhappy about the defeat in Tokyo, saying that he wants to be humiliated at the Paris Olympics, "Although the goal is to achieve better results than the Rio Olympics 5 years ago, but so far there have been no good results, I feel very unhappy." I've come this far, do it again! I want to hold a reflection conference to launch an impact on the 2024 Paris Olympics. ”
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