In preparation for the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston in November, the national table tennis team is conducting closed training in Wenzhou. The Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the list of participants in the National Table Tennis World Table Tennis Championships a few days ago, and the three veterans Ma Long, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen will not participate. Xu Xin said that he wanted to take advantage of this time to accompany his family, Xu Xin, who stayed in Shanghai to accompany his family, was also full of itinerary and activities, today, he went to Shanghai University to participate in the school sports festival, Xu Xin also had a new title, becoming a visiting professor of Shanghai University.
As the winner of the two table tennis men's team championships at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, after the Tokyo Olympic Games, Xu Xin received one honor after another, and at the Shanghai Summary and Commendation Conference of the Olympic Games yesterday, Xu Xin was awarded the "Shanghai Sports Magnolia Outstanding Achievement Award" together with the cycling Olympic champion Zhong Angel, which is an affirmation of Xu Xin's achievements in his many years of table tennis career. Outside the arena, Xu Xin is also constantly improving, in early October, he was elected vice president of the Asian Table Tennis Federation, although his career is not over, but he has begun to prepare for retirement.
After deciding to withdraw from this year's World Table Tennis Championships, Xu Xin, Ma Long and Liu Shiwen did not go to Wenzhou to participate in this closed training. Xu Xin also took advantage of the rare vacation to accompany his wife and a pair of children to make up for the regret that he could not accompany his wife at important moments such as pregnancy and childbirth, child birth, birthday and so on. However, Xu Xin, who is on vacation, is not idle, he came to Shanghai University today to participate in the school sports festival activities, received the "visiting professor" certificate, awarded awards to the award-winning students, and interacted with the students at close range. When Xu Xin gave the students the award, he also took the initiative to shake hands with the students, which also caused a burst of cheers, and the students who failed to win the award shouted enviously: "Also shake hands!" ”
Xu Xin received a lot of enthusiasm from students everywhere he went, and he also said that he was happy to see so many students participating in sports activities. At the sports festival, in addition to Xu Xin, there is another national table tennis world champion in attendance, she is Cao Yanhua, who won the women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles, team champion and former female table tennis sister of the world table tennis championships. Seeing the teacher, although there was a person in the middle, Xu Xin also chatted with Cao Yanhua in the air. Xu Xin went to the table tennis school founded by Cao Yanhua in Shanghai to practice in 2002, under the guidance of Cao Yanhua, Xu Xin made rapid progress, and after four years, he entered the second team of national table tennis, and then started his national team career.