She was expelled from the national team for her height of only 1.64 meters, and became a legend for playing French citizenship!
Competitive sports have brought us a lot of passion and joy, and our attention to sports competition is getting higher and higher. We know that most sports have very high standards for the height and body type of athletes. For example, basketball, which we are very familiar with, as an inside player, the height must be very high, and as an outside player, the shooting and breakthrough speed must be faster. After all, the professional arena is not an amateur game, and once the opponent finds a physical disadvantage, it will be infinitely magnified. But it is not that the size of the problem necessarily determines the future of athletes, such as the NBA's Boggs, although only 1.6 meters tall, but he played 889 regular season games in the NBA, of which 556 were starters.
So a lot of times, we can't judge an athlete's future by stature. For example, today Sakura wants to talk to everyone about this, she was expelled from the national team because of the height problem, but later chose to join the French nationality, became a legend in the French badminton world, and her personal ranking once came to the second position in the world, she is Pi Hongyan. Pi Hongyan began to receive professional and systematic badminton training at the age of 8, and then entered the Chinese badminton team with excellent strength. In 1999, Pi Hongyan won the US Open Badminton Championships for China. However, after returning to China, Pi Hongyan waited not to celebrate her good results, but to be told by the coach. Because she is only 1.64 meters tall and does not have much prospects for the development of her playing style, she was expelled from the national team and transferred back to the provincial team to continue training.
Back in the provincial team, Pi Hongyan almost fell to the point of no ball to play, and only 2 games in the whole year were relatively large-scale events. Because there was no game to play, the natural salary was not much, and she only had a salary of 600 yuan when she was in the provincial team. It was also at this time that the French Danish club extended an olive branch to Pi Hongyan and invited her to play in the Danish league. After thinking about it for a while, Pi Hongyan chose to go to Denmark. When playing in the Danish league, the French badminton team invited her to become a French citizen and represent France. In the end, in order to continue her badminton dream, Pi Hongyan also chose to join the French nationality.
Pi Hongyan, who joined the French nationality, is also more strict with herself, and her strength has been further improved. During her time in France, she won the Badminton Open three times in a row, and her world ranking once came to the second place in the world. What is more worth mentioning is that in the 2004 All England Open Badminton Championships, Pi Hongyan eliminated Malting, the biggest obstacle to China's victory, in 38 minutes, and Pi Hongyan later laughed in an interview: Today is the way for the Chinese women's team to win the championship. It is not difficult to see that even though he has already represented France, Pi Yanhong has never forgotten that he is a Chinese.