There was once a big sister on the Chinese table tennis stage, she began to play from the age of 5, retired at the age of 22, in her sports career, has won the world championship many times, creating a brilliant era of Chinese table tennis.
In 1998, at the peak of her career, she suddenly announced her retirement, went to Tsinghua University for further study, and then went to France to study for a doctorate, and after returning to China, she devoted herself to the business community and was committed to promoting the development of China's sports industry.
After the gorgeous turn, she was said to have no management experience, brought the company to bankruptcy, and a ambiguity photo of her studying abroad, which made the public mistakenly think that it was admirable, and all kinds of public opinion made the former world champion highly criticized by the public.
This year, she was invited to a show that she looked more like a scholar after fading her Olympic champion aura, making it difficult to associate her with a world-renowned world champion.
But her eyes are still strong, she still maintains the momentum of fighting on the field, and applies this spirit to her new life goals in the public welfare cause.
As she said on the show, my unique skill is to do it, how can I work without doing it?
She is the "table tennis queen" who created the world table tennis era, Deng Yaping.
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Deng Yaping, born in 1976 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, her father Deng Dasong is a table tennis player in the Henan Provincial Team.
When Deng Yaping was 2 years old, she was taken to the training ground by her father every day on her bicycle to watch her father and teammates play.
When she was 5 years old, her father made a special wooden box for her, and Deng Yaping stepped on it to learn to play table tennis with her father.
Dad has high hopes for Deng Yaping, accompanies Deng Yaping to train every day, and also designs a set of training methods for Deng Yaping's height, arm length and other characteristics, which is exclusive to her.
Sports training is the hardest, but also trained Deng Yaping not to accept the strength of defeat, in the process of practicing, the little person grabbed the racket to the arm swollen, Deng Yaping did not say a word, Dad looked at the pain.
Deng Yaping's road to table tennis was not smooth, because of her short size, she was once rejected by the Henan provincial team.
Dad has always encouraged her, others say you can't do it, you must let him see you do, the process must be very hard, you have to pay several times more time than others to train.
Deng Yaping did not disappoint her father, and Deng Yaping changed the rule that table tennis players were only selected from tall men with her strength.
She participated in the national amateur sports school competition at the age of 9, won the singles championship, because of her excellent results, she was selected by the Zhengzhou table tennis team at the age of 10, left her hometown, and came to Zhengzhou City alone, while learning cultural classes, while conducting professional training.
In 1986, Deng Yaping was seconded to the Henan provincial team with excellent results, and in this year, she represented the Henan team in the national championships, winning the team and individual championships, which also attracted the attention of the national coach Zhang Xielin.
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At the age of 15, Deng Yaping officially entered the Chinese table tennis national team and began her table tennis career by virtue of her repeatedly winning championships.
However, when she entered the national team, because Deng Yaping was too short, some coaches did not agree to her joining the national team.
It was Coach Zhang Xielin who insisted that Deng Yaping was a good seedling, and resolutely brought her into the national team despite the opposition of others.
Dad's words once again sounded in Deng Yaping's ears, in order not to embarrass Coach Zhang, but also to fight for herself, Deng Yaping grasped all the time to train every day, others practiced for an hour, she practiced for 2 hours.
Relying on her own painstaking cultivation, Deng Yaping practiced a set of her own playing style, at the age of 16, Deng Yaping represented the national team for the first time to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, and formed a double team with Qiao Hong to win the women's doubles championship.
At this moment, Deng Yaping was angry and could not stop winning the grand prize, she won almost all the world championships, which made table tennis opponents in various countries feel frightened.
In the 14 years of table tennis career, Deng Yaping has won a total of 18 world championships, maintaining the first place in the world table tennis ranking for 8 consecutive years, and the media called this period "Deng Yaping era".
This small girl, relying on her own strength, proved to the world that small people can also play table tennis, and small people can also win world championships.
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The hard injuries of athletes are years of training, competition, and falling body pain, and Deng Yaping is no exception.
In 1997, the injured Deng Yaping could no longer continue to be active on the table tennis stage, and she gave up all her championship titles and chose to retire.
At this time, a person gave her the key advice in life, let her go to college and learn cultural knowledge, this person is the former head of the International Olympic Committee Samaranch.
Deng Yaping and Samaranch have a deep friendship, Samaranch also has a special preference for Deng Yaping, in 1992, at the Barcelona Olympic Games, Samaranch personally presented the award for the champion Deng Yaping, and lovingly patted her cheek.
Samaranch has a high opinion of Deng Yaping, praising Deng Yaping as an athlete with motivation and not accepting defeat, and in Deng Yaping she sees the Olympic spirit of promoting the world!
Deng Yaping said: Without Samaranch's care, there would be no her today.
It was also under the encouragement of Samaranch that Deng Yaping, who did not know anything about English, worked hard to learn English, which also laid the foundation for her to enter Tsinghua University in the future. In 2001, Deng Yaping gave a speech in fluent English at the Beijing Olympic Bid Speech Conference, contributing to the success of the Olympic bid.
After graduating from Tsinghua University, in her own efforts, Deng Yaping was included in the list of Tsinghua and cambridge universities in the United Kingdom, it is worth mentioning that her tuition fees abroad, Samaranch decided to be fully responsible for the International Olympic Committee.
Deng Yaping has come all the way, there are noble people to help, there is luck, more or she herself does not accept defeat, does not admit defeat, and has to do a good job of faith support.
In 2008, Deng Yaping graduated from Cambridge with a doctorate, becoming the first Olympic champion in Cambridge to receive a doctorate.
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Deng Yaping returned to her motherland after graduation. A year later, Deng Yaping became the general manager of the "Instant Search" company co-founded by the People's Daily and the People's Daily.
Incredibly, 2 years later, this multi-billion project somehow stopped operating, and the internet circulated because of Deng Yaping's poor management.
Immediately the company's employees said that Deng Yaping was the most desperate in the company, she came to the company early every day, but she left the company at the latest.
Deng Yaping for the development of the company, has visited Li Kaifu, Ma Yun, Zhang Chaoyang and other Internet bigwigs, for Deng Yaping, who does not understand technology and does not understand operation, those 2 years, really desperately want to run the company.
Falling into the negative Deng Yaping, until the company closed down did not come out to clarify the original commission behind it, many years later, someone asked deng Yaping again about these negative rumors, Deng Yaping just smiled, believe that justice is in the hearts of the people.
Later, some people also reported photos of Deng Yaping kneeling to worship the Pope on the Internet, and the news that her son was a French national, which once again pushed Deng Yaping in front of people, saying that she was admiring and charming.
In the face of all this, Deng Yaping responded online: just received the degree certificate from the head of the college, not the pope, not the clergy, and also posted her son's nationality on the Internet, so that all rumors could not be broken.
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In 2004, Deng Yaping and former national team table tennis player Lin Zhigang fell in love and married, and 2 years later, Deng Yaping gave birth to her son Lin Hanming in France, and the happy days of the family of three began.
Just like her father taught her back then, her son learned to play table tennis with Deng Yaping at a very young age, and Lin Hanming inherited his mother's excellent genes and made small achievements in the table tennis project.
The family is so happy, and Deng Yaping has also accelerated her pace in her career.
Although Deng Yaping has left the sports stage for many years, she is still active on the Chinese sports stage, and she established Deng Yaping Sports Industry Investment Fund Company in Zhengzhou to continue to shine for the development of China's sports industry.
Deng Yaping also uses the advantages of her company to make her own efforts for the sports cause in poor mountainous areas, helping those poor children with sports talent to realize their sports dreams.
Deng Yaping has always been keen on public welfare undertakings, most of her Olympic champion funds let her donate to schools in poor mountainous areas, in 2021 Zhengzhou rainstorm disaster, Deng Yaping once again donated 500,000 yuan to help the affected people through the difficulties.
Deng Yaping, 48 years old this year, will make public welfare into her own life's work, she uses her own strength to summon more capable and enthusiastic sports people to make their own efforts for the vigorous development of Chinese sports.
When interviewed by a reporter, she said that her eyes are still as clear as before, she still maintains the style of the "ping-pong queen" of tigers and tigers, she has not changed at all, or the kind, hard-working Deng Yaping.
From the Olympic champion gorgeous turn to sports investors, Deng Yaping on this road is very hard, but it is worth it, as a sports person, she not only represents a spirit of Chinese sports, she also let more sports people and people who love sports see the future direction of life.
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Author: An Xiaoqi