The Chinese badminton team has always been the dominant sport in the Chinese sports world, and has won many honors for the country over the years. There are many influential people in the badminton team, one of whom is called the queen of badminton by everyone, she is Li Lingwei, mentioning Li Lingwei, many young fans do not know, but older fans must be very familiar.
Born in 1964, Li Lingwei was selected for the national team in 1980.
In her athletic career, she has won a total of 38 gold medals in major international competitions, including 13 world champions, becoming the female athlete with the most world championships in China. She was the first female singles badminton player in the history of world badminton to combine gold medals in the World Championships, World Cup, All England Championships and World Series Grand Prix Finals. It is known as the "Queen of Badminton" and "the Queen of Badminton of a Generation" by the world badminton.
After retiring from the army, Li Lingwei served as the assistant coach of the national team, and there was a very sensational thing in the national badminton team at that time, because of the suspicion of the economic problems of the badminton team, Li Lingwei and the badminton team members and coaches at that time joined forces to impeach the head coach of the national team, Li Yongbo. The economic problems they are referring to are not that Li Yongbo is corrupt and bribed, but that Li Yongbo has not fulfilled his due responsibilities in the management of the team. Later, Li Yongbo stayed in office, and Li Lingwei left the national team. In this struggle between Li Yongbo and Li Lingwei, Li Yongbo laughed to the end.
Li Lingwei, who left the national team, ushered in a new spring in her career, and he began to serve as vice president of the Chinese Badminton Association and became a director of the International Badminton Federation. Later, Li Lingwei was admitted to beijing sport university as a doctoral candidate, and her supervisor was He Zhenliang, a member of the International Olympic Committee. Li Lingwei was also transferred to the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee during the preparations for the Beijing Olympic Games and became the flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
Li Lingwei's career after leaving the national team can be said to be thriving, from this point she should thank Li Yongbo, if there is no li Yongbo's things, she is afraid that she is still a coach in the national team. However, Li Lingwei and Li Yongbo still have quite a relationship, and Li Lingwei later became the deputy director of the Table Tennis and Feather Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport, and became Li Yongbo's boss.
In 2012, Li Lingwei became a member of the International Olympic Committee, and three years later, she became the director of the Tennis Sports Management Center and the secretary of the party committee.