At the just-concluded Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese table tennis team performed well and won four golds. Among them, the "Little Devil" Sun Yingsha won 1 gold and 1 silver in her first Olympic Games, and defeated Ito Mimachi twice.
According to today's "Hengshui Daily" news, Sun Yingsha's father, Sun Dongming, revealed that in April this year, Sun Yingsha's grandmother died of a sudden illness. "At that time, Sasha was training in closed training to prepare for the Olympics, and we were afraid of affecting her, so we kept hiding the news." For more than three months, every time Sun Yingsha called to greet her, her family would bypass the topic of grandma.
On August 8, after Sun Yingsha won the victory with the Chinese table tennis team, Sun Dongming told her the news of her grandmother's death on the phone. Sun Yingsha kept sobbing, and her voice was hoarse: "I know..."
Sun Yingsha has a deep relationship with her grandmother, and has always been taken by her grandparents when she was a child; when she went to the gym to practice in her childhood, she was often accompanied by her grandparents.
As for why he hid the news, Sun Dongming explained that he was worried that his daughter's mood swings were too large, affecting her training. In the face of national honor, the family made the important decision to withhold information.
In fact, many champion families have chosen the former in the face of national honor and personal affection.
At the 2012 London Olympics, gymnast Zhang Chenglong successfully defended the men's team championship with his teammates. In the year of preparing for the Olympics, Zhang Chenglong's grandfather and grandfather died one after another, and the family was afraid of affecting his preparation for the Olympics, and they never told Zhang Chenglong these news, "Telling him what use he can have is nothing more than increasing his burden." Mother Geng Qinghong said.
On May 26, 2012, the Chinese women's badminton team regained the Uber Cup in Wuhan. But on the afternoon of May 18, the grandmother of women's doubles star Wang Xiaoli died of illness, and her family served to influence her game, and only told her the bad news after winning the Uber Cup, and Wang Xiaoli washed his face with tears on the night of the victory.
This matter was later reported by the media and caused a hot discussion, and many netizens put forward different views: Is a championship trophy really more important than seeing grandma's last side?