One
Born in September 1959 in an ordinary family in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, Shi Zhihao began practicing table tennis at the age of 6.
In 1973, Shi Zhihao entered the railway table tennis team, and after about a year in the railway table tennis team, Shi Zhihao entered the Bayi team.
After three or four years of training in the Bayi team, 19-year-old Shi Zhihao entered the national team, and this year, a female athlete in Shanghai who was three years younger than Shi Zhihao also entered the national table tennis team.
Although Shi Zhihao was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang, he followed his parents to Shanghai when he was very young, so he grew up in Shanghai.
Both of them were the leaders of the Shanghai table tennis team at that time, they had known each other for a long time, and they entered the national team at about the same time, so naturally there were more topics.
Around 1980, the two had other feelings beyond ordinary friends, but at this time the management of the national team was very strict, and the most important thing was that both were still the main force of the team at that time.
At the 36th World Table Tennis Championships in 1981, the three main players of the men's team were Cai Zhenhua, Shi Zhihao and Xie Saike, and Cao Yanhua was the first main force of the women's team.
Finally, at this World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese men's and women's teams won the team championship, Shi Zhihao only achieved the top eight results in the men's singles, and Cao Yanhua won the women's doubles championship and the women's singles runner-up in addition to the women's team championship.
However, although the Chinese men's team eventually won the men's team championship, Shi Zhihao's performance was not outstanding, and he also lost two points in the final, putting the Chinese team in danger.
Therefore, after this World Table Tennis Championships, Shi Zhihao basically withdrew from the main lineup, and it did not take long to even fade out of the national team.
And Cao Yanhua in the 37th World Table Tennis Championships is still the first main force of the Chinese women's team, it is worth mentioning that her teammates who participated in the World Table Tennis Championships this time also have Ni Xialian, this World Table Tennis Championships Chinese women's team won the championship again, Cao Yanhua also won the women's singles championship at the same time, and Cai Zhenhua won the third place in mixed doubles, and Ni Xialian won the runner-up in women's doubles.
Cao Yanhua was not selected for the team competition at the 38th World Table Tennis Championships, but she once again won the women's singles title, as well as the mixed doubles championship with Cai Zhenhua and the women's doubles championship with Ni Xialian.
This table tennis event was not selected for the Olympic Games, nor was there a women's World Cup, so Cao Yanhua's performance was the top at that time, which was deng Yaping's previous "ping-pong queen".
Two
After this World Table Tennis Championships, Cao Yanhua chose to retire, and entered the palace of marriage with Shi Zhihao, who had already retired, and the love between the two finally came to fruition.
In 1987, Shi Zhihao was invited to coach at the Glenzao Table Tennis Club in Germany, and Cao Yanhua accompanied them, and they became the 97th and 98th residents of this small town in central Germany.
Three years later, they bought villas and high-end cars with swimming pools, and lived comfortably, Cao Yanhua washed, cooked, cleaned rooms, and became a housewife.
However, this happy life at a glance made Cao Yanhua, who was once an athlete, feel very confused, in order to pass this leisure time, Cao Yanhua opened a Chinese restaurant and became the owner himself.
He also started a Sino-German trade with his friends, while marrying and teaching his children, while taking care of business, life is very fulfilling, but there is still a sense of wandering in his heart.
In 1995, Shi Zhihao and Cao Yanhua returned to China with their son Shi Zexi to visit their relatives, during which they were invited by the Chinese Table Tennis Association to observe the 43rd World Table Tennis Championships held in Tianjin.
Cai Zhenhua, then the head coach of Chinese men's table tennis, advised the two of them: "Come back, there is a place for you in China."
Shi Zhihao was moved, in fact, he had been wandering abroad for 9 years, but they had always been concerned about their hometown, so their family of three returned to their hometown of Shanghai, and Shi Zhihao served as the head coach of Shanghai men's table tennis.
At the same time that Shi Zhihao was appointed as the head coach of Shanghai men's table tennis, Cao Yanhua did not idle, and successively opened a table tennis club and a Cao Yanhua table tennis school (Xu Xin and Shang Kun have many national players from this school).
After two years in the Shanghai team, Shi Zhihao received an invitation from Cai Zhenhua, who has become the head coach of the national table tennis team, invited her to coach the national team, as a coach, the national team coach everyone wants to go, at the same time Shi Zhihao and Cai Zhenhua are the same group of players, and the relationship is also very good.
At that time, Shi Zhihao wanted his wife and children to go to Beijing with him, but at that time, Cao Yanhua was also doing well in Shanghai and did not want to give up his hard-working career, so Shi Zhihao could only go to the national team alone.
After Shi Zhihao entered the national team, he first went to the women's second team as the head coach and became Cai Zhenhua's right arm.
Three
The national team coach was very busy, so it was not until the National Day of 1998 that Shi Zhihao returned to Shanghai to visit his relatives, and Cao Yanhua said to him: "I don't want to live such a life anymore, you come back, the son needs father's love when he is older."
But Shi Zhihao was unwilling to give up his career, and persuaded his wife to go to Beijing with him to reunite with the family, but Cao Yanhua was also unwilling to give up her career, and after the holiday, Shi Zhihao was leaving again, and before leaving, Cao Yanhua choked up: "I hope you can seriously consider my feelings and my son."
After that, the two fell into an endless quarrel, as long as the phone call to talk about the matter, followed by a quarrel, neither willing to give in.
In 1999, Shi Zhihao entered the women's first team and was the head coach of Li Ju and Yang Ying, and there was a small team member of the women's team at that time called Li Nan, who was 22 years younger than Shi Zhihao.
At the beginning of 2000, Shi Zhihao, who had not seen his wife and children for a year, returned to Shanghai, but his 7-year-old son looked at Shi Zhihao with almost strange eyes, which made Shi Zhihao very frightened.
For more than three years, the time he spent with his son did not add up to more than 20 days, and he owed too much to his son, and in the evening his wife Cao Yanhua took out a son's essay "My Father" and showed it to Shi Zhihao.
Szesi wrote: "My dad was very handsome, he was the coach of the national team, I missed him, but I had no impression of him...".
Cao Yanhua said to Shi Zhihao, "Since we are not willing to give in to each other, why should we be tied together?" ”
In this way, Cao Yanhua and Shi Zhihao secretly went through the divorce procedures without the parents and sons of both sides, in order not to make the old man suspicious, Cao Yanhua also sent his son to his grandparents every week.
After returning to Beijing, Shi Zhihao once again taught in the men's team, and at this time, Cai Zhenhua had already been promoted to the first level, serving as the director of the table tennis department of the Table Tennis Center of the General Administration of Sports, and also the head coach of the national table tennis team.
At this time, the head coach of the Chinese men's table tennis team is Yin Xiao, and the head coach of the women's team is Lu Yuansheng, both of whom are very senior coaches, and the results of the team are also obvious to all.
But Lu Yuansheng and Cai Zhenhua are not at odds, Cai Zhenhua is younger than Lu Yuansheng, but Cai Zhenhua has risen very fast, so there is some estrangement between the two.
Therefore, as Cai Zhenhua became more and more powerful, he wanted people to replace Lu Yuansheng, who was estranged from him.
Four
After divorcing Cao Yanhua, Shi Zhihao devoted all his body and mind to work, and because of the failure of this marriage, he once developed marital phobia.
However, at this time, there was a person who entered his life, that is, the female player Li Nan, who was 22 years younger than him, mentioned earlier, and the two met in 1997, when Shi Zhihao was still the head coach of the women's second team.
Shi Zhihao was very strict with Li Nan at the beginning, and Li Nan would also tell the coach that he had great trust in Shi Zhihao when he encountered any problems, but at that time, the two had no other ideas at all, after all, the difference between the 22 years of that era was still an insurmountable gap, not to mention that the two also had teachers and students.
Although there were no other thoughts, Li Nan admired Shi Zhihao very much, and no matter what the problem she told Shi Zhihao, Shi Zhihao could help her find a solution.
But sometimes worshipping a person all the time will become like, Li Nan is like this, and the young Li Nan's mind at that time was very pure, which made Shi Zhihao, who had experienced marriage failure, feel very solid with her and completely relax himself.
But this layer of window paper is not so easy to break, although the two have a good feeling for each other, but they dare not easily show it, always afraid of losing each other after saying what they are talking about.
In 2004, Li Nan left the national team, and at this time, her mood was very depressed, and many things could not be said to her family and friends, but she could talk to the most trusted coach.
Shi Zhihao carefully comforted Li Nan, and his words gave Li Nan great encouragement, making her feel that deep sense of security, and the two began to face up to this relationship that was not recognized by others.
After the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the new Olympic cycle, the national team coach campaign, at this time Cai Zhenhua is already the assistant director of the State General Administration of Sports, in the table tennis and badminton project has an absolute right to speak.
Moreover, he has long wanted to replace all "his own people" in some important positions, such as the 2003 men's team coach was taken over by Liu Guoliang, who was only 27 years old, even if the Athens Olympics lost the men's singles gold medal, the coaching position is still stable.
This time Cai Zhenhua wanted to let the good brother take the position of the head coach of the women's team, and Shi Zhihao naturally did not give in to such an opportunity, so in 2005, Shi Zhihao officially became the head coach of the Chinese women's team.
Five
In the national women's team at that time, the echelon was built very well, and the absolute main players were Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, two Grand Slam athletes, the Mesozoic athletes li Xiaoxia, Guo Yue, etc., and the young athletes also had Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning.
Therefore, after Shi Zhihao became the coach of the national women's team, the results of several competitions were still very prominent, after all, the strength of the Great Demon King was too strong, and almost no one could stop it.
Shi Zhihao and Li Nan's relationship made great progress in preparing for the Beijing Olympic Games, when Shi Zhihao was under great pressure, after all, this was the first Olympic Games after he became the head coach of the women's team.
And Li Nan, because he is also an athlete, will never affect Shi Zhihao's work, although many of the team members are Li Nan's former teammates, which makes Shi Zhihao more sure of Li Nan in his heart.
But he still has some concerns, after all, the gap between the two and the identity gap are very large, but Li Nan's words made her dispel her worries: "You are single, I am also single, others like to say what they want to say, let them say it, they say a month, half a year, a year will they say?" If you are still saying, it is not that we have a problem, it is that they have a problem."
So after the beijing Olympic Games, Shi Zhihao and Li Nan also began to be known by many people, but at this time, everyone paid more attention to the two big devils of the women's team, Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, who retired one after another.
In fact, although the women's team at that time retired, there were many outstanding athletes, the most outstanding of which was Guo Yue, who entered the national team at the age of 11, won the world championship at the age of 16, and won the Olympic Games at the age of 20.
But perhaps people are in good spirits, Shi Zhihao is "full of energy", and feels that Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia are all trained by former head coach Lu Yuansheng, while young players Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen were promoted from the second team to the first team after she became the head coach.
Because he wanted to cultivate his own disciples, he also publicly accused Guo Yue of being uneducated, winning by luck, and so on, which should not come from the coach's mouth.
Six
In the women's team final of the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, Shi Zhihao suddenly abandoned Li Xiaoxia and Guo Yue, leaving these two absolute main players in the current year to sit on the bench.
Instead, it used such an adventurous lineup with Liu Shiwen as the first main force, Ding Ning as the second main force, and veteran Guo Yan pressing the lineup, when Liu Shiwen was only 19 years old and played the first main force in the women's team final of the World Table Tennis Championships, while Ding Ning was only 20 years old.
Although liu shiwen and Ding Ning's strength is not inferior to li xiaoxia and Guo Yue at all, competitive sports are sometimes not just a competition of strength, especially such a world-class competition.
Those who can participate in the competition are all the masters of the world, and the gap between them is not so large, more of a competition of psychological quality and experience.
Therefore, Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning, two inexperienced young players, did not fully show their strength, Liu Shiwen lost two points and Ding Ning lost one point.
The record of Chinese women's table tennis winning the 99 consecutive championships of the women's team at the World Table Tennis Championships has been broken, which has also become the biggest stain on Shi Zhihao's coaching career.
After this World Table Tennis Championship, Shi Zhihao had to use Li Xiaoxia and Guo Yue again, while Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning were hidden in the snow for a period of time, the most important being Liu Shiwen.
As the first main force, she lost two points by herself and needed to bear the most important responsibility, after which Liu Shiwen did not have the opportunity to participate in many large competitions.
This also directly made Liu Shiwen miss the London Olympic Games, and Guo Yue also deteriorated because of Shi Zhihao's lack of attention, and in the London Olympic Games, she was the only main force of the women's team that participated in the Olympic Games at that time, but she could only participate in the third person of the team.
Shi Zhihao married Li Nan in early 2011 and gave birth to a daughter to Shi Zhihao in the second half of 2012.
In the new Olympic cycle of 2013, the national team coach ran again, once again Liu Guoliang served as the head coach of the national table tennis and the head coach of the men's team, Kong Linghui served as the head coach of the women's team, the most important thing is that only Kong Linghui participated in the election of the head coach of the women's team, Shi Zhihao and the former head coach of the women's team Lu Yuansheng did not participate, in fact, it was a formality, and the real decision was a private game.
After stepping down as the head coach of the women's team, Shi Zhihao did return to his hometown of Shanghai as the vice president of the Shanghai University of Sport and the first president of the China Table Tennis Academy, and was also elected vice president of the International Table Tennis Federation.
Guo Yue retired in 2014, and although Liu Shiwen has always been the main force of the national team, she has never enjoyed the treatment of the first main force.
If it were not for Shi Zhihao's seedlings, Liu Shiwen might have grown more perfectly, and Guo Yue would not have chosen to retire at the age of 26.
From this, we can see how much the impact of a decision maker's bad decision-making is, and the fate of many people has changed as a result!