On July 1, Beijing time, a sad news came that during the mixed team group stage of the 2024 Asian Youth Badminton Championships held in Indonesia, Zhang Zhijie, a 17-year-old player of the Chinese badminton team, passed away suddenly.
In the game against the Japanese player, the first game was tied at 11, Zhang Zhijie suddenly fell to the ground when the opponent was about to serve, and there were body convulsions, about 30 seconds after falling to the ground, the on-site event medical team entered the court, and after about 30 seconds, the stretcher entered the field to carry Zhang Zhijie out of the court for further treatment. After the incident, the Asian Badminton Association and the Indonesian Badminton Association issued a statement, saying that Zhang Zhijie died in the hospital at 23:20 local time on June 30. Zhang Zhijie was "taken to the on-call ambulance and taken to the hospital in less than two minutes," but ultimately failed to save his young life, the statement said.
Zhang Zhijie was born in Jiaxing in January 2007, and has been involved in badminton since kindergarten, and was transferred to the Zhejiang provincial team in the third grade of primary school, and will enter the national youth team in 2023. Zhang Zhijie has won the men's and men's singles championship of the 15-year-old group of the U15-17 finals of the 2022 National U-Series Badminton Competition, the men's singles champion and men's team champion of Group B of the 2023 National Youth Badminton Championships, the men's singles champion of the 2024 Dutch Youth Badminton International Championships, and the men's team champion of Group B of the 2024 National Youth Badminton Championships.
In the last interview of his life, Zhang Zhijie also showed a good mental state, saying that he would work hard to catch up with other masters and prove himself through competition results. However, before he could win more honours, the young player suffered a tragedy.
It is rumored on the Internet that Zhang Zhijie's family posted a complaint about the tragedy caused by Indonesia's untimely medical team and poor medical conditions: After the incident, Zhang Zhijie's family has been contacting the coach, and it took a long, long time to get in touch, and learned that Zhang Zhijie's last hope was to be transferred to the hospital for treatment, but was finally told that Zhang Zhijie had died.
There have been many cases of emergency medical treatment on the sports field in the past, and the speed and professionalism of on-site treatment at critical moments is precisely the difference between life and death.