In the 2024 Youth Badminton Asian Championships Mixed Team Competition, in the final, the Chinese team defeated the South Korean team with a big score of 3-1 and regained the Asian Youth Championship team championship after six years. Originally, the Asian Youth Championships was not a big competition, but because of the sudden death of the national feather genius Zhang Zhijie in the game, the attention of the outside world was focused here.
After experiencing the death of their teammates, many people were worried that the young players of the national youth team would be affected, but they turned their grief into strength and defeated Chinese Taipei, Malaysia, and South Korea in the knockout round.
In the final, the teammates left a place for Zhang Zhijie to cheer on, and put on his team uniform, according to the rules of the badminton team competition, as long as he has played, he can stand on the final podium, so this championship also has Zhang Zhijie's share. In order to help Zhang Zhijie realize his dream, his teammates wiped their tears and held his jersey to the highest podium, which was considered a wish of his. Not only is the national youth concerned about Zhang Zhijie, but Chen Yufei also posted a message after the game to mourn this talented junior brother: "We are together, and you are the champion!" In the comment section, many people burst into tears because of this sentence.
According to Reuters on July 2, citing Indonesian media sources, the Indonesian Badminton Association said that Zhang Zhijie died of cardiac arrest. Moreover, Zhang Zhijie was sent to two hospitals successively, and when he was sent to the first, he had no pulse, and then sent to the second hospital, where the conclusion of examination and treatment was the same, saying that the others "experienced cardiac arrest".
Zhang Zhijie, who lost his father at an early age, worked hard to support his mother, who raised him and his sister, but died unexpectedly when he was on the rise, which caused a huge blow to his family. The mother was hospitalized, and the sister could not accept that the event party missed the best time for her younger brother to be rescued. According to the media, Zhang Zhijie's enlightenment coach said that Zhijie has been in good health since he was a child and has no history of heart disease, and his uncle-in-law also confirmed that the family has no heart-related diseases.
If there is no competition in Southeast Asia, if the Chinese coach is brave and calls for help as soon as possible, if the medical team can be responsible, why cause a tragedy? Looking at the successful case of Eriksen being rescued in the last European Cup, you can see how many irregularities there are in the current development of badminton!
We commemorate Zhang Zhijie today, not just in words, but to help his family get an explanation, should be held accountable, should claim compensation, but also urge the Chinese Badminton Association to dare to fight against the World Badminton Federation, change the unreasonable rules, and at the same time we should popularize the basic knowledge of emergency rescue, to avoid tragedy and sometimes helpless!