The Paris Olympics will open on July 27, Beijing time, and the table tennis event will start on the evening of the same day.
Yoo Seung-min, president of the Korea Table Tennis Association, came to the Korean table tennis training venue today to personally hold the racket and train with the Olympic team members, and share his championship winning experience and Olympic experience. In addition, he also made a pre-war mobilization, especially emphasizing: Don't be afraid of the Chinese players!
In this Olympic Games, the Korea team is expected to fully compete with the Chinese team in five events. In the mixed doubles event, Han Lin and Shen Yubin served as the No. 3 seeds in the tournament, and they are another favorite to win the championship after Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha, Zhang Benzhi and Hina Hayata, two Chinese and Japanese pairs.
In singles, the participating players have a certain impact on the national table tennis, especially the men's singles Zhang Yuzhen, don't look at his usual performance, but when he arrived at the competition, the genes in his heart were awakened, and Desperate Saburo appeared, and it was precisely because of this that he ushered in his best record in the Grand Slam in May!
Needless to say, since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China and South Korea have competed many times, usually on the semi-finals or finals stage. The reason why Yoo Seungmin warned everyone not to be afraid of the Chinese team may also be related to this, after all, in so many years of competition, the Korea team has not won the national table tennis in the team event!
However, Yoo Seungmin's words have another meaning: the variables at the singles level are large, and he himself is the best case. 20 years ago, it was estimated that few people would have thought that Yoo Seungmin would be able to surpass the gods and go all the way to the top before the game. Maybe more people were more optimistic about Wang Liqin and Ma Lin at that time, after all, they were the top two seeds!
In the end, Yoo Seungmin shattered the Olympic championship dreams of all other competitors with his supernatural performance, and that fight has been sung for 20 years and is still a favorite. The current momentum looks like it will be no problem to be popular for 20 years!
In fact, the competition is like this, no matter how big the gap between the strength of you and your opponent is, it has been decided at this time, and now the variable is to see who has high confidence and plays well, come on athletes!