If you want to talk about the outstanding talents of our country in the field of table tennis, it is really inexhaustible, and among them, there is no one who has been active in the table tennis arena is Liu Guoliang, the head coach of our national team.
When he was young, he won numerous medals, and when he became a coach, he led the national team to overcome obstacles in the world arena and won countless honors.
However, what many people forget is that Wang Tao, a table tennis star player who was once at the same time as him, was not much worse than him, and even had a higher rank in the army than him.
Now 57 years old, although he is much thinner than before, he still has produced many Olympic champions for the country.
Wang Tao, who was born in 67, was actually a native of Beijing, and China at that time relied on table tennis to become famous in the world.
Although he has not participated in the Olympic Games, he has participated in and held world-class table tennis events many times, so he grew up in Beijing, and he has been familiar with table tennis since he was a child.
And although his father and mother were both artistic talents, his father was very interested in "national football" and was friends with many world champions at that time.
Therefore, from the time Wang Tao was very young, his father thought that he must teach him to be an excellent table tennis player.
Although he was too young to train a lot, his father would often take him to the game site.
In such a strong atmosphere, Wang Tao naturally developed a very deep interest in table tennis, and his father saw this situation and knew that his efforts were not in vain.
So in order to strike while the iron was hot, his father invited Guo Yuehua and other champions to come to the house to teach him "many to one".
Because there was no venue, his father directly cleaned up a room in the family and then purchased many professional tools for table tennis training.
Therefore, from a very young age, Wang Tao was destined to go all the way down the road of table tennis.
He himself is also very competitive, showing unparalleled talent, if he continues like this, the future will definitely be to become a rising star.
Therefore, when he was ten years old, in order to allow him to have a better development, his father directly sent him to a sports school for systematic training.
Everyone is looking forward to the day when he wins the title and then makes the national team.
But the idea is very beautiful, but the reality is very cruel, I don't know if it is because the physical development is affected by training too early, or because of genetics, Wang Tao, who has a very good family life, is only 1.65 meters tall.
Although you don't need to be too tall to play table tennis, if you are too low, your limbs will be shorter, which will also greatly affect the performance of a table tennis player.
So after finishing his study and life in the sports school, he didn't even want him from the municipal team, even if he played very well, in the eyes of the coach of the city team, the future was destined to be nothing.
This is tantamount to a very big blow to Wang Tao, in order to find a chance for him to continue playing, his father ran several teams, all in vain.
But fortunately, the infrastructure engineering team in our army has a discerning eye and recruits him into the team for training.
So Wang Tao happily packed up his things and entered the army to play, which is one of the reasons why he was later awarded such a high rank, after all, he was a talent cultivated in the army.
It's a pity that he has just been training here for a year, but he didn't expect the infrastructure engineering team to be disbanded.
Fortunately, because he has entered the army, he will not end up in a situation where he has no ball to play, but his next stop is indeed a bit far.
From Beijing, the center of the motherland, he was assigned to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region on the border, which is very difficult for ordinary people to accept, but for 14-year-old Wang Tao, as long as he can play, he can go wherever he wants.
His parents didn't expect that their young son would have such courage and consciousness, so they had no choice but to agree to their son's visit to Xinjiang.
That time in Xinjiang was probably the hardest time in his life, after all, he had enjoyed a happy life in the capital, and it was really difficult for him to adapt to a different place all of a sudden.
But Wang Tao relied on his tenacious and tenacious spirit, not only persevered here, but was also recruited back by the Bayi team with excellent results.
Since then, the improvement of his table tennis strength can be regarded as truly entering the "highway".
As long as he can perform well in the Bayi team, then it is very likely that he will be selected for the national team of his dreams.
Wang Tao is a low-key and diligent person who trains with a dull head, and since he has set the goal, he will definitely complete it without compromising his efforts at all.
Even in the Bayi team, which is full of strong players, he is definitely one of the best players in it, and it is only a matter of time before he is selected for the national team.
However, reality still gave him a blow in the face.
Unexpectedly, even though he has performed so well, the national team still turned him away because he was too low.
Wang Tao, who has been hit countless times, is not discouraged, but he trains as usual every day, and he believes that if it is gold, it will shine and someone will see it.
Finally, when he was 21 years old, he was recruited by the national team and really became a member of it.
In the eighties and nineties, in the dark period of our Chinese table tennis world, the Chinese army hit a wall many times on the world stage, and it no longer looked like it was in the past.
And Wang Tao and his partner have kept the glory of national table tennis again and again.
World Table Tennis Championships, he won gold medals and first place in the Olympic Games.
With the status of a soldier, he was also awarded the honor of first-class merit in the army, which is very rare among all table tennis players.
However, there will always be a day when the curtain will end, and the veteran will not die, but just wither.
In the men's singles final of another Olympic Games, he was defeated by Liu Guoliang, a latecomer and a key figure in the mainland table tennis world, and won a silver medal in one fell swoop.
Since then, he has known that his mission as an athlete has come to an end.
His active career as a coach in the table tennis world is about to officially begin!
Not long after retiring, he was appointed head coach of his "hometown" Bayi team.
This team is an honorary team that has produced numerous Olympic champions.
Under his hands, there have been world-renowned players such as Wang Hao and Fan Zhendong, and the championship honor is even softer.
When he was 35 years old, he was awarded the rank of major general that no one in the table tennis world has ever had, isn't this another victory?
Even Liu Guoliang probably had to salute when he saw him wearing a military uniform.
Now 57 years old, he is about to reach retirement age, although he is much thinner than before, but he is also more energetic, and maybe he can shine again.
However, it is interesting that he and his apprentices Wang Hao and Fan Zhendong have not won the Olympic men's singles championship, which is also a point that they regret.
I hope that in this Olympic Games, Fan Zhendong can bring his master's wish to achieve better results.
Information source: Wang Tao Douyin Encyclopedia
China Military Network: Wang Tao
Guangming.com: It's hard to say that Wang Tao is retired
Documentary TV series "Behind the Gold Medal"
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