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Because of the Olympic table tennis mixed doubles championship after a three-year absence, I finally got it!
This is the first time that China has won the Olympic championship in this event since participating in the Olympic Games!
For our "national ball", saying "for the first time" on table tennis is really a niche text.
Therefore, how much pressure does the "Shatou Combination" composed of Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha have to bear.
Wang Chuqin actually said in the interview, this is I want to exchange my life for this gold medal, I did it!
Vowed to win this gold medal at the cost of their lives, it seems that they are ready to go all out.
However, on this difficult road to winning the championship, we should also mention a very important situation.
That is, this championship should also belong to another indispensable person, and she may be the biggest contributor to the "Shatou Combination" winning the championship.
Who is this man? Although she speaks Chinese, she is a foreigner! Could it be a naturalized player like Tomokazu Zhangmoto?
Yes, but she is not as annoying as Tomokazu Zhang.
She is Ni Xialian, who is now 61 years old and still participating in the Olympics.
In fact, Ni Xialian is now 61 years old, and she still has the courage to represent Luxembourg in the Olympics, which is already very remarkable.
And, very shockingly, Ni Xialian is in the table tennis women's singles.
They also beat Turkey's Sibel Altinkaya 4-2 to make it through the first round.
I have to say that this world is really full of magic, but speaking of which, what does Ni Xialian have to do with the "Shatou Combination" winning the table tennis mixed doubles championship this time?
The relationship is big! And hugely!
As we all know, this table tennis mixed doubles competition is really not simple.
You must know that the opponent in the final of the "Shatou Combination" is the North Korean team, known as the "Mysterious Division" at this Olympic Games.
In the first round, they easily eliminated the second seed Japan.
The Japan team is openly clamoring that as long as they play 90% to 100%, they can basically win medals.
After all, the last table tennis mixed doubles Olympic champion also belongs to their country.
But as soon as the Japan team came up, it was destroyed by the North Korean combination Kim Qin-young and Lee Jung-sik.
The North Korean team, known as the "Mysterious Division", caught them off guard.
Subsequently, the North Korean team became more and more courageous, and then defeated the old table tennis powerhouses, Sweden and Hong Kong, China.
Along the way, the opponents all spoke highly of this "mysterious division": "tacit cooperation, few mistakes, and extremely high quality of ball handling".
Even Xu Xin on the scene thought: "This mysterious master is not easy to mess with."
By the way, why is the North Korean team mysterious, not only because they haven't played much in the World Championships, but also in this interview.
The two members of the North Korean team smiled slightly, shook their heads and walked out of the mixed mining area quickly, not giving the world a chance to understand at all.
"Mystery" has become their label, their weapon, and a tool to deter their opponents!
In the table tennis mixed doubles competition, no one stopped and met our Chinese mixed doubles team in the final.
But we're going to get this damn championship.
But we don't have a lot of specific connections to this "mystery master", we can only find it from their games.
Jin Qinying, a female table tennis player, is accustomed to the "long rubber play", because the long rubber play is a play style that belongs to the last century, and there are not many people who have mastered it now.
At this time, just when we were in trouble and couldn't train, 61-year-old Ni Xialian appeared, and she came with her "long rubber play".
She released a video saying that the Chinese team would invite Ni Xialian to help the Chinese team conduct special training on "long rubber play".
Ni Xialian didn't hesitate at all, but the most important point is that Ni Xialian is about to face Sun Yingsha in the second round.
If Ni Xialian is against Sun Yingsha, she will use her own good playing style to train Sun Yingsha.
There is no doubt that it is to put his own weaknesses and targeting methods in front of Sun Yingsha.
But in this case, Ni Xialian still did not hesitate at all, she said:
Without the cultivation of the motherland and the cultivation of the Chinese team, what am I? Being able to remove a little obstacle for the motherland, Ni Xialian feels happy.
What a big table tennis player, in fact, Ni Xialian was also a member of our Chinese national team in 1979, and also won the women's team championship at the World Table Tennis Championships on behalf of China.
It was only to prolong his career that he became a Luxembourg citizen and played for Luxembourg until this Olympics.
Ni Xialian's best "left-handed long rubber racket" style of play, her ball path is unpredictable, and she does not play cards according to common sense, and is known as the "strange ball player".
Therefore, this special training for the "Shatou Combination", Ni Xialian is the most suitable.
Don't look at the 61-year-old people, it is the state of being old and strong, compared with Lian Po, and still able to eat.
In the process of training, Ni Xialian also had a cordial conversation with Chairman Liu Guoliang and mixed doubles coach Xiao Gui, in Ni Xialian's eyes, they are both younger brothers.
Judging from the process of this competition, I don't know if Ni Xialian's special training played a role, and the "Shatou Combination" reversed the normal state of entering a slow state.
The first game was quickly won with a score of 11-6, while the North Korean team was a little nervous and made frequent mistakes in the first game.
However, the North Korean team's mentality was not affected when they lost the first game, but slowly entered the state and fought back bloodlessly to win the second game.
In fact, the North Korean team also caused us a lot of trouble, and even Ni Xialian couldn't help but praise the North Korean team for playing very well.
However, China, which has the heritage of "national ball", is still slightly better, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, two post-00s young players, carry the honor of the country on their shoulders.
I really want to give a thumbs up to our Chinese post-00s.
I don't know if you have found out, this Paris Olympics, except for Yang Hao, the only one who won the championship for our China, was in 1998 (close to the post-00s)
The rest are all post-00s, and even Huang Yuting of the shooting team is still a 17-year-old teenager in 2006.
has been able to win glory for the country, it's really amazing, do we want to sigh that the years are like a shuttle, or do we sigh that the blue is better than the blue?
At this moment, as a spectator looking at athletes younger than themselves, there are probably some complicated emotions.
However, let's not be discouraged, isn't the 61-year-old Ni Xialian still fighting on the table tennis court?
She still made it past the first round and came to the second round, and she couldn't believe it.
Age is never a problem, 61-year-old Ni Xialian has lived out herself, lived a wonderful life of her own, praise Ni Xialian!
Source: Ni Xialian Weibo