In the women's singles event of table tennis at the Paris Olympics on August 3, Beijing time, Chinese women's table tennis player Chen Meng defeated another Chinese player, Sun Yingsha, and won the precious women's singles gold medal. Chen Meng won the gold medal and showed her strong strength, and even her opponent Sun Yingsha admired her very much. It can be said that Chen Meng deserves this gold medal. However, from the beginning of the game, to the end, and to today, some discordant voices have affected the perception of the game.
These discords actually come from the so-called table tennis "fan circle culture". In the gold medal match between Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, a large number of Sun Yingsha's fans poured into the competition venue. And when Chen Meng scored, there were few shouts on the scene. Even some foreigners are strange: aren't these two athletes both Chinese? Why is the treatment so bad?
What's more, according to some on-site photos and screenshots turned out by netizens, there are extreme "fans" who give Chen Meng the middle finger after his victory, and his personal quality and behavior are infuriating. These so-called "rice circles" have made national table tennis lose face in front of foreigners, and it has also brought shame to the sport of table tennis. For Chen Meng, although she used a gold medal to fight back against those off-court noises, her heart must be very sad.
How terrible the impact of the fan circle is, it can be seen from the words of former women's table tennis world champion Li Xiaoxia. Li Xiaoxia revealed in the program that after Chen Meng won the championship in the Tokyo Olympics, due to the low voice and pressure from all sides, her performance was unstable, but fortunately, Chen Meng finally adjusted herself to get the singles quota for the Paris Olympics, and she has matured a lot in the past three years.
Li Xiaoxia said: "Chen Mengcong finished the Tokyo Olympics, in fact, she suffered a lot psychologically, because in the current era of self-media, because she may have finished the Tokyo Olympics at that time, and then I think (also to withstand the voices and pressures of all sides), she was also a little sluggish for a while, in fact, her emotions, some emotions psychologically will cause her to play technically and tactically not very stable, so she may not be able to compete in this singles competition for a while." ”
And Chen Meng herself, although she is used to seeing the big right and wrong, however, in the current public opinion environment, she also expressed her thoughts. Chen Meng said in an interview with the media after winning the gold: "It's the same for myself. Especially for my own age, when I play today's final, I will cherish the Olympic stage even more, because I don't know if I will have the opportunity to have such a stage in the future. So I'm still very happy to be able to show the strength of the Chinese team in the final. ”
The sentence "I don't know if there will be such a stage and opportunity in the future" expresses the sadness of the veteran, and more or less reflects some helplessness in her heart. Perhaps after these disgusting noises, Chen Meng would also have considered the end. It's just that for the fans who really support and like her, they must hope that she will continue to go. Four years later, in Los Angeles, we are still looking forward to meeting Chen Meng, and we are more willing to see her achieve three consecutive Olympic championships!