What's wrong with the Chinese national table tennis team? What a great question!

In this post, Brother Di is going to "step out of his lane" again.

I've been following the trending topic: #What'sWrongWithChinaTableTennis#

The controversy from the WTT Yokohama Champions has erupted, and I can totally understand the feeling of helplessness and speechlessness from the trending searches.

At this event, the Chinese team's Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Lin Shidong all took a rest.

As a result, the host nation's siblings Tomokazu Harimoto and Miwa Harimoto directly took both the men's singles and women's singles gold medals.

All four Chinese men's singles players stopped at the round of 16, and in women's singles, only Chen Xingtong fought to the final and got a silver medal, ending the event with zero gold.

That's the situation.

There's no need to equate the result of a commercial tour stop with the decline or generational gap of the Chinese team, and completely deny the development pipeline. Nor should we attack young players; a single match's win or loss shouldn't subject them to nationwide judgment.

However, in the world of competitive sports, there's one phrase I've always hated: "They should make way for XXX!"

For the new generation to rise, the right way is always to seize the position with strength, not to wait for the seniors to voluntarily step down and hand over the opportunity.

Looking back at the Paris cycle, this phrase was thrown at Chen Meng countless times.

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In response to this topic, what I want to express more is:

1. The opponents becoming stronger is an objective fact.

These two Japanese players are very young and will be the main competitors for the Chinese team on both fronts for many years to come.

2. Looking back over the past few years, what has truly been draining the Chinese team is not entirely the progress of foreign opponents, but the endless internal friction from domestic public opinion.

If you watched the Paris Olympics, you would understand that today's situation is not surprising at all.

If the results were good, that would be the real surprise...

When Chen Meng won her title defense, what came from the venue was not cheers but boos, as if the gold medal was won by a foreigner, not a Chinese athlete representing her country.

As an ordinary spectator, this is probably a moment I will never forget in my lifetime.

Winning is called stealing opportunities, losing is called needing to make way.

Even when standing on the highest Olympic podium again, they still don't receive the respect that champions deserve...

Fan Zhendong, bearing all the pressure in men's singles, narrowly escaped time and again to achieve a super Grand Slam, but the camera didn't capture much ecstasy of fulfilling his dream, only deep exhaustion.

Xiao Pang once said a very piercing sentence: Sometimes losing is not okay, but winning doesn't seem to be that great either...

In this regard, Chinese basketball is fortunate.

Although many times we also can't help but criticize, at least we are united against external opponents...

A defending Olympic women's singles champion and a player who achieved a super Grand Slam, moments that should have been universally praised, instead had to endure a lot of malice that should not belong to competitive sports.

Two people, on the same day, chose to withdraw from the world rankings.

It's not that they can no longer play...

So, the reality more lamentable than the opponents' strength is: our own Olympic champions, fighting through injuries to stand on the podium, still have to endure boos and criticism from their compatriots.

Many friends are anxiously watching the results from the Yokohama event.

But in the end, I want to say: Yokohama is just a warning.

The real storm will definitely be in 2028; that is a tough battle that must be taken seriously.

If we win, maybe everything will be fine.

If we lose, many people's fates will be rewritten.

The wind continues to blow.