As the host of the Tokyo Olympics, Japan successfully won 27 golds, 14 silvers and 17 bronzes. Not only did it win the most medals in history, the mixed doubles team composed of Mizutani Hayabusa and Ito Mima even won the top table tennis title. Team China won the gold medal. The Japanese media analyzed the reasons why Japan was able to achieve outstanding results in the Eastern Olympics, which covered aspects such as funding, intelligence collection, and professional training. This is because of these interlocking factors, which allowed Japan to compete in Violation 57 In the Olympic Games that were re-hosted in 2008, they achieved an unprecedented perfect record.
According to an analysis report by "Sports Japan", the Japanese Olympic Committee had set a goal of 30 gold medals before the opening of the Eastern Olympics. Now that the Eastern Olympics has successfully concluded, although the Japanese team did not meet the original expectations, it still achieved a record of good results in history. , not only broke the record and won 27 gold medals, but also won 14 silvers and 17 bronzes. The total number of medals of 58 directly exceeded the previous results.
To strengthen the strength of the national team, funding is an extremely important part. To this end, the Japan Table Tennis Association’s Strengthening Department Director Miyazaki Yoshihito invested a lot of energy, actively lobbied the Japanese government, obtained subsidies, and invested funds that were almost originally needed. Elite Academy closed down and hired Chinese as sparring partners to train players. The Elite Academy has also successfully cultivated billiards players such as Miu Hirano and Tomokazu Harimoto.
Not only that, since 2017, the world's largest four-person intelligence collection team has been established to analyze videos taken in more than 30,000 international events, and re-edit and classify based on the needs of players and coaches to create data library, allowing players and coaches to directly search for videos that are useful to them in the database. It is reported that the women's team coach Mika Baba used this system to successfully help the Japanese table tennis women's team win a silver medal in this Olympics.
On the other hand, men’s table tennis only hired professional coaches for the first time in 2010. Before that, the men’s table tennis team did not even have a systematic warm-up concept. Except for Mizutani Hayabusa, who had studied in Germany, he paid attention to muscle training. There is no in-depth exploration. Now the national team has formulated a special training schedule for the players and sends relevant data to the person in charge every day. Shutani Mizutani, who won the gold medal in the mixed doubles event, said bluntly that when the Japanese team participated in the World Championships in 2005, the men's table tennis team was very weak and set the worst record. Now that there is a national training center, professional training can finally be carried out. Let the players step onto the international stage.
