Two days ago, I heard that Liu Shiwen quit the women's table tennis competition due to injury, and suddenly felt sad.
And it is the kind of sadness full of regrets and regrets.
Liu Shiwen, 30 years old this year, the Tokyo Olympics is likely to be her last Olympics.
And she is away from the individual Grand Slam, only one Olympic women's singles champion is missing.
After losing to the Japanese team in mixed doubles with Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen cried and apologized to everyone, saying sorry to the team and everyone.
It really hurts to see her crying in the camera.
Like Xu Xin said, she did not give herself a good ending.
In fact, there is no good ending, not only this Olympics, but also her seven-year love with Zhang Jike .
A few days ago, after Liu Shiwen lost the game, Zhang Jike posted a video of the match between him and Mizutani Falcon on Weibo, cheering for Guoping.
Someone in the comment area said: "Your girl was made to cry."
Seeing this sentence, she suddenly broke the defense.
I don’t know how many people remember about Zhang Jike and Liu Shiwen’s "first love".
is enclosed in double quotes because the person has never publicly acknowledged the relationship.
But the clues and the inadvertent love captured are enough to convince people.
The beginning of the story, time goes back to 2004.
That year, 13-year-old Liu Shiwen had just entered the national team and met 16-year-old Zhang Jike.
At that time, Liu Shiwen made rapid progress. She was called "the girl of genius", and soon showed her extraordinary talent.
The unruly Zhang Jike was returned to the provincial team for violating the team rules. He did not return to the national team until November 2006.
Young people are always simple and simple, and the way a teenager prefers one person is that the QQ space is only open to her.
There were not many social platforms at the time, and the interaction between the two was mainly carried out in QQ space.
On December 21, 2007, Zhang Jike published his status in Qzone: Frist Anniversary (first anniversary).
With all the details, everyone guessed that the two were together in December 2016.
Liu Shiwen is nicknamed "Jujube", because when she first joined the national team, her face was red, she was small, and she looked small and exquisite, like a small red date.
But Zhang Jike has always been called Liu Shiwen Xiaozhu, which is his exclusive nickname.
He will encourage Liu Shiwen like a coach:
Xiaozhu hopes that you can have a bigger breakthrough in 2007, no matter which aspect you must strictly demand yourself, you must believe in your own abilities...
will also ask her in QQ space indulgently: "I can eat too much, can I get fatter?"
and Liu Shiwen is annoyed: "Too annoying, I can!"
It looks like two sweet little lovers flirting and cursing.
However, the love between Olympic champions is not like ordinary people. Just consider whether you like it or not.
For the key seedling players, the national table tennis team has an unwritten rule. In order to avoid affecting the results, the players should not fall in love. If
is found, the usual way to deal with it is either to break up or one party to retire.
Strict team rules,Coupled with the opposition of the family, and considering the personal future, the interweaving of various practical problems.
Let Zhang Jike and Liu Shiwen start to split and reconnect since 2008.
During that time, Zhang Jike's message can also tell his mental journey.
"You can only choose for your career...Bless you."
"I miss you after breaking up."
"I won't give up, forever"
"It will be more exciting if you have you."
Until 2010, the Chinese women's team lost 1-3 to the Moscow Team World Table Tennis Championships.
Liu Shiwen encountered a dark period in her career, and learned from the pain. She chose to break up with Zhang Jike and devote herself to her career.
Since then, Liu Shiwen devoted herself to studying technology, and won three consecutive women's table tennis championships in the following years, and ranked first in the world.
At the same time, Zhang Jike only spent 445 days to achieve a personal grand slam, won the World Championships, World Cup and Olympic singles championship, his popularity is getting higher and higher.
In their separate time, the two stood on the highest peaks in the world in their respective fields.
However, after they have matured, they cannot go back to the past after all.
Although it is no longer a lover's relationship, after they separated, they did not let go of each other.
At the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, Liu Shiwen singles final, the commentary mentioned "I don't know if Liu Shiwen's (scandal) ex-boyfriend Zhang Jike will come to see this game?".
It was later discovered that he had really gone, but he was hiding in the background to watch.
2019,Zhengzhou ITTF Tour Finals , Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin played together.
During the game, the two came to the sidelines to communicate with the coach. Zhang Jike, under the stage, wearing a hat, quietly watching Liu Shiwen on the field.
This scene was accidentally captured by a CCTV lens, and everything was clearly stated.
At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin lost their first battle.
I saw this passage:
But later, she lost the championship and also lost him.
His life was unruly, no one could cure him when he was young, and the greatest tenderness in his life was probably given to the girl who was drifting away from him.
felt sour instantly.
Zhang Jike, who is more than ten years old, has exhausted his greatest sincerity and has loved Liu Shiwen for many years.
He is so proud and so invincible, but his eyes are always full of tenderness when he looks at her.
At the Budapest World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Shiwen won the women's singles championship.
After the game, Zhang Jike sent a Weibo to congratulate the Chinese team. The picture is the photo of the champion. This is the first time her personal photo appeared on his Weibo.
And this year, 8 years have passed since they broke up.
In the next two years, Zhang Jike slowly faded out of the national team due to a serious waist injury, and the interaction with Liu Shiwen became less and less.
When we separated that year, Zhang Jike once said: Two parallel lines can never have a happy tomorrow.
Along the way, when two people are in their best condition, they never seem to overlap.
In his early years, Liu Shiwen emerged as a talented girl in the national team, but Zhang Jike was still unknown.
Later, Zhang Jike ushered in the explosive period of his career and won the Grand Slam in the shortest time.Liu Shiwen has entered a personal downturn.
Later, Liu Shiwen recovered, but Zhang Jike's body went from bad to worse.
Once, they kept the same V-shaped hairstyle and used the same couple cups.
Nowadays, the love stories of genius boys and girls are slowly gone, leaving only the audience's inner feelings.
As the saying goes, this situation can be regarded as a recollection, but it was already in a daze at the time.
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