At the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan, when the table tennis match entered the women's singles final, the eyes of countless Chinese people were focused on the Chinese table tennis star Deng Yaping. Almost no one thought that Deng Yaping would lose the game. However, things

At the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan, when the table tennis match entered the women's singles final, the eyes of countless Chinese people were focused on the Chinese table tennis star Deng Yaping. Almost no one thought that Deng Yaping would lose the game. However, things went against expectations. In the end, Deng Yaping lost to the Japanese team's Chili Koyama with a score of 1 to 3.

But what surprised everyone was that this Japanese player had a Chinese face. Xiaoshan Zhili was once a member of the Chinese women's table tennis team . However, when she competed with Deng Yaping that year, she kept shouting "Yo Xi" during the game, and even shouted like a winner after the game. He said: "I won the Asian Games championship for the Japanese team. I am very proud." Such confusing remarks made many people feel puzzled and angry. What happened to make Chili Koyama, who was originally Chinese, say these words?

Xiaoshan Zhili's original name is He Zhili , from Shanghai, China. She was born in an ordinary family in 1964. At that time, no one thought that she would have such a big influence in the table tennis circles of China and Japan. He Zhili, who has been practicing table tennis since she was 7 years old, successfully passed the selection of the national team and officially became a member of the Chinese women's table tennis team after being associated with the sport for ten years. A year later, 18-year-old He Zhili won the women's singles championship in the national competition and became a rare seed player in the Chinese table tennis world.

In this way, He Zhili overcame all obstacles in international competitions and won many honors such as the Asian Championship and the World Championship Team Championship. The most important thing in He Zhili's mind at that time, who had a straightforward personality, was to win the championship in basketball. She was also working hard towards this goal, but what she didn't expect was that the road to success would be so bumpy.

At that time, there was a trend of "giving the ball" in the team, but in He Zhili's view, this was an unhealthy trend. She believed in playing with true ability and didn't care much about it. It wasn't until she experienced this kind of thing herself in 1987 that she realized how much it affected her. The 39th World Table Tennis Championships was held in New Delhi in 1987. He Zhili went with the Chinese table tennis team. They were bound to win the gold medal. He Zhili also felt that she was one step closer to her dream of being a world champion.

That year, He Zhili made it to the semi-finals. Later, in the semi-finals of the women's singles, He Zhili's opponent was her friend and teammate Guan Jianhua, and another player of the national table tennis team Dai Lili faced the Korean player Liang Yingzi . Considering how to ensure a smooth championship, the coaching staff made a decision to let He Zhili give the ball to Guan Jianhua during the game so that the more powerful Guan Jianhua would have a greater chance of winning in the final.

He Zhili, who strongly disagreed with "handicap", was surprised by this. Although she agreed to the request on the surface, she was still unconvinced in her heart. At that time, He Zhili's coach was Sun Meiying . Like He Zhili, she also hated this trend, so she said to He Zhili, "It doesn't matter. You just need to exert your strongest strength and strive to win the championship. Don't worry about the rest." That's it. With the support of her coach, He Zhili performed bravely in the confrontation with Guan Jianhua, sweeping Guan Jianhua 3-0 and successfully entering the final. In the final, South Korean player Yang Yingzi also became her defeat. He Zhili finally fulfilled her dream of being a "world champion".

"Disobeying orders" requires consequences. Although he successfully won the women's singles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships , He Zhili wrote a review after returning to China because she did not obey the coaching staff's arrangements. Later, as the world's number one, she was not even selected for the 1988 Seoul Olympics entry list. The external explanation at the time was that He Zhili's performance in foreign wars was not outstanding, so she was not allowed to participate in the Olympics after comprehensive considerations. But many people are speculating that perhaps it was because of the handicap incident a year ago that He Zhili lost the chance to play in the Olympics.

He Zhili felt resentful and felt that she had been treated unfairly. The year after the Seoul Olympics, He Zhili announced her retirement. Soon after, He Zhili went to Japan and changed her nationality to Japanese, and her name was changed from He Zhili to Xiaoshan Zhili. Chili Koyama, who settled in Japan, quickly completed a major event in her life and married Hideyuki Koyama, the son of the president of the Osaka Japan-China Friendship Association. The union of the two is also regarded as a symbol of "Sino-Japanese friendship."

Although she has started a family of her own, Chili Koyama is still concerned about table tennis, so she chose to come back and join the Japanese table tennis team. Chili Koyama returned to the table tennis world with a new identity and name, which aroused heated discussions among many domestic fans. Then at the 1994 Asian Games, she unexpectedly defeated Deng Yaping and shouted "Yo Xi" many times on the court, causing many people to call her a "traitor". But Chili Koyama paid no attention to the comments from the outside world. She only focused on playing and made a lot of contributions to the Japanese table tennis world. Even The Emperor of Japan praised her skills and liked watching her play very much, and she became a At that time, the Japanese team was truly the core player.

The marriage life of Chili Koyama and Hideyuki Koyama was not a happy one. A few years after their marriage, the then table tennis coach Hideyuki Koyama was exposed to the scandal of cheating on a female athlete. Faced with her husband's infidelity, Xiaoshan Zhili decisively chose to divorce. The two did not have children. After the divorce, Chili Koyama chose to live alone and never thought about finding a Japanese to marry again.

Later, due to various reasons, Koyama Chili retired again and transformed into a coach. In 2005, she received an invitation to return to her motherland to participate in table tennis exchange activities. In the interview, Chili Koyama said that she also regretted her decision at that time, saying that it would be better if she was not so impulsive. However, whether it was a mistake or a regret, today Chili Koyama has another identity. Time has passed, everything that happened back then has become a thing of the past, and Xiaoshan Zhili should also have a new life of her own.