012 London Olympics men's singles third place!
2014 and 2015 World Badminton Championships won two consecutive championships!
2016 Rio Olympics men's singles champion!
020 Tokyo Olympics men's singles runner-up!
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It can be said that within the entire BWF, Chen Long 's score is second only to Lin Dan , but why has Chen Long been criticized for so many years?
1989 Chen Long was born in a sports family in Jingzhou, Hubei!
Chen Long's parents were basketball players in Wuhan Military Region . After retiring, his father Chen Hua worked in Jingzhou Education and Sports Bureau, and his mother Zhang Yuxia worked in the Rural Commercial Bank of Shashi District.
Because his mother has a serious job, Chen Long's childhood life was very happy. At the same time, he also inherited his parents' excellent sports genes. He had grown to 1.38 meters at the age of 6.
Seeing that his son's height has grown so fast, Chen Long's parents also had the idea of letting his son engage in the unfinished sports career of the two.
Because Chen Hua and his wife are both basketball players, they naturally came into contact with basketball at the beginning, but Jingzhou has always been called "China's Badminton Hometown".
In 1995, when Ding Qihong, the badminton coach of Shashi District Sports School, went to the kindergarten where Chen Long was located to select seedlings, he took a fancy to Chen Long, who was one head higher than his peers.
Because most of the children around him choose badminton to practice sports, Chen Long has long been interested in badminton, and his parents naturally know that badminton training in Jingzhou can be well trained.
So, in the end, Chen Long practiced badminton with coach Ding Qihong. Shashi District Sports School is an amateur sports school. Chen Long went to the school in the morning to learn cultural knowledge and then went to Shashi District Sports School for training in the afternoon.
The school where Chen Long is located is more than 20 kilometers away from the sports school. Every afternoon after school, Chen Long's mother Zhang Yuxia rushed to the school to pick up her son early, and then took her son from school to the sports school with a bicycle.
When the training was over, Zhang Yuxia rushed from the unit to the sports school, and then Chen Long went home together. She was an athlete. She felt that Chen Long's 3 hours of exercise in a day was not enough, so after dinner, she took her son to the training hall for two more hours.
With such a large amount of training, Chen Long's hands were often worn out because they held the racket for a long time. His mother Zhang Yuxia wrapped a few layers of gauze on his hands, allowing Chen Long to continue training.
Generally, you need to rest after training for a period of time. Zhang Yuxia gave her son a rest time of 10 to 15 minutes. Chen Long must immediately enter the training state when the time comes.
There is a certain reason why Zhang Yuxia is so strict with Chen Long, because Zhang Yuxia and her husband Chen Hua are both only children, and there is only one son of Chen Long.
Their family is a typical Chinese "421 family". Such a family is destined to be loved by Chen Long, especially the elderly on both sides are very spoiled for this only grandson\nation.
This has developed Chen Long's relatively weak personality and even cried when encountering difficulties. Zhang Yuxia, an athlete and a soldier, used this method to transform Chen Long.
In addition, in 1999, Chen Long's coach Ding Qihong once told Zhang Yuxia that Chen Long was always impatient in training and always made excuses for himself to be lazy and not want to train.
In response to this, Zhang Yuxia thought of a solution. She let her son stand naked in the scorching sun for an hour under the high temperature of 38 degrees noon.
Chen Long's sweat was directly poured into his mouth. He looked at his mother pitifully, wanting his mother to forgive him and at least give him a glass of water.
"It hurts to my son's body, but it hurts to my mother's heart." In fact, Zhang Yuxia felt very uncomfortable, but she knew that if her son wanted to climb the peak, she had to develop a good habit.
Zhang Yuxia was able to make up her mind, but her father Chen Hua looked at her son but was not cruel. He shouted to his wife, "Did you see that your son is almost in heatstroke? How could you have such a cruel mother?"
said that Chen Hua was going downstairs to pull his son. Zhang Yuxia looked at him directly and said, "If you go down, I won't care about your son in the future, you will be alone."
When Chen Hua saw his wife angry, he could only sulk on the side. When he saw her husband like this, Zhang Yuxia immediately cried and said to him: "I am a woman, softer than you. I don't feel sorry for my son like this, but we are both athletes and know how difficult this road is. If we don't treat him more ruthlessly at this time, how can he become a talent in the future?"
It was under the cruel education of his mother that Chen Long's skills steadily improved and he soon stood out from the Shashi District Sports School.
In 2000, Fujian Xiamen Sports School came to Shashi District Sports School to select team members, and Chen Long, who performed well, was selected.
At this time, there is a problem in front of Chen Long, that is, Jingzhou is nearly 1,200 kilometers away from Xiamen . Chen Long, who is less than 12 years old, does not want to go so far alone, but for his future, his parents and coach support him.
So, before getting on the bus, Chen Long stuffed his ticket into his hat and lied that he had lost his ticket, which made Zhang Yuxia and his wife and the coach very anxious.
Just as everyone was anxious to find a ticket, Zhang Yuxia suddenly found that Chen Long had been covering her hat. Zhang Yuxia, who was suspicious, took off her son's hat and the train ticket fell out.
This time, Zhang Yuxia did not blame her son. Instead, she squatted on the ground and cried. At this time, her husband Chen Hua came to comfort her: "Now I'm more cruel to my son. When he grows up, he will slowly understand us."
Xiamen Sports School implements semi-military management, and there are very strict requirements for both training and work and rest. Chen Long called his parents every few days as soon as he arrived at the Sports School.
Every time Chen Long calls, he yells to go home. At this time, Zhang Yuxia will criticize her son severely. Gradually, Chen Long seems to have adapted to his life in Xiamen.
But one day in 2003, Zhang Yuxia suddenly received a call from her son to come home from Wuhan. On the phone, Chen Long cried and said that he had been returned by the sports school.
It was the SARS period, and all parts of the country were under close prevention and control. Zhang Yuxia and his wife were worried about what to do if their son was infected. They hurried to Wuhan and took their son home first.
After they came back, they went to the hospital to do a checkup for their son. When they saw that the results showed that everything was normal, they felt relieved. However, when they returned home at night, they thought that their son was returned by the sports school, so they tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
Early the next morning, Zhang Yuxia called Lin Jiangli, the coach of her son at Xiamen Sports School, to ask why Chen Long was returned by the Sports School.
Lin Jiangli told Zhang Yuxia that a group of small team members had arrived at the Sports School at that time. Chen Long relied on his old team member not to train well, which made him very angry. So he fired Chen Long like a "killing chicken to warn monkeys". Chen Long was also very tough and left that afternoon.
Hearing this, Zhang Yuxia quickly asked Chen Long to apologize to Coach Lin. Lin Jiangli also admired Chen Long very much, so she said that Chen Long would reflect at home and go back to the sports school.
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Yuxia couldn't control her anger. She formulated a very strict training plan for Chen Long, and got up to train before dawn, and continued until 9 pm. The training intensity was far greater than Chen Long's training in the sports school.
Chen Long gritted his teeth and persisted for a week, but he couldn't stand it anymore. He even threw the slap in front of his mother, making Zhang Yuxia cry.
Zhang Yuxia cried and said to Chen Long: If you don’t have perseverance in practicing sports, everything will be in vain.
In fact, Chen Long was a little panicked when he saw his mother crying. Later, he heard his mother say some intimate words to him, Chen Long himself couldn't help crying. He also promised his mother that he would definitely train well in the future.
In 2006, Chen Long, who was less than 16 years old, was selected for the national youth team. It was also in this year that Jiangsu girl Wang Shixian also entered the national badminton youth team.
Wang Shixian is only one year younger than Chen Long. Two of her peers are in the national youth team and soon became good friends. In less than a year, the two were selected for the second national badminton team together.
At that time, Chinese badminton men's singles had many excellent athletes such as Lin Dan, Bao Chunlai , etc. Chen Long, who had just entered the second team, was just an inconspicuous young player.
However, in 2007, Chen Long won the men's singles championship in one fell swoop in the World Youth Badminton Championships, and many fans thought he would become the successor to Lin Dan and other players.
It was also in this year that 18-year-old Chen Long and 17-year-old Wang Shixian started an underground relationship. At that time, the young two had no idea what love was, they only knew that they were happy together.
In this atmosphere, time came to 2011. The 22-year-old Chen Long began to emerge in the international badminton world. This year, he won the men's singles championship three times in the World Badminton Federation Super Series, two of which defeated Malaysian star Lee Chong Wei .
In the finals of the World Badminton Federation Super Series at the end of the year, although Chen Long only won the men's singles runner-up, he also showed his strong strength.
Chen Long's outstanding performance won him an opportunity to participate in the London Olympics. On the other hand, his girlfriend Wang Shixian, because of the sudden emergence of Li Xuerui , eventually failed to participate in the London Olympics.
Chen Long, who participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, successfully won the third place in men's singles at the London Olympics. His results were better than Lin Dan's first Olympic Games ( Athens Olympic Games ).
But at this time, almost everyone's eyes were on Lin Dan. After all, Lin Dan successfully defended his title at London Olympics , becoming the only double-loop Grand Slam in the history of world badminton.
The most important thing is that Chen Long's playing style focuses on defense, while Lin Dan's playing style focuses on offense, so many people subconsciously believe that Chen Long is inferior to Lin Dan.
None of these things affected Chen Long. In 2013, he won the All-English Men's Singles Championship and the Danish Open Men's Singles Championship, but at the World Championships, Chen Long lost to Lin Dan for the sixth consecutive time and missed the semi-finals of the World Championships.
It was also the first time that Chen Long and Wang Shixian's love was exposed in this year. The reason was that they went to Jiuzhaigou with two team members of national badminton , Xu Chen and Pan Pan .
Because Xu Chen and Pan Pan are a couple, Chen Long and Wang Shixian were also very close when taking a photo, which aroused many people's suspicion, but the two have never admitted their relationship.
It was not until 2014 that the British media used "Chen Long's girlfriend" to call Wang Shixian, and their relationship was officially made public.
2014 was also the year when Chen Long broke out. He first won his first World Championship men's singles championship, and then won the men's singles championship in the World BWF Finals for the second time. At the same time, his points also surpassed Lee Chong Wei and reached the first place in the world rankings.
Chen Long defended the men's singles champion of the World Championships in 2015 and continued to show an upward trend. At the same time, Lin Dan began to go downhill due to various reasons such as age.
In fact, when Chen Long won the men's singles championship in the World Championships in 2014, the main player in the national badminton men's singles became Chen Long, but because Lin Dan's previous results were too impressive.
Therefore, it was not until 2016 when Lin Dan lost to Lee Chong Wei in the men's singles semi-finals of the Rio Olympics, and Chen Long defeated Lee Chong Wei in the final, that everyone realized that Chen Long was so strong.
After Rio won the championship, Chen Long couldn't hold back his tears, because he was always the one who was not favored. Even if he reached the final, most fans thought that he was not Lee Chong Wei's opponent, so crying was a celebration and a release.
won the men's singles championship in Rio Olympics without bringing much honor to Chen Long. On the one hand, Lin Dan was in the forefront. Even if Chen Long won the Olympic championship, his performance was still not as good as Lin Dan.
On the other hand, it was also because the national badminton team performed poorly in the Rio Olympics, and there were many scandals. Even the head coach of the national badminton team Li Yongbo directly resigned after the Olympics.
At the same time, Chen Long also had a trough for some time after the Rio Olympics. Fortunately, Chen Long's girlfriend Wang Shixian had retired at this time, so during Chen Long's trough, Wang Shixian had been with Chen Long.
It was also the first time that the two people who had been in love with each other for many years talked about marriage. Chen Long had already identified Wang Shixian and originally planned to get married after the Olympics.
However, Chen Long was not in good condition after the Olympics, so it was not until the end of 2017 that Chen Long proposed to Wang Shixian in Xiamen. At the proposal site, both of them shed tears of excitement. The two got married the marriage certificate the day after the proposal.
After marriage, Wang Shixian entered Beijing Sports University to coach, while Chen Long was preparing for the Tokyo Olympics. At that time, the world men's badminton world, superstars such as Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei entered the end of their careers one after another, and many excellent athletes such as Momota and Anselon also emerged.
Chinese men's singles also appeared young players such as Shi Yuqi and Zhao Junpeng . Chen Long's presence became lower, but Chen Long was still not favored at the Tokyo Olympics and reached the finals.
Although Chen Long failed to defend the men's singles championship in the end, he was still the last support for the national badminton men's singles. In the post-match interview, Chen Long humbly stated that he failed to take over Lin Dan's class, but many netizens also said that Chen Long did not do worse than Lin Dan.
Maybe Chen Long is not as good as Lin Dan in talent, strength and grades, but his sports spirit is not worse than Lin Dan at all, not to mention that he and his wife Wang Shixian have always been as loving as before.
Maybe he can't achieve as dazzling results as Lin Dan, but he has achieved the ultimate in his ability and has become the last "fig leaf" of the national badminton men's singles in the post-Lin Dan era!
