Players like Liu Shiwen rarely encounter bans, but what is unbiased is that the suspension happened to Liu Shiwen.
As a national table tennis player who emerged at the same time as Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning have different achievements. Ding Ning is the winner of the table tennis Grand Slam, and Liu Shiwen is the World Cup women’s singles five champion. Both have their own merits, but Liu Shiwen But experienced pain that Ding Ning did not experience: three months banned!
Why was Liu Shiwen suspended?
This matter has to start with the Rio Olympics. At that Olympics, Ding Ning and Li Xiaoxia participated in the Olympic singles event, while Liu Shiwen was the third seed in the team competition.
In that year's Olympics, Ding Ning and Li Xiaoxia fought hard to win seven games, won the championship and achieved the individual table tennis grand slam.
and Liu Shiwen teamed up with Ding Ning and Li Xiaoxia to win the Rio Olympic Games.
Ding Ning was full of spirits to win the championship, but also suffered injuries. In the Women's Table Tennis World Cup that same year, Ding Ning announced his withdrawal early.
Liu Shiwen has a high rate of winning the World Cup, so even if Ding Ning quits and owns Liu Shiwen in the competition alone, there is still a high probability that the title belongs to the national table tennis team.
However, as the World Cup is getting closer, Liu Shiwen suddenly announced her retirement.
Liu Shiwen's retirement eventually led to the World Cup women's singles championship being won by Japanese talented girl Miu Hirano.
Some people think that Miu Hirano’s victory angered the senior leaders of the National Table Tennis team, while some people think it was caused by Liu Shiwen’s temporary withdrawal. The final target was Liu Shiwen, who was then the head coach of the National Table Tennis Women’s Team, announced by Kong Linghui , Liu Shiwen was suspended for negative competition.
Liu Shiwen missed the year-end finals in the same year!
Afterwards, Liu Shiwen had a remorse and introspection, bluntly saying that she felt physically and mentally exhausted after the Olympics. In addition, there were more activities and insufficient training. So when the national table tennis team asked her to participate in the World Cup, she was not fully prepared, so There is resistance inside.
Liu Shiwen made a sincere reflection,This introspection also allowed her to be lifted after being suspended for three months.
At that time, Kong Linghui said: After three months of reflection, Liu Shiwen has been deeply aware of her mistakes and officially lifted the ban from today!
After the release of the ban, Liu Shiwen began to participate in the direct-to-Düsseldorf World Table Tennis Championships team selection match. After three months of suspension, Liu Shiwen did not relax. This time, she went through the World Table Tennis Championships trial. , Not only closed Ding Ning 2:0, but also had an excellent record of 11 victories. While winning the championship, he also got a singles ticket to the Düsseldorf World Table Tennis Championships.
This is the second time that Liu Shiwen has won a ticket to the World Table Tennis Singles event in her career, and it is also the first time that Liu Shiwen has won a ticket to the World Table Tennis Championship with a record of full victory.
I thought Liu Shiwen would be the first singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships this time, but unfortunately, Liu Shiwen failed to enter the finals. The final was a duel between Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling. In the end, Ding Ning defeated Zhu Yuling to complete the defense, thus allowing her own world. The total number of table tennis singles champions rose to three.
Liu Shiwen has been deeply involved in the World Table Tennis Championship singles without a championship curse. Fortunately in 2019, with the help of Ma Lin, she finally won the first World Table Tennis Championship singles championship in her career.
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