A ping-pong wave table, containing the three of them, a heavy past and a light-year-long future.
Li Haoqing, Du Kaiyan, and Su Huiyin, three individuals with very different personalities, walked together because of ping-pong, intertwining segments of collective memories – dreams, smiling faces, applause, tears, and even scars. What outsiders see is invisible to outsiders. There are counts.
"Playing the first (Olympics) is so nervous that the whole person is shaking..." Four months ago, the Tokyo Olympics, not only for Su Huiyin, but for the three of them, the memory is a lifetime.
The talent potential, the three people grasped early in the morning, and they devoted themselves wholeheartedly. Through hard training and a disciplined life attitude, they continued to forge ahead. Twenty years of military training, a big explosion. The three women will mix sweat and tears. The moment of victory, the match The hissing sound on the field and the "drip" sound on the wave table were silent in the heads of many spectators.
The significance of an Olympic medal is both profound and far-reaching.
They hope to become ambassadors and promote table tennis to the community so that more people can fall in love with sports.
One, two, three, adding up to become infinite.
Dare to chase, not afraid of failure, persevere forever, let the potential burst, I am born with talent, everyone is a top three athletes.
Tokyo Raiders
On the day of the visit, Li Haoqing, Du Kaiyan and Su Huiyin brought Olympic bronze medals to take photos.
Just by looking at it, I already feel "heavy".
Tan Zhiyuan, guest host of "Jumping Life" and Executive Director of Corporate Affairs of the Jockey Club, asked about this year's Midsummer game, as if history had reappeared.
Su Huiyin, who participated in the Olympics for the first time, said bluntly: "Usually, the competitions are tense, and the Olympics are a hundred times tense. Because of the epidemic, there is no competition for a year and a half, so it is the Olympics. When I played the first game, my whole body was shocked. ..."
Du Kaiyan, who appeared in the Olympics for the second time, also had a different experience.
"After entering the Olympic Village, I used to exchange pins with other players, but this time I didn't change any of them. I was so nervous that I didn't want to have entertainment outside of the competition."
Fortunately, the "big sister" Li Haoqing was in the battle.
Two months before the Olympics, the Hong Kong team went north to train with the national team. Teammates faced each other day and night. Hao Qing, who played in the World War Three Olympics, passed on Olympic secrets from time to time. "Especially Su Huiyin's first Olympic game, I will share with her more. There is a big difference." However, in her heart, she still bears the pressure of being out of the top 8 in the last two Olympics.
In just over ten days of the Olympics, the three women will feel like riding a roller coaster.
Asked about their sorrows and joys in Eastern Olympics, Adu mentioned the mixed doubles quarterfinals.
"All expectations are placed in the mixed doubles. I really collapsed after being out. I cried for a long time." Fortunately, coach Zhang Rui encouraged him and told him that "Olympics are only once in 4 years. You can't just express your emotions." The battle goes on.
Hao Qing's most memorable is the top 16 women's team against Brazil.
"I played poorly. I never thought I would lose the third singles game. After the match, it was terribly uncomfortable." Aso remembered the regret of losing to Japan in the semifinals.
"I couldn't pass the psychological barrier at all, I couldn't play, and I felt that I was hurting my teammates."
After review and precipitation, they were able to finally let go of their burdens and defeated Germany in the bronze medal match. After the game, they couldn't help but embrace tears, and the moment when their true feelings broke the bank became a classic scene of the Tokyo Olympic Port team.
At the moment of victory in the bronze medal match, the sincere hug became their most precious Olympic memory.
Photo source: International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
Passing the torch
Hong Kong athletes have exploded in the Tokyo Olympics. In addition to their own hard work, they also rely on the support of the last strong shield.
The Jockey Club has allocated more than HK$700 million to the Hong Kong Sports Institute over the years to support various projects including sports infrastructure, coaching training, and career planning for athletes after retirement.
After the Eastern Olympics, the Jockey Club announced that it would allocate 150 million Hong Kong dollars to set up a total of 300 million Hong Kong dollars "Capability Enhancement Fund" with the Hong Kong government in the form of peer-to-peer matching to promote scientific research in elite sports and promote Hong Kong athletes in the next three years. Ability and competitiveness.
The Olympic Midsummer Dream ended, and the three women will start again. The medals added a sense of mission to their ping-pong road.
Su Huiyin encouraged all the young players: "Everyone has different goals, but in the end, they all want to make a good wave. Many people question how many people can win Olympic medals and world championships? But as long as you work hard on things you have enthusiasm for, the effect will not be effective. It will be too bad, and looking back afterwards is also a good life experience."
Du Kaixian said that he would return to his alma mater in elementary school from time to time to share his experience, hoping that he could often fight with grassroots children.
"I have a dream to serve as a bridge to bring table tennis to the community and make this sport more popular."
Half-dream and half-awake
Photo source: Li Haoqing social platform
Adu and Asu coincidentally describe Haoqing as "military division."
Adu said specifically: "Sister Qing is very smart and is responsible for making suggestions. She is like Tai Chi, and she uses softness to control her strength." This senior sister is 28 years old this year. She has the most seniority in the team and is Hong Kong. The first Hong Kong table tennis player to switch to full-time at the age of 15 set a precedent in the Hong Kong table tennis world.
However, this ping-pong dream brought a lot of struggles to Li Haoqing and Li's mother. Between dream and reality, they have a "three-year agreement."
Asked when Haoqing started playing table tennis, she said quietly, "I heard that it was when she was a child that she started playing "Di Di Zai" at the dining table and in the corridor at home." The fact is that she was influenced by her six-year-old brother and came into contact with table tennis. Her elder brother took her to participate in the competition and won the championship, so he signed up for the Youth Program and began to receive formal echelon training from the Hong Kong Table Tennis Association.
The little guy has learned to play piano and dance, and it was all three minutes of heat. Only ping-pong has tried to fall in love with it.
Make a "three-year agreement" with your mother
In 2008, Li Haoqing became Hong Kong's first full-time table tennis player at the age of 15.
She was studying at Diocesan Girls' College at the time, and it was not an easy decision to drop out.
"I said I want to play table tennis full-time, and my family is not too supportive. I am always worried that I will give up my studies. If this path of athletes does not work, there will be no other choice afterwards."
After many struggles, Haoqing finally entered into a "three-year agreement" with her mother. If she fails to achieve results in three years, she will return to school obediently. Moreover, even if she did not go to school in the past three years, she must study by herself and complete the Form 5 examination.
In the end, she got 12 points, passing Chinese, English and Mathematics.
Photo source: Li Haoqing social platform
The three-year agreement eventually became a three-time Olympics. From the past, "I didn't want to play in the Olympics, I just wanted to represent Hong Kong" to become an Olympic medalist.
She has not given up her studies so far, and is studying for an Honours Bachelor of Health Education program at The Education University of Hong Kong with Du Kaixuan. She hopes that besides the medal, she will also use a university diploma to repay her family's trust and support.
Photo source: Du Kaixuan social platform
Du Kaizhen, with short hair, looks cool, but she is a typical person with cold outside and hot inside. She will leave the field crying because she consciously fails to train up to the requirements, making her teammates confused, but among the three of them, she She loves to cry and is the most heart-warming. Su Huiyin revealed a little thing: "The night before the game, Adu must send us a text message to take the initiative to care about what we think." Although Adu laughed, compared to Asu’s 256GB brain, he himself It's just a 64GB mobile phone, but when she is holding a racket to kill the enemy, her fierceness and ball speed are absolutely world-class. No wonder she became the main player of the team in the three events in the Tokyo Olympics.
Like Li Haoqing, Adu, who has just entered the age of 25, attended many interest classes when she was a child, including judo, swimming, piano, and dancing. She eventually fell in love with ping-pong. She never hesitated. She had recognized her goal since she was a child and hit the target with one hit.
"I gave a speech at the graduation ceremony of elementary school. I remember that I said that I would participate in the 2016 Olympics. I reached my goal five years ago. Since I was a child, I have known that the Olympics is the most important competition, just like the Oscars in the film industry."
In trouble "Ping-pong brings me back"
When she was 15 years old and completed the Form 3 course at Hip En Middle School, she decided to drop out and switch to full-time. Her determination and courage won 100% support from her parents.
However, the road to pursuing dreams has always been full of thorns.
Adu once lost the singles match of the top 4 teams in the 2014 World Youth Championship. In anger, he rushed out of the court and jumped into the pool to cry; this time she was out of the top 8 of the Olympic mixed doubles. She cried for two or three hours. But at the time of disappointment, neither she nor the little ball gave up.
"I have chosen ping-pong since I was a child. Somehow, there is a kind of attraction; sometimes when encountering difficulties, I really want to give up, but in the end ping-pong always pulls me back."
Photo source: Du Kaixuan social platform
After the Olympics, Adu attended public events with his mother. Mother Du said, "Do parents support their children's dreams?" That is the most powerful motivation for being a daughter.
In fact, Mama Du also has a dream to witness her daughter's graduation from college. So even if she practiced hard, Adu gritted her teeth and taught university degree courses, and as long as she was in Hong Kong, she would definitely not be lazy.
Photo source: Su Huiyin social platform
The 23-year-old Su Huiyin is the youngest in the "medal lineup". His sweet smile and cheerful personality are enough to melt the people around him.
She has the "256GB brain" that Du Kaixin said. Both teammates said that she is a talented girl, very assertive, and amazing willpower.
Her perseverance has long been felt by the people of Hong Kong from the Olympic bronze medal match.
When playing the ball, her eyes were full of fire, and she would never stop if she didn't win the ball. Even if her teammates were on the battlefield, she would sit on the sidelines and cheer, with a "cheer on" and "good wave", always energetic.
Aso’s "soul of ping-pong" is like being born with it. She comes from a family of ping-pongs and she bluntly said: "I don’t have the memory of not knowing how to play table tennis. I started playing at the age of 3 and a half years ago. I thought Everyone has no memory.” Since his father, Su Junhua, is a ping-pong coach, Su Huiyin started playing on the small children’s table under the guidance of his father since he was a child.
When I was young, my dad asked her what her goals were. She was small and ambitious: "I am the older one to be a world champion!"
"Try it with 1/40 of your life"
When Su Huiyin was a primary school student, she often represented Hong Kong in competitions with her parents. For example, her junior had gone to Osaka to compete in the East Asian Children's Cup.
To become a full-time athlete, it seems logical to Aso. However, it is Xiao Nizi herself who is struggling. She is most dissatisfied with the campus life of Diocesan Girls’ School: "I had chosen my subjects in Secondary Three, so I thought about it for a long time. Reluctant to part with a class of friends, reluctant to part with campus life..." Seeing their daughter hesitate between table tennis and school studies, Father Su and Mother Su made a decisive move. Su Huiyin said, "They gave me a lot of advice, saying that not everyone can exercise. As a career, two years, just use 1/40 of your life to try. If you want to study, you can read it again at the age of 50."
Photo source: Su Huiyin social platform
She bid farewell to the campus after finishing secondary school at the age of 15. She still has her own pursuit of schooling and insists that one day she needs to study her favorite subject in university.
In addition to the waves...
The three women will overcome countless psychological barriers to win Olympic medals.
A racket and a small ball occupies most of Li Haoqing, Du Kaiyan and Su Huiyin's time. If it were not for the epidemic, more than half of the time each year would go out for training and competition.
It is a rare holiday that the three women will have their own Lotte World outside of table tennis.
Su Huiyin is a book lover. She likes to go to the cafe to hold books and enjoy coffee time. "Reading is like a "cooking drama", giving me another world outside of sports." Recently, she is following the psychological book "The Courage to Be" "Disliked", this is also her spiritual chicken soup for the Olympics. "This book is about being a person to recognize yourself, I am me, and don't affect the essence because of other people's evaluation."
There is a tacit understanding between the three of them.
Du Kaiyan is a "singing person", but the first "Drinking Song" is "older" than she just entered 25 years old, such as "Blam You Too Beautiful", "Monica", "The Wind Continues To Blow "Leslie Cheung, Chen Baiqiang, and Anita Mui are all her favorites.
She even taught herself to play the piano, uploading clips of her own playing and singing to social networking sites from time to time.
Although she loves to express her heart with music whether she is happy or not, she definitely does not make her way to the show business circle: "Because I don't have a good face."
Li Haoqing is not like two juniors who "have a hundred feet and many claws". Every time she returns to Hong Kong, she will seize the time to "stay home". Her teammates said that she "loves to go home", but she confessed: "I really have nothing to do. Hobbies, I love hiding at home. I am always away from Hong Kong. I want to spend more time with my family. I especially miss the poodle at home. It is 13 years old. I want to play with it when it is still active."
Postscript:
Fried Stuffed Three Treasures + Shaomai
It is said that sports have a blending effect and can seek common ground while reserving differences.
Three girls with three personalities, but they are surprisingly in harmony, and they are familiar with each other from time to time, just as they used to compare themselves with "Fried and Stuffed Three Treasures," and paired with "Choo!".
Recalling the Olympic bronze medal match, Tan Zhiyuan said with a smile that he was too nervous to watch the live broadcast.
Adu teaches Tan Sheng to fight waves and perform many stunts.
Tan Sheng and Hao Qing teamed up in doubles. They were well-informed and couldn't help but clap and cheer after the match.
The tacit understanding of the three is not only "court-limited", "one hit three" accepted Tan Zhiyuan's interview, neither rushed to answer nor dead air, the positioning coordination was just right.
The optimistic and cheerful Su Huiyin is the most talkative, and most of the answers are the first to answer the questions; Du Kaiyan and Li Haoqing are in charge of the queen, adding that Adu, who is cold outside and hot inside, can't help laughing sometimes. Haoqing glared at her, as if to tell her sister, "Seriously" , The interview is in progress.” At this time, Adu did his best to swallow the "joker" back in his stomach, but after a while, the point of laughter rose again...
Later, when Adu mentioned that Haoqing is smart, and added the characteristic of "Smart people love to be lazy", the big sisters who are used to big scenes are not stunned, and counterattack calmly: "Don't blame you for your hard work!" Xiao Ni The children are generally well-trained.
At the end of the interview, the three female players competed with Tan Sheng and performed some signature stunts, allowing the photographer to take some highlights.
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