Japanese media suggested canceling table tennis, and Liu reacted strongly. Netizen: Is it?

In recent years, there has been a joke circulating on the Internet: "It is not surprising to win a world championship in table tennis, but it is amazing to win a national championship."

Although this sentence is a mockery of the national table tennis players by domestic fans, it also shows the absolute dominance of the China table tennis team in the world: the second team players from China have the ability to win the world championship, but it is not easy to stand out in China and win the national championship.

Now table tennis has won all the gold medals in three Olympic Games. At the Olympic Games, it is absolutely forbidden to lose a gold medal. There are countless world table tennis champions in China. Zhang Yining, Wang Nan, Malone and Deng Yaping were all absolute overlords at their peak.

At this time, our close neighbor Japan is a little unhappy. Although table tennis is very popular in Japan and table tennis competitions are also very popular, it is difficult for Japan to win a gold medal in the world table tennis competitions. Therefore, some Japanese media began to incite the Olympic Games to cancel the table tennis competition a few years ago. The face of "I can't get it, you can't get it" is disgusting.

Some Japanese media have published the title "The first and last silver medal? The possibility of table tennis disappearing in the Olympic Games, they pointed out in it: Because China's table tennis strength is too strong and the domestic competition is too fierce, many second-tier players from China have left overseas to fight for other countries. Now the international table tennis arena is basically China, and table tennis has become a competition between people in China, which is not conducive to the promotion of table tennis in the world. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to keep table tennis in the Olympic Games.

The Japanese media's view is completely "sour grapes" mentality. China's present table tennis strength is the result of long-term accumulation of several generations of old athletes in China, not that China invented table tennis.

In this regard, Liu Zeng, the head coach of the team, strongly responded to the reporter: "There are more than 100 countries participating in the World Championships alone. Do you think its mass base is still questionable? I don't know if you went to Japan to watch the game, but in Japan, there are tens of thousands of spectators watching the game even if there are no key games in which Japanese players participate. "

Liu's response was simple and rude, hitting the Japanese media directly. Table tennis is widely played in more than 65,438+000 countries in the world, and its mass base is beyond doubt. According to the requirements of the Olympic Games, only one event can be widely carried out among men from 75 countries and women from 40 countries on 3 continents, so as to be fully qualified to enter the Olympic Games.

Although table tennis in China is the best, it cannot be used as an excuse to disqualify from the Olympic Games. If so, American basketball and Russian synchronized swimming have long been disqualified from the Olympic Games.

Looking at it from another angle, China's football strength is not good. Should football really be cancelled from the Olympic Games? Isn't the popularity of domestic football in China not high? A country's competitive strength does not show its love for the project.

So the conspiracy theories of Japanese media are ridiculous. If you have leisure time to worry about this kind of thing, think more about how to improve your domestic competitive level!