Another grand slam. How powerful is China table tennis?

On August 2 1 Sunday, the US media reported that, as The New York Times reported this week, at least 44 table tennis players were born in China at the Rio Olympic Games, but only 6 players played for China.

The American business insider website published an article on August 8/kloc-0, saying that at the 20 16 Summer Olympic Games, China won all four gold medals in table tennis, which means that China has won 28 of the 32 gold medals since 1988 was included in the Olympic Games. Why does China play table tennis so well? The answer is actually very simple. There are many more table tennis players in China than in other countries.

The article said that when you think of China's unparalleled huge population of 654.38+0.4 billion, and the extreme popularity of this sport in that country, it is very clear.

At least since 1950s, China has been enthusiastic about table tennis, which is regarded as the "national sport". This makes sense-table tennis is a cheap sport that doesn't need much space, and it is not particularly popular in the west.

It is said that almost every park in China now has table tennis tables, and almost all schools have regular table tennis teams. Table tennis champions are very famous.

Mark Luo wrote on the Q&A website, "China has a joke. Never say that you are good at table tennis, because you don't know if any friends have retired from the provincial team. "

It is reported that 654.38+00 million people in China often participate in table tennis competitions, and 300 million people occasionally play table tennis. Although we don't have data from other countries, we can think that no country will be close to this data.

According to the article, table tennis seems to be a sport with little physical relevance-for example, compared with basketball and sprint-which means that the more athletes you can participate in, the more likely you are to reach a high level.

According to the article, China has an extremely intensive training program. China began to recruit talented table tennis children from a very young age and spared no effort to make them successful.

Former professional table tennis player Cheng can confirm this. As Larry hodges wrote in an article of the American Table Tennis Association, Cheng was tested to have a talent for racket sports at the age of five, so he was selected to a professional sports school. This article also mentioned:

-The selection of China table tennis national team is very cruel, and we are committed to whether the athletes have the potential to win medals now or in the future, instead of blindly including all the top athletes in the compilation at a specific time.

-China table tennis players train at least 7 hours a day. Top athletes have special training partners, sometimes even a pair of two-this is not seen in most teams.

-China Table Tennis Team is a developer of new table tennis techniques, with extensive global game tactical analysis capabilities.

Of course, China has well-known intensive training programs in many sports, the article said. The reason why these plans are so effective lies in the huge base of excellent athletes.