Suddenly remembered a sports past.

The Beijing Winter Paralympics finally came to an end. This means that the entire Beijing Winter Olympics cycle is over.

When the once lively stage curtain slowly falls, the bright lights gradually go out, and work and life return to the normal rhythm, are people who have worked hard for the Qian Qian Winter Olympics and Paralympics for several years relieved or vaguely lost and sad?

I think maybe this experience, both. After all, many people can't spend the Spring Festival with their families for the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Watching the flame of the Beijing Paralympic Games fade out, watching the Ukrainian delegation finally put Yu Yajun on the gold medal list under the war, and thinking about Russian and Belarusian athletes who came to Beijing but were banned, you may suddenly feel with emotion. Sports, what is it?

At this moment, I suddenly remembered a sports event four years ago.

It was May 3rd, 20 18. At that time, there was a sports news from the 20 18 World Table Tennis Championships in Sweden, which was not too big, but it definitely attracted the attention of the whole world: the Korean women's team and the North Korean women's team, who were about to participate in the 1/4 finals, suddenly announced the merger and formation of the "Korean-Korean United Team" before the game, and the two sides changed from their original opponents to teammates, and they surrendered without a fight and joined hands.

At first, people who heard the news were a little confused, but they soon understood that this was not an international joke.

It is reported that ITTF, North Korea and South Korea reached an agreement under the proposal of Thomas Victor, president of the International Table Tennis Federation, so the three parties hit it off: no more fighting, no more opponents, no more teammates. Otherwise, whether the North Korean team plays the South Korean team or the South Korean team plays the North Korean team, it is a bit inappropriate and embarrassing to outsiders.

For such a result, I believe that both the international community and the international sports world, especially politicians, will basically nod and smile and say "I am very pleased" again and again.

Presumably, President ITTF was so excited that he couldn't sleep the night before, secretly pleased with his wonderful work, and repeated it over and over again: You see, during my term of office, it actually contributed to such a great event. This is a repeat of history 27 years ago and will surely go down in history.

Indeed, it did happen once in history, 27 years ago. That's 199 1 Japan Chiba World Table Tennis Championships. At that time, two women's table tennis teams, North Korea and South Korea, formed the Korea-DPRK United Team, and reached the final all the way, encountering a powerful China team.

At that time, China women's table tennis team included Deng Yaping, Qiao Hong, Jun Gao and Chen. Prior to this, China women's table tennis team had won the women's team championship trophy of the world table tennis team for eight consecutive times, achieving the great cause of "eight consecutive championships".

However, Deng Yaping at that time had not cultivated to the highest level, nor did he realize the loneliness without rivals. It was in Chiba that the Korean-Korean United team defeated China 3-2, crushing China's dream of "nine consecutive championships".

In that final, Yu Shunfu of the first Korean-Korean United team defeated Deng Yaping by 2:/kloc-0, which can be said to have laid the final result! Then, Xuan Zhenhua beat Jun Gao 2-0. In the third doubles match, Deng Yaping and Gao Jun defeated Xuan Zhenhua and Li together. In the fourth singles, Deng Yaping defeated Xuan Zhenhua 2-0 again. However, in the fifth singles match, Yu Shunfu made another effort to beat Jun Gao by only four points with two advantages of 2 1: 19, helping the Korean-Korean United team snatch the women's team championship trophy from China.

This incident is still fresh in the minds of senior fans in China. 265,438+0 years later, in 2065,438+02, Koreans took this incident as a script and made a film called Korean Dream Team, starring Ha Ji Won, Bae Doo Na, Cheol-min Park, Lee Jong Suk and others.

Stop here. History is a thing of the past, and anyone can comment. Unexpectedly, 27 years later, 20 18, history is so paradoxical. This scene in Sweden is almost a "remake" of Chiba.

Of course, it doesn't matter whether the Korean-Korean United can reach the final or win the championship this time. What all parties are happy to see is that the two teams of the DPRK and the ROK merge into one team, which is enough. If the China team is really beautiful in the end and the Korean-Korean United team really wins the championship, it will only be icing on the cake. Of course, this was my fantasy at that time.

However, among all the happiness, has anyone thought about sports itself?

Take the sudden announcement that the DPRK and the ROK will form a United team to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships. In President ITTF's view, this must be a good copy. But I have always believed that the sudden announcement of the merger of Korean and Korean women's table tennis was not a whim at all. It must have been since the grouping situation of this World Table Tennis Championships was determined that ITTF had such a plan-what should be done once North Korea and South Korea meet in the knockout round?

Judging from the Korean and Korean women's table tennis, it is even less likely to be a whim. Imagine, without the consent of the top decision makers of the DPRK and the ROK, who can make such a major decision for the two teams and who dares to make such a major decision?

Then the question comes: what is the exercise in happiness?

Don't talk big. Take the game itself as an example. On this side of the World Table Tennis Championships, Korean and Korean players took a happy group photo and advanced to the semi-finals without competition. On the other hand, Japan and Ukraine are fighting to the death for a place in the semi-finals. Is this really good? Is this in line with the spirit of fair competition in sports?

If sports lose its "initial heart", it will lose hundreds of millions of fans around the world who are obsessed with it.

Just like this World Table Tennis Championships. You unite with yours, but as a table tennis fan, I have the right to choose not to watch it.

Indeed, sports is a very good means of peace, friendship and communication, but it also has its own laws. If we lose professionalism and become dough kneaded by everyone, then sports will lose its inherent charm.

Every sportsman should know that if sports lose their "initial heart" and are deprived of their essence, then sports can only leave a lifeless body.