China News Service, Hong Kong, August 13th. Title: Interview with Hong Kong Table Tennis East Olympics Women's Team Bronze Medalist Du Kaiqin: Growth is not overnight
China News Agency reporter Han Xingtong
During the interview, Hong Kong, China, table tennis player Du Kaiyan just woke up and appeared in front of the camera.
I took a picture of myself with the camera again, and decided to blow my a little sleepy hair first.
In the past few days after returning from Tokyo to Hong Kong in hotel isolation, what Du Kaiyan did the most was to sleep. In an interview with a reporter from China News Service through a video connection on the 12th, she said that during the Tokyo Olympics, she was so nervous that she could only fall asleep three times a day. Four hours.
Maybe it was because she was full of sleep, her whole body state was obviously different from the tightness on the field, she relaxed, talking and laughing.
"I want to win an Olympic medal." Du Kaiyan has been talking about this since she officially became a professional table tennis player when she was 18 years old. After all, she believed in her heart that she couldn't get it, after all, Hong Kong The women's table tennis team has not won an Olympic medal in history.
But the surprise came quickly.
Du Kaiyan and his teammates Li Haoqing and Su Huiyin defeated their opponents in the women's team table tennis competition at the Tokyo Olympics and successfully won a bronze medal for the Hong Kong team of China.
On-court coach Li Jing was so excited to tear off the mask to hug the players. Du Kaixuan was "stunned", "It's a bit unbelievable, did we really win?" And this "stunned" state continued until the award ceremony. , Until his teammate put on a bronze medal for her, the native Hong Kong teenager grinned.
"This time I played very well overall, I will give myself 80 points." The ball is round, with half of the mentality and technique. The coach's remarks are especially applicable to Du Kaixian. "I am the kind who will give myself a lot. People under pressure pursue perfection, but don't have enough ability." So she is often used to directly revealing her unhappiness on the court. She loses her temper and throws off the racket and turns away, making the coaches confused.
The most classic is the 2014 World Junior Table Tennis Championships. She lost in a singles team match and rushed off the court in a rage, jumping into the pool and crying.
This incident has now been spread. Du Kaiyan laughed and said that it was difficult to save his respect.
After seven years of training, Du Kaixian's mentality has improved.
Before playing the team competition in this Olympics, she experienced mixed doubles and singles losses, but regrettably stopped in the quarter-finals.
The former hit particularly hard, because this was the focus of the previous training of the Hong Kong team of China, and it was also her focus.
Du Kaiyan still cried. After crying for two or three hours, coach Zhang Rui came to her and said: "I don't ask you to take a medal. I only want you to do your best and not let yourself regret it in the future." Just for this sentence, Du Kaiyan cheered up, stood up again, and stood on the podium at this stop.
After the award ceremony, a group photo of the Chinese National Table Tennis Team and the Hong Kong Team of China sparked heated discussions on the Internet. People called it the "Victory Meeting".
Du Kaixian told the story behind the group photo: After receiving the award, they watched the national team taking a group photo. "We really wanted to take a photo with the national team, but the mobile phone was taken away when we received the award." At this time, China Ping Ping. Association Chairman Liu Guoliang took the initiative to invite them, "We were very excited and rushed over immediately."
Du Kaixian is no stranger to the Chinese table tennis team.
Before the Tokyo Olympics, she followed the national team for 9 months of training, and sometimes Liu Guoliang would come to guide one or two.
She is very close to all the team members and regards Ma Long as an idol.
"It should be said that every member of the national team is my idol and is worthy of worship." The three-quarter training every day ends at 9 pm. When she is exhausted and packs up her things and leaves, she can always see Chen Meng, Liu Shiwen, Sun Yingsha, etc. The "famous generals" of the world are still consciously training.
A week later, Du Kaixian still remembered many details of the night that won the prize. There was no special celebration. She and her teammates wandered around the Olympic Village, but they were happy to walk aimlessly.
They went to the Olympic merchandise sales point to buy some gifts and went to the photo studio to take a set of photos as a souvenir.
Du Kaixian likes to play table tennis, it is from the heart, even by nature.
When she was 6 years old, she was sent by her mother to learn how to dance and sit at the door of the classroom and cried.
At that time, no one would have thought that the crying "Adu" turned out to be a "smart soldier" and would have a miracle day.
In the future, Du Kaixin still has a long way to go.
She began to think about the responsibility of the team’s inheritance, "In the past, many players from the mainland helped the Hong Kong team play, and they led us to grow up. I hope that I can also become a role model and lead young athletes younger than me." (End)