[Text] China's Hong Kong women's table tennis team won the best record of 1 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze in the Tokyo Olympics, including the first Olympic table tennis team medal in the history of Hong Kong table tennis.
A year later, in the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships team competition, the Chinese Hong Kong men's and women's teams made it through the group stage and advanced to the top 16.
Li Jing, the head coach of the Chinese Hong Kong women's table tennis team, is the main force of national table tennis at the same time as Liu Guoliang. He helped the Chinese Hong Kong team win the men's doubles silver medal in table tennis at the Athens Olympics in 2004. This is also the first Olympic medal after Hong Kong's return to the motherland. .
After becoming a coach, Li Jing led the Chinese Hong Kong women's table tennis team to win the team bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, making history again.
During the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships team competition, Li Jing accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency's "East and West Questions". When did the deep love for table tennis from the mainland and Hong Kong originate?
Why "one country, two systems" has become an advantage in the development of table tennis in Hong Kong, etc., talk about the development of table tennis in Hong Kong, China.
[Concurrent] Li Jing, head coach of the Chinese Hong Kong women's table tennis team
In fact, our first world champion, Rong Guotuan, won the first world championship on behalf of China, in the table tennis event. At that time, exchanges (with the mainland) had already begun, but the exchanges at that time were still limited.
After the return in 1997 (year), the entire communication level and level have been improved, directly to the "ceiling".
In particular, our table tennis project, with the mainland national team, the national second team and some provincial and municipal teams, has jointly trained and communicated with the Hong Kong team.
We have learned a lot of actual combat experience from training and competitions, and there are some routines used, which are of great benefit to the players. We also apply these tactics and routines in international competitions, and often can Get points, get medals.
Their success also directly affects the next generation. For example, now there are more people playing table tennis, and more people playing sports, including parents, which are very successful.
The World Table Tennis Championships (team competition) in Chengdu this time gave the world a good message, that is, through the bridge of table tennis, the world can be connected. In fact, sports do not respect national borders.
(He Shaoqing Anyuan Yang Yudi produced some videos of Yang Yudi from WTT)
Responsible editor: [Li Ji]