Lin Dan and Li Zongwei respectively created legends in the badminton world, Lin Dan as the "second thousand-year-old", and Li Zongwei is also remembered. Whenever these two players are mentioned.
is always accompanied by a sad emotion of "both Yu and He Shengliang", but 36-year-old Li Zongwei announced his retirement due to cancer, and Lin Dan also expressed deep regret! . They are evenly matched on the pitch but are brothers and sisters off the pitch.
10 million extended Li Zongwei's life, but it also completely deprived him of his dreams and left a lifelong regret. Children born into poor families become the breadwinners of their families. 1999 year.
The 17-year-old Lee Chong Wei competed in the Malaysian National Championships but unexpectedly won the title. Everyone thinks that Lee Chong Wei is gifted and intelligent, and this is undeniable.
But he embarked on the road of badminton because "the children of poor families are in charge of the family early". Lee Chong Wei was born in Malaysia in 1982, but he has Chinese blood. His grandparents moved to Malaysia when they were young to make ends meet.
and eventually settled there. When Li Zongwei was born, his family already had three children, and although his family was not poor, it was not wealthy. Some people suggested that Lee Chong Wei's mother send him to a family that could not have children to ease the burden, but the mother-son relationship was deep.
How can you give it up?So Li's mother resolutely left Li Zongwei, and family life is still tight. Two older brothers and an older sister dropped out of school one after another to go out to work, and the family's financial situation gradually improved. The family found that Li Zongwei was not tall and not as good as his age.
So he began to practice basketball Xi. Lee Chong Wei also has a certain talent in basketball, and was once selected for the state team, which is what we call the provincial team. However, the mother felt too distressed for the emaciated boy.
As a result, she did not allow Lee Chong Wei to continue his basketball training. This decision unexpectedly affected Lee Chong Wei's life. Lee Chong Wei didn't have a special affection for basketball, so he stopped training. Surprisingly.
This decision shaped Lee Chong Wei's life. Lee Chong Wei's father liked to play badminton, and while playing with Lee Chong Wei, a coach noticed him and intended to guide Lee Chong Wei to learn Xi badminton. Li Zongwei felt that it was okay.
I learned Xi badminton with the coach. The coach saw Lee's progress and suddenly realized that he had discovered a genius. So, he persuaded Lee Chong Wei's parents to let him specialize in Xi badminton, but his parents did not agree at first. The mother still feels sorry for her son.
He felt that the physical training was too hard, and his father thought about the practical problems, thinking that badminton should be just a hobby and not worth learning Xi specially. However, this time, the son behaved very stubbornly, and he had to learn Xi badminton.
The two were unable to change his decision, so they had to compromise. Only the coach knows that Lee Chong Wei is going to take control of the future of badminton!The second millennium?From learning Xi badminton to being selected for the national team, Lee Chong Wei only took 6 years.
During this period, there were three years of neglect, and the bitterness of it was probably only known to him. Fortunately, after all kinds of hardships and a prosperous career, the dazzling star of Lee Chong Wei is destined to hang high. There are many talented players.
But Li Zongwei is undoubtedly the most persistent one, no matter how the outside world views him or how he snubbs him, he is wholeheartedly improving himself. So, in 1999, he won the Malaysian National Championships.
No one dares to despise Lee Chong Wei anymore. In 2000, Lin Dan was also a fledgling young player, and both of them participated in the World Junior Championships, but did not face each other, and Lee Chong Wei stopped third. After that, Lee Chong Wei devoted himself to badminton.
Winning a gold medal at the Olympics is a lifelong dream. In 2003, his form gradually improved, and there were even signs of replacing the Malaysian first brother. In 2004, he won his first Open Championship, which gave him more confidence.
That year, he also fought against Lin Dan, the "lifelong enemy". After years of unremitting efforts, Lin Dan was reborn and defeated Li Zongwei in one fell swoop, winning the victory with a score of 2-1. This match was a profound competitive experience for Lee Chong Wei.
Motivates him to work harder for the next races. Two years later, he became the leading figure in Malaysia's men's singles badminton rankings, successfully reaching the top of the world rankings, which is of great significance for Malaysia.
With frequent victories in international competitions, he is widely regarded as an opponent to be reckoned with. However, at the Beijing Olympics that he had been longing for, he ended up winning a silver medal, which was a huge honor for Malaysia.
Because they are not badminton powerhouses, this is their second Olympic silver medal, although unfortunately they did not win the gold medal. The gold medal has always been the highest honor pursued by Li Zongwei, and this loss made him deeply regretful. However, fate is unpredictable.
Hope is sometimes just a thin line, but Lee Chong Wei fell ill. After a match in 2012, he suffered a serious injury that prevented him from training at high intensity. But he couldn't give up his hopes for the upcoming Paris Olympics.
So he endured the pain and competed again and again, up to the Olympics. In the final, he faced Lin Dan again, and the audience was moved by this fierce matchup, but unfortunately he was still defeated in the end.
Lee Chong Wei knew what the Malaysian people expected of him, so he trained hard and finally ushered in the 2016 Olympic Games. This year, he defeated Lin Dan in the Olympiad, thinking that the gold medal was close at hand.
Unexpectedly, in the final, he met another strong Chinese player, Chen Long. He is disgruntled and eager to win a gold medal for his country in his career, but fate seems to be playing a game on him. As of 2018, in the official competition.
Lee Chong Wei and Lin Dan have played each other a total of 40 times, but have lost 28 times. However, this should not be the end of Lee Chong Wei, who collapsed due to nasopharyngeal cancer. Despite the pain of his illness, he embraced it.
Keep trying to get back on the field. His diet became a problem, his throat ulcerated, and he could only eat with the help of anesthetics. After 33 electrotherapy sessions, his family cried behind his back countless times, and his wife often burst into tears, but he still survived strongly.
* Costs can run into the millions, but these are insignificant when it comes to health. Lee Chong Wei is most concerned about whether he can return to the game, and he once announced to ** that he will make a comeback. However, the comeback time was repeatedly postponed until one day.
He announced his retirement, and his glorious era finally came to an end. He is the first badminton player in the world to exceed 100,000 men's singles points, and has occupied the top spot in the BWF men's singles rankings for 815 consecutive days, etc., these are his honors. However, his lifelong wish to win an Olympic gold medal has never been realized. Lee Chong Wei did not quit badminton entirely, but turned to working behind the scenes to develop the next generation of better players!