Recently, the top of China's sports circle is undoubtedly Zheng Qinwen.
From No. 630 to No. 7 in the world, from unknown teenager to Grand Slam runner-up, it took her only 3 years. After ten years of waiting, another golden flower from China stood in the Australian Open women's singles final.
Although we didn't win the championship, we can still look forward to the 21-year-old star, and the possibilities are endless.
Yesterday, I was chatting with my colleague Xiao Zhong, and he asked me if I could talk about Zheng Qinwen.
In the end, Brother Di succumbed to a bowl of mutton noodles with meat from the rich second generation of Shenzhen.
What about talking?
Don't talk about the growth experience, don't talk about the competition process, after all, we are not professional.
What I'm going to talk about is the big expectations for her.
We always say that the NBA supergiant "has no successor", and the league is struggling to give a new façade.
But in fact, the Chinese sports industry has not given birth to superstars with influence covering the world for a long time.
To put it simply, there is a vacuum in Chinese sports idols.
What defines a world-class sports superstar?
In line with my personal understanding, there are only 3 of us in China.
The only real world-class ones are Yao Ming, born in 1980, Li Na, born in 1982, and Liu Xiang, born in 1983.
The era represented by these three people was the peak of Chinese sports.
They are from the same era, Yao Ming represents China's height, Liu Xiang allows the world to witness China's speed, and Li Na is China's representative of strength.
From the perspective of the influence of sports competitions in the world, and from the perspective of foreigners looking at China's influential athletes, these three people are undoubtedly GOATs.
In the first decade of the 21st century, China produced public figures such as Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, and Li Na, who had both world-class strength and world-class charisma.
However, these 3 sports icons have all grown up in Kuroko's saliva and retired.
China won the first world championship in a world sports competition on April 5, 1959 at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships held in Dortmund, Germany, where Rong Guotuan won the men's singles championship.
For decades, there have been no shortage of Chinese sports champions.
From table tennis and badminton to weightlifting and shooting taekwondo, there is no shortage of Chinese athletes who have won gold and silver in the arena. Especially under the Olympic strategy, we will compete for gold and silver in the competition.
But you'll find that a lot of our champions aren't the world's mainstream.
How do you define "world-class"? I think there are 3 points:
First, it still depends on the project. Second, look at the results. Third, look at the personal charm of the athlete.
Why is Liu Xiang an eternal god?
When he broke the record that year, he was also a sensation in Japan and South Korea.
He brought a touch and sensation to Asians that no athlete could have achieved in the future.
If you're a witness, you'll be like me, and you'll never forget that sentence in his post-match interview:
"Who said that yellow people can't get the top eight in the Olympics, I must prove it to everyone today, I am the Olympic champion! ”
Although winning glory for the country is worthy of praise, Liu Xiang's gold content in winning the track and field championship is really not diving, table tennis, weightlifting, and gymnastics. These are comparable to our traditional advantageous projects.
In addition, if we consider the background of the times, in the first decade of the 21st century, when China began to take off, he was born out of thin air and became the epitome and mark of the times.
The development of contemporary sports needs the guidance of stars, the call of role models, and a global vision.
When a project has a star, the market value and influence of the project become amazing.
Zheng Qinwen, for example, if she wins at least one Grand Slam title in the future, she is likely to become the world's highest-paid female athlete and become the next superstar to be internationally recognized.
Another point is that we have a lot of star athletes, but very few have gone out to see the development of foreign sports industry and professional sports.
And the experience of Li Na and Yao Ming far exceeds the ranking and the championship itself.
They are well-spoken, very international, and very confident.
In addition to excellent results in popular projects, international supergiants should also consider personality, temperament, and good values.
For example, Yao Ming's Hall of Fame speech is far from just a demonstration of language ability, but an all-round improvement of experience and way of thinking.
The kind of ability to learn and integrate with him and Li Na is really not something that every athlete can have.
Among the young athletes, Zheng Qinwen's speech made me feel the confidence, strength and hope of the new generation of young Chinese athletes.
After the game, she was not grateful for this and that, there was no sensationalism, and her expression was natural and comfortable, and she was confident.
Greater brilliance in the future is waiting for her to create, and she is expected to become the next supergiant of Chinese sports.
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