Table tennis has a high status in China, and He Zhili, as a legend in the history of table tennis, her career is full of twists and turns.
He Zhili, born in Shanghai on September 30, 1964, has shown outstanding table tennis talent since she was a child and has become the main player of the Chinese table tennis national team.
The 1987 World Table Tennis Championships became a watershed moment in Ho's career. At that time, there was a rule in Chinese table tennis, that is, "handicap".
In internal competitions, Chinese players will deliberately concede the ball in the face of the opposing side to ensure that the players who have a better chance of winning the gold medal can advance smoothly. In this competition, He Zhili was arranged by the coach to "handiew" the ball to her teammate Guan Jianhua to ensure that the Chinese team won the gold medal. He Zhili violated the coach's arrangement in the official match and directly defeated her teammates 3:0, which caused strong criticism and punishment. Unable to comply with the arrangement, she lost her qualification for the Olympics and chose to quit professional table tennis in despair.
Since then, her life has taken a new turn. In 1989, Ho Zhili met engineer Hideyuki Koyama in Japan, and finally entered the palace of marriage. In order to accompany her husband, she changed her nationality to Japan and changed her name to Tomori Koyama. In this marriage, she experienced the pain of her husband's cheating and decisively chose to divorce. Despite losing her marriage, she returned to the game, representing Japan in the tournament and reaching another peak in her career.
Her provocative behavior at the 1994 Asian Games caused controversy, and she frequently provoked the Chinese team with contemptuous eyes during the game, and shouted "Yoxi", which became a controversial scene in her career. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Tomori Koyama failed to win the championship as she wished, and at this time, in the face of the twists and turns of her marriage, she decisively chose to divorce and missed the 1997 World Table Tennis Championships.
After the divorce, she regained her momentum and became the head coach of the table tennis team of the Ikeda Bank Club in Osaka, fighting for her dream. Even though life has become more lonely, she has not given up. She participated in table tennis exchange activities, admitted her mistakes, and thanked the motherland for her cultivation, marking her transformation from arrogance to humility. With the passage of time, the aura of Tomoli Koyama gradually faded, but she still maintains a certain popularity in Japan, and receives birthday wishes from Japanese netizens every year.
Today, Tomoli Koyama still lives in Japan, and her life trajectory is full of ups and downs, but her choices and courage are worth pondering. From arrogance to humility, from betrayal to reconciliation, the life legend of Tomo-ri Koyama is embarrassing. She uses her own experience to prove that a person's growth is often accompanied by setbacks and reflections. From He Zhili to Koyama Zhili, from China to Japan, her life is a tortuous and touching history of struggle.