Although the Singapore Grand Slam has come to a successful conclusion, public opinion about national table tennis continues.
Especially when the world's No. 1 Fan Zhendong lost to Lin Shidong in an upset, some fans still refused to give up and blamed Swift's concert as the root of the problem.
Sometimes, you really wonder what kind of era this is.
Because public opinion can not only create gods, it can also easily destroy a person.
Little Fatty Fan Zhendong did go to the concert the day before the competition. This is true, but this is not the reason for "upset".
"Upset" is very common in competitive sports. It represents hard work, passion and blood.
Furthermore, many reasons can be analyzed for "upsets" in competitive sports.
For example, tactical conflicts, player mentality, and the physical condition of the athletes at the time, etc...
So, public opinion blindly attributes Fan Zhendong's upset to the concert, which is tantamount to a blind man trying to figure out the elephant.
What's more, as a junior, Lin Shidong knew Fan Zhendong very well.
chubby Fan Zhendong actually made it very clear in his response: Outside the competition, in my limited private time, I am just an ordinary young man, with my own normal hobbies and relationships, and I will continue to follow the rules and regulations of the starting lineup. be yourself.
This is what athletes should look like.
is not an undefeated god in the fandom culture.
Portuguese football coach Mourinho said this to the fans: Don't worship players, some of them are garbage, study hard and become doctors, engineers, teachers, they are the people the world needs most .
Mourinho's words will never be flattering no matter when they are placed, but they confirm every ironclad fact.
This is the reality. Athletes are human beings too. They also have their own lives, and they may even make huge mistakes.
So, looking at it this way, Fan Zhendong is really not wrong.
It is true that in the context of the information age, the private lives of athletes can easily be put under the microscope by public opinion and magnified geometrically.
But this does not mean that athletes should not have their own private lives or personal hobbies.
is like a certain A-list celebrity who was photographed by the media eating an ordinary bowl of noodles on the street one day.
Of course the positive commentators think this is a normal thing, while the negative arguments will raise various conjectures: Is he bankrupt? How could he eat such junk food? I want to take off my powder.
In fact, this is people’s normal personal life.
Because when we put aside the microscope of public opinion, it is just that the person involved was greedy and ate a bowl of noodles on the street.
In the final analysis, Fan Zhendong just did something that ordinary people often do. If Xiaopang is put on the fire because of this incident, then it shows how ignorant our public opinion environment is.
Sports is a war without gunpowder. Victory or defeat is a common occurrence for military strategists. Whether on the battlefield or in a competition, there has never been a victorious general.
Even if there is, athletes will grow old one day.
The reason why competitive sports fascinates billions of people around the world is because it contains a lot of uncertainty.
In other words, if sports competitions have always been about the strong crushing the weak, I can’t imagine how boring competitive sports would be.
In this case, we might as well vigorously promote "accumulate the number of likes to win the championship" to be more realistic.
