14th gold! Highlights of Chen Meng's reversal of Sun Yingsha's victory, Deng Yaping, Zhang Yining and the defending third player
In the women's singles table tennis final of the Paris Olympic Games that ended on the evening of August 3rd, Beijing time, 30-year-old veteran Chen Menghtml defeated Sun Yingsha 54-2 and won the title again. champion of the project. The 23-year-old Sun Yingsha failed in the finals of two consecutive Olympic Games.
It is worth noting that although many Chinese audiences came to the scene, most of them cheered for Sun Yingsha. Whenever Sun Yingsha scores, the audience bursts into cheers, but when Chen Meng wins, the applause is much smaller.
Such a strange phenomenon made media person Ke Han joke: "(Chen Meng) won the away game!" Even foreign reporters were puzzled. AFP reporter arnaud richard asked a fellow Chinese reporter present, "Why? Why do everyone support Sun Yingsha instead of Chen Meng?" This made the Chinese reporters not sure how to explain it to him.
However, as a veteran, Chen Meng seems to have long been accustomed to winning in such unfavorable circumstances. After the game, Chen Meng also said very gracefully in an interview: "I am very happy and very excited. I feel that there is no loser in today's final with Sasha. We both really tried our best. In the end, it was still I would like to thank the audience friends who cheered for our athletes. "Chen Meng's words of high emotional intelligence are undoubtedly quite meaningful. He not only praised Sun Yingsha's performance in the finals, but also gave her fans enough respect.
Indeed, if both players in the finals are Chinese players, there is no need to praise one and suppress the other in such a competition. As an audience, we should applaud their wonderful performance, no matter who the final champion is. They are all the pride of Chinese table tennis and deserve our respect and support.