Preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games:Talking about Chinese Table Tennis Playing"A hun-dred Flowers Bloom,Bring Forth the New"After 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships—Academic Dialogue with YAO Zhenxu,Honorary Member of the International Tab
The Chinese women's table tennis team won their first team match 3∶2 at the 2024 World Team Table Tennis Champion-ships,but lost two of their matches to India's special rubber players."The five players of the Chinese women's team play a single way"and"a hundred flowers bloom,bring forth the new"have once again become the focus of Chinese people's discussion.In order to prepare for the Paris Olympic Games,finding out the problems and guiding the development direction of table tennis,we inter-viewed YAO Zhenxu,former national team leader of table tennis,former chairman of ITTF Technical Committee and honorary mem-ber of ITTF.This paper sorted out the context and historical contribution of the special play,analyzed the deep-rooted reasons for the single play at present,the problems of the training of the special play for teenagers,and probed into the specific ways to deal with the special play in the Paris Olympic Games.YAO Zhenxu also put forward a more structured view and perspective on the revi-sion of rules,national interests and project development.
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