Recently, the Chinese Bing Association announced part of the Paris Olympics participation list, 35-year-old Grand Slam veteran Ma Long regretted to fall out of the singles program, triggering hot discussion among fans, while at the same time, an old rival who had lost to Ma Long 20 times also expressed his regret on a Chinese website, that is, the German famous general and world champion Ovtcharov, who had this to say:
“There will always be such and such regrets in life! I’m sorry to know that you won’t play singles in the Paris Olympics. You were a great opponent for me! Salute to our youth and struggle! Thanx! Still looking forward to fighting you at the Paris Olympics!”
Born in 1988, like Ma Long, Ovtcharov was a ping player who rose to prominence before the Beijing Olympics, and went on to play against China for more than a decade, and remains a core mainstay of the German men’s ping.
In the fight with Chinese athletes, Ma Long has always been Ovtcharov can not overcome a mountain – as mentioned, the two have played as many as 20 times, from 2009 until 2023, the result of all the Ovtcharov defeat, even if he had to fight with Ma Long to the last 2 points of the deciding game is not helpful.
How much does Ovtcharov value Ma Long? Many people may not believe it, he usually even let his wife (who is also a table tennis player) wear a jersey with Malone’s name on it when he trains at home, so as to encourage himself, but these methods did not change the situation of his consecutive losses against Malone.
Although on the field of play is a rival, but under the field of play everyone is a friend, Ovtcharov and Ma Long personal friendship, the two also achieved a cross-border friendship, this time he learned that the national ping part of the Olympic list announced the same day after the consolation of each other, is indeed touching.
Since the German team is not as competitive (relatively) as the national team, Ovtcharov was still nominated by his country’s national federation to participate in the singles and team competitions at the Paris Olympics. As for Ma Long, although he has no chance to participate in the singles, but according to the current situation, he is likely to be nominated to play in the team event of the Olympic Games as well, and it is entirely possible that he will play with Ovtcharov again at that time.
For Ma Long fell into the Olympic singles, some fans think it is unreasonable, there are netizens believe that this is the inevitable result of the old and new, so how do you think about it? Welcome to leave a message to write their own views!
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