Japan’s table tennis team to go to the 2024 Paris Olympics list has been announced, the last gold medalist Ito Mima was eliminated from the game, was only 15 years old Harimoto Miwa snatched the last group ticket, so that the fans are saddened, to the Japanese women’s table tennis head coach also in an interview said the reason for such a choice:
“(Harimoto Miwa) singles and doubles performance are very active …… comprehensive examination of the state of the game and the results of the previous players, think Harimoto Miwa player is the most suitable, so chose her.”
Obviously, the singles and doubles performance are outstanding, and recently better form became the Harimoto Miwa finally won the two main reasons, and Ito Mima in these aspects is indeed inferior to Harimoto Miwa, fell out of the selection is not wrong!
Unexpected and reasonable result
Objectively speaking, Ito Mima’s selection for the Olympics was an unexpected and reasonable result: “unexpected” because she was the last mixed doubles champion, runner-up in the women’s team and third place in the women’s singles, but after only three years, she was “jerked to the end”, and could not participate in a single event. A project can not participate, it is surprising.
As for the “reasonable”, because Ito Mima in the last championship after completely give up the doubles competition, but specializing in singles results are very unsatisfactory, the results continue to decline, and ultimately behind the people is also very normal.
Harimoto Miwa
Have to say, Ito Mima’s career plan change became the last straw that crushed her Paris Olympic qualification, because after she basically do not participate in the doubles competition, Harimoto Miwa but step by step “eat” its territory, last year became the Chinese table tennis team doubles new rivals.
Even in singles, Harimoto Miwa is better than Ito Mima, which is why Takehiro Watanabe said that Harimoto Miwa is now “capable of both singles and doubles”, which gives her an even greater advantage over Ito Mima.
On the recent year’s domestic and foreign war results, Harimoto Miwa’s play is far better than Ito Mima, first of all, in the domestic on the five main win at least once, and secondly, in the foreign war also beat Qian Tianyi, Shen Yubin and other top players, almost toppled Chinese table tennis team main performance is very conspicuous.
Ito Mima now doubles is not as good as Harimoto Miwa, singles is also beginning to decline continuously, coupled with their own also do not have much desire to compete, and ultimately fell out of the Olympic Games is reasonable, then we can only wait four years to fight for a new opportunity!
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