Family member Li Furong, in the 1960s, he was the absolute main force in Chinese table tennis and a shining sports star like Yao Ming and Liu Xiang today.

At that time, table tennis was a national sport, and people paid more attention to it than it does now. At that time, Li Furong was well-known as the "table tennis handsome boy" and "Bomber" (these are nicknames given by foreign media when playing competitions abroad.

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After he retired, he served as the head coach of the Chinese Table Tennis Men's Team, and later served as the Director of the Table Tennis and Badminton Center, Director of the Training Bureau of the State Sports General Administration, and Deputy Director of the State Sports General Administration.

It is no exaggeration to say that half of the gold medals won by the Chinese in the Summer Olympics are directly or indirectly related to him.

He is an entrepreneur who has established China's table tennis scene for 50 years and has witnessed the glory of the New China Olympic Games. He is also a famous sports coach with outstanding appearance and astonishing the situation.

At the end of 2004, Li Furong, who had contributed to Chinese sports for 47 years, retired. At this time, there was one person who was the happiest - his wife and first love Zhang Yuyi: She hugged her husband and said: "You are finally home today.

, finally a member of our family." Before this, home was just a place where Li Furong took a short break, and most of his thoughts were on work.

In those years, the couple spent little time together and many separations, and his wife Zhang Yuyi fully understood the ups and downs.

Falling in love is like an underground worker. Li Furong, the "beautiful man in the table tennis world", also had many "fans" back then.

It's been more than a month since his game in Yugoslavia ended, and a group of Yugoslav girls came to the embassy to find the handsome man Li Furong.

The comrades at the embassy were very humorous. They found a bald old comrade and said that he was Li Furong.

The girls quit: "No, no, Li Furong doesn't look like this!" But back then, when there were no scandals, Li Furong was quite conservative. Even when he fell in love with Zhang Yuyi, he was introduced by others.

Zhang Yuyi comes from an artistic family and is a dancer. One of them is engaged in literature and art, the other is engaged in sports. One is handsome and the other is charming. They were really a golden boy and a beautiful girl at that time, a match made in heaven.

However, their relationship was not as romantic as that of young people today. It was difficult for Zhang Yuyi to ask Li Furong to accompany him to a park or go shopping. He always felt very uncomfortable being seen.

When they take a bus, they have to get in through one front door and one through the back door. They make a look when getting off the bus and meet again in a less crowded place, just like underground workers.

Difficult Moments for a Wife After Marriage After marriage, Li Furong continued his intense training and competition, while Zhang Yuyi jumped in and settled in the Northeast.

Her seemingly fragile body has amazing endurance. Even though she was pregnant, she still did physical work and even went to the fields to plant rice.

The production team cadre said that I would give you some light work and asked her to feed the four pigs.

Later, when there were signs of threatened miscarriage, she asked to go back to Beijing. She got off the train, with a big belly and two bedrolls on her back, just like a refugee.

When her eldest son was born, Li Furong sent her to the hospital and continued training.

When the child was a few months old, Zhang Yuyi entrusted his son to his mother and went to the countryside to Wuhan again.

When she came back from Wuhan, she was so thin that Li Furong almost couldn't recognize her.

Zhang Yuyi was originally a dancer with good conditions. She was one of the first ballet dancers in Northeast China.

However, both of them could not focus on their careers. In order to take care of his family and children, Zhang Yuyi had to give up his stage career and chose to return to Beijing Art School as a dance teacher.

Even though she gave up her favorite career for the sake of her family, it was still very difficult for a woman to take care of her children. Once, when her child was sick, Zhang Yuyi carried her high fever child on her back on the bus to the hospital in the middle of the night. The child vomited all over her and she carried her child on her back.

She walked with her child and cried. At that time, Li Furong was leading the team to compete abroad.

Even though they only got together so few times, Zhang Yuyi still commented affectionately on Li Furong: "He actually always thinks about me." At that time, when Li Furong came back from playing ball games abroad, he would definitely bring chocolates to Zhang Yuyi.

The significance of this chocolate is not that it represents deep affection like the chocolates given to young people today on Valentine's Day, but it has another practical purpose - at that time, material was scarce, Zhang Yuyi could not keep up with nutrition, and he often felt dizzy when dancing, so he relied on this

Only chocolates can last a day of performances or training. Therefore, the chocolates given by Li Furong are not only a romantic gift of love, but also a testimony of the hard times.

After the defeat, his wife and children went to the station to greet him. In 1974, Li Furong retired and became the head coach of the Chinese men's table tennis team.

In 1979, he led the team to participate in the 35th Pyongyang World Table Tennis Championships.

In this competition, they unexpectedly lost the team, singles, and doubles championships, and only got back a mixed doubles championship.

This is the worst loss for our men's table tennis team since 1961.

Many people wrote to Li Furong saying: "You lost and came back with only a pair of underpants." "You usually don't train well. Don't take a plane or a train this time. You should run back from Pyongyang." Some people also sent an insole.

He said, "This is the good result you achieved in the 35th session. I will give you a medal!" This can be imagined for Li Furong, who has always had outstanding achievements and is very competitive.

Zhang Yuyi learned the news of their failure, but hurriedly took her children to the Beijing Railway Station (not the airport) to welcome her husband back. She said: "They won the championship before, and when they came back, they were at the airport with flowers and applause everywhere, and they were busy waiting for the leaders to meet them.

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