Recently, Xu Xin, who has just been elected as the vice-president of the Asian Table Tennis Federation, appeared in Shanghai Banu Hotpot Restaurant and enjoyed the "last meal" before the training with his teammates who were going to Wenzhou for a month.

I have to say that since the Tokyo Olympic Games in August, Xu Xin, who is a famous table tennis player, has started a career of running around the clock. He just finished the Tokyo Olympic Games, followed by the National Games with a serious involution, followed by the Table Tennis Super League, and finally he had to do pre-match training for the World Table Tennis Championships a month later, and he could hardly stop for a moment.

With this in mind, I believe that even though athletes have strict dietary intake standards, fans and friends will understand. After all, how can Xu Xin, who is already a foodie, refuse the temptation brought by a hot pot?

What's more interesting, however, is that Xu Xin, who wanted to eat hot pot in a low profile, even waited in line at the door to taste this online celebrity hot pot, was recognized by many fans who also came to eat hot pot and came to ask for a group photo.

And Xu Xin's "fan base" has a large age span, which is why even Shanghai Auntie, who is not very good at capturing online information, can't help but come and take a photo with Olympic champion Xu Xin. This prompted Xu Xin, a junior, to give up his seat and let two aunts take pictures around him. The scene was strangely lovely.

You know, although most professional athletes enjoy national welfare, their wages are not high, and even if they win the gold medal, it doesn't mean that they can "eat and drink". On the contrary, before the internet was so developed, many star athletes who had been brilliant for a while had a bitter past after retiring.

Sang Xue, a former diving dream team in China, partnered with Li Na to win the women's 1m platform synchronized champion at the 2 Sydney Olympic Games. However, due to her mother's illness and various complicated reasons, she chose to retire and transform. At the age of 16, she went to China Renmin University to study broadcasting and hosting. However, because she has been in sports all the year round, it is not so easy for her to study.

At the low point of his life, the former Olympic champion worked as a waiter and delivered newspapers, and once had the idea of selling gold medals.

Compared with Sang Xue, the life of another champion athlete is more tragic.

His name is Cai Li, and the name with "Li" seems to give him innate strength, which urges him to embark on the road of weightlifting.

In his weightlifting career, he has won more than 4 national championships and more than 2 Asian championships, but nobody cares about him. Even now, not many people will remember his name.

His former glory did not make his retired life rich. On the contrary, the leg injury and low back pain left over from years of training torment this strong man all the time, and his body weighing more than 16 kilograms also makes him discriminated against in his later work.

Only after he retired did he discover that so many titles of champions could not even get him a piece of pork.

In 23, it was five years since Cai Li retired. On May 31st of that year, Cai Li, who was too obese, died of respiratory failure caused by respiratory sleep apnea syndrome at the age of 33.

In those years, the Internet was underdeveloped, and the economy is now prosperous. But compared with ordinary people who lived in those years, these athletes not only consumed their young time to concentrate on one thing, but were more likely to sacrifice their future for it.

regarding the retirement career of professional athletes, the film Beyond starring Ryan gives a realistic interpretation. The former "flying 1 meters" became greasy businessmen, the former weightlifting champion became porters, and the former Taekwondo champion drove tricycles. These athletes who had experienced the highlights of their lives ended up in embarrassing life.

compared with the entertainment circle with income of ten thousand, the contrast is great and thought-provoking.

Fortunately, the convenience of the Internet now gives us more opportunities to get close to sports events and professional athletes, and also allows more people to see these athletes who train hard on weekdays, their naive appearance in life and their hard work on the field.

For example, in this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, Quan Hongchan, a young Olympic athlete who won many Olympic gold medals, was born in a very ordinary way, but in the best times, with the most sweat, everyone witnessed her glory, and then she will surely embark on a different life.

Here, I wish the athletes who are preparing for the World Table Tennis Championships in advance that they can get their own gold medal. # Xu Xin #