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Editor captain Zhang

When we talk about badminton, Dānlín must be our first thought.

As Dānlín's opponent, Li Zongwei, one of the four kings of badminton, is also a name that is often mentioned. Compared with Dānlín, Li Zongwei is even sadder.

He stood in the men's singles final of the Olympic Games three times and failed all three times. He has never won heavyweight competitions such as the World Championships and the Asian Games, and he has failed many times in direct dialogue with Dānlín.

In his career of more than 20 years, the most impressive thing of the Malaysian star was losing to Dānlín.

Apart from his career, his life is full of ups and downs. He was diagnosed with cancer at a young age, which made him even more sad.

However, Li Zongwei did not bow to life, but accepted everything in life optimistically. He even published an autobiography entitled "Loser is King" on 20 1 1, which shows his optimism. So what is the loser king?

Li Zongwei was born in a poor Malaysian family on 1982. His grandparents are from Fujian, China. Because of the war in China at that time, he had to emigrate to Malaysia.

Before Li Zongwei was born, his parents had a son and a daughter. Originally, they didn't intend to have another child. The birth of Li Zongwei was actually an accident.

Li Zongwei's birth means that parents need to raise three children, which is even worse for families who are not rich. Forced to make a living, Li Zongwei had been moving around with his parents until he was 4 years old, and had no fixed place to live.

People around also advised Li Zongwei's parents to give Li Zongwei away, which can not only reduce the financial pressure at home, but also make Li Zongwei live a better life.

However, mother Xu Jinshui is unwilling. Although living conditions are difficult, Xu Jinshui has always maintained an optimistic attitude.

She loves her children very much, even if she suffers together, it is better than being separated from her family. Now it seems that Li Zongwei's optimism in the face of difficulties may come from his mother.

In this way, Li Zongwei spent his childhood in a poor but loving family.

In his spare time, Li Zongwei would go to the badminton hall with his father who loved badminton, which also changed Li Zongwei's life.

1 1 years old, Li Zongwei was playing badminton with his father in the badminton hall, and a coach of the badminton hall found Li Zongwei.

After he gave a few instructions, the coach was surprised at the speed of his progress, so he told his father Li that the boy's badminton talent was rare in a hundred years and he hoped to learn badminton from himself.

The coach firmly believes that under his guidance, Li Zongwei will achieve great success in the future.

At first, Li's father objected, because he hoped that his children could change their fate through reading, but those who were very interested in badminton persisted.

Living in poverty, he secretly picked up the broken rackets discarded by others and even practiced against the wall with a pot.

Seeing the insistence, Li's father agreed, so he embarked on the road of learning badminton.

Shortly after entering the formal training, Li Zongwei showed amazing talent.

Through his excellent performance on the training ground, Li Zongwei quickly joined the Malaysian youth team.

In the youth team, Li Zongwei was ignored by the coach for three years because he was too thin.

But gold always shines, when Frost, the head coach of Malaysian badminton team, discovered Li Zongwei.

He thinks that the height defect can't affect the highly skilled Li Zongwei's display in badminton, so he makes an exception and approves Li Zongwei's entry.

After entering the national team, Li Zongwei gradually emerged. 1999, 17-year-old Li Zongwei participated in the national competition in the era of 1 and won the national championship.

A year later, 18-year-old Li Zongwei participated in the world competition for the first time. He beat many excellent players in the badminton world youth championship and entered the semi-finals, but he finally won the third place and won a bronze medal.

It is good that you can win the third place in your first World Cup, but Li Zongwei is not satisfied.

In the subsequent training, he continued to carry forward the fighting spirit of China people. Almost every day, he is the first to come to the stadium and the last to leave, hoping to get on the podium of the championship with his own efforts.

On the way to winning the championship, he also gained love.

Besides training, he also needs to take classes in the national team. In a class, he met Huang Miaozhu, a girl who will accompany him all his life.

She is also a member of the Malaysian badminton national team. Their goal is to win the championship, so they supervise each other and train together.

In the next few years, although Li Zongwei worked hard, he never won the championship. Denmark Open reached the quarter-finals, Malaysia Open badminton ranked second, Netherlands Open badminton ranked third.

Unfortunately, in the most important Olympic Games, he lost to China in the competition of 16 into 8 and stopped at the peak of 16.

After the Olympic Games, the Malaysian national team hired a coach specially from China. With the help of the coach, Li Zongwei made rapid technical progress, and finally Li Zongwei won the championship at the Taipei Open in China one year later.

However, just winning the open championship is not enough. Li Zongwei has made up its mind to win the world champion and the Olympic champion.

Also in this year, Li Zongwei became the first brother of Malaysian badminton men's singles.

Li Zongwei has become a national treasure. Every time an important competition is held in Li Zongwei, Malaysia is crowded with people. No matter which country they come from, no matter whether their political positions are the same or not, they will stand in front of the TV to cheer for Li Zongwei.

But it was also in this year that he began a love-hate relationship with Dānlín, the first brother of China men's singles.

In the next ten years, Li Zongwei broke into the finals of the Olympic Games and the World Championships many times, but he always lost in the face of his opponent Dānlín, whom he wanted to surpass all his life.

He has won many open championships, but he has never touched the gold medals in the Olympic Games and world championships. Dānlín, the player who lost the most in the final, didn't even win the Asian Games.

At the 20 16 Brazil Olympic Games, Li Zongwei finally defeated Dānlín in the semi-final and reached the final, which was his closest match to the Olympic champion.

It's just that the opponent in this final is no longer Dānlín of the previous two times, but Chen Long of China. Maybe God wants to create the image of a tragic hero. Li Zongwei lost to Chen Long in the final and won the second place in the Olympic Games for the third time.

During his career, Li Zongwei won the runner-up in three Olympic Games, four world championships, one Thomas Cup and one Asian Games.

He won 34 runner-ups in his whole career, among which the runner-up in seven world competitions earned Li Zongwei the nickname of the second child in the Millennium.

But Li Zongwei doesn't care. He said that his goal in badminton is to win the championship, and the second child means that he is only one step away from winning the championship.

Looking back on the world badminton for more than ten years, Li Zongwei and Dānlín are like Ronaldo and Messi on the football field. Not having a world champion doesn't mean that Li Zongwei's career is not excellent, but his peak coincides with Dānlín's, so we can only say that Li Hesheng was born.

However, during this period, good news came from Li Zongwei. He and his girlfriend Huang Miaozhu got married on 20 1 1.

Originally, the two sides planned to hold a wedding after the 20 12 London Olympic Games, but Huang Miaozhu's mother-in-law passed away. According to the custom in China, if they can't get married within 100 days, they will have to wait for three years, which neither side wants to see, so they have to get married in advance.

In this way, on the evening of 20 1 year 1, Li Zongwei held a grand wedding in Kuala Lumpur Convention and Exhibition Center. Their wedding was very characteristic of China. Many Malaysian politicians and leaders attended his wedding, and China's ambassador to Malaysia was also invited to attend.

After the 20 16 Olympic Games, 34-year-old Li Zongwei has reached the end of his career. He still doesn't want to give up and still has the dream of winning the world championship. With this momentum, Li Zongwei continued to train hard.

This time, he wants to beat Dānlín, Chen Long and everyone and win his own world championship.

20 18 is a special year for Li Zongwei.

This year, Li Zongwei once again played against Dānlín in the World Championships, which was a 4 1 Lin Li battle. After a fierce battle, Li Zongwei lost to Dānlín.

At this time, Li Zongwei was 36 years old, and he didn't know how much time he had to pursue the glory of the world champion.

Fate seems to have played a joke on Li Zongwei. In this year, Li Zongwei was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Fortunately, there is still a chance of early cure, so Li Zongwei had to stop training and embark on the road of treatment with his wife.

According to Li Zongwei, within three weeks after he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, the complications of cancer broke out and his whole throat was completely festered. Every time I eat, it's like being pricked by a needle. It hurts so much that I don't want to eat it for several times.

But for the sake of his health, to stay with him all the time, and not to give up his wife, Li Zongwei decided to stick to it.

Li Zongwei always keeps an optimistic attitude in front of his wife. Every time he eats, he will eat as much as possible after playing anesthetic to relax his wife. My wife will secretly cry after sleeping in Li Zongwei.

Fortunately, esophageal cancer was finally effectively controlled. Li Zongwei slowed down his badminton career, devoted tens of millions of treatments, and finally got the result.

Of course, esophageal cancer is just under control. Li Zongwei's health can't be as good as before. After all, some injuries can't be recovered, and Li Zongwei has become thinner.

As the body could not recover, Li Zongwei also knew that it was time to end his sports career, so on 20 18, Li Zongwei announced his retirement.

Li Zongwei also made history. He was the first person to win "Datuk" as an athlete.

The so-called Datuk is a common title in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and other countries, and it is a respectful title for people with status and high reputation.

In the same year, Li Zongwei's film Loser is King was also released in China.

The film expounds Li Zongwei's personal legendary experience and describes the story that he became a legendary badminton star in the world from an ordinary youth.

Li Zongwei said that he hopes to tell us through this film that there are never losers in life and everyone can be the protagonist of life. As long as you take a positive attitude after failure, everyone will succeed.

After retiring, Li Zongwei has been living in Penang. After more than ten years of struggle, he has saved enough savings to buy a house and a car to honor his parents.

I also live in a two-story villa, and a corner of the study is filled with the champion trophies of my badminton career.

When talking about his relationship with Dānlín, Li Zongwei said: When I was young, Dānlín and I were full of gunpowder, but after marriage, they were actually friends and often chatted on WeChat.

After Dānlín announced his retirement, Li Zongwei also wrote: I have been short of 1 for a long time, and I am proud of you. The so-called "Three Shortages and One Shortage" refers to Li Zongwei, Taufik and Peter Gade among the four great kings of badminton at that time, all of whom have retired, leaving only Dānlín.

At that time, when Li Zongwei retired, Dānlín also said that there was no one to accompany me in the future.

It can be said that Dānlín and Li Zongwei have gradually become friends after years of competition, which can be described as no discord, no concord.

Now, Li Zongwei puts all his life focus on family, and he and his wife hold out sweet hands from time to time. Li Zongwei often posts photos with his wife on his social media and says some sweet words, such as wanting to take you to see the sunrise and sunset in every corner of the world.

Li Zongwei and Huang Miaozhu also have two sons, born on 20 13 and 20 15 respectively.

Talking about children's education, Li Zongwei said that he would support two poor children, hoping to cultivate their spirit of hard work and independent life, so that they can become promising people when they grow up.

When going to school, Li Zongwei did not send a shuttle bus, but chose to let the children go to school by bus, so that they could understand what they wanted and should fight for it by themselves.

Dānlín can be said to be the god of badminton. If Dānlín is a representative of talent, then maybe Li Zongwei exists to prove to people that an ordinary person can challenge God.

Li Zongwei told us from his own personal experience that failure is not terrible, but how to face it is the most important thing. In the face of failure, we can't give up resistance and be ravaged by life.

We should also send out our cry, and we should also face the world with an optimistic attitude.

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