Tokyo Olympics, Liu Shiwen withdrew from the tournament on the Chinese team?

Liu Shiwen is the national Bing merit, but also made great sacrifices and contributions, Liu Shiwen has got the world No. 1, and also got the women's singles title of the World Series. But destiny, Liu Shiwen always with the Olympic Games singles qualification. At the Tokyo Olympics, Liu Shiwen did not qualify for the singles, she was given a heavy responsibility in the mixed doubles. Unfortunately, Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin tried their best, but still lost 3-4 to the Japanese duo of Hayabusa Mizutani/Misaki Ito. After collecting a silver medal, Liu Shiwen was in tears at the Olympic Games.

At the end of the mixed doubles competition and before the start of the women's team competition, Liu Shiwen chose to voluntarily withdraw from the team competition because of a recurrence of her elbow injury, and eventually, the national team agreed to make a substitution, with Wang Manyu standing in for her.

Now look at, this is the right decision, the national bing achievement three win-win situation. First, the overall strength of the women's team of the national ping has not been affected, and even stronger; second, Liu Shiwen avoided losing; third, Wang Man Yu got a chance to exercise and is also expected to become an Olympic champion.

Japanese bing is the biggest loser, if Liu Shiwen play, the Japanese bing will take Liu Shiwen as the main breakthrough, from the hand-to-hand record, Liu Shiwen face Ito Misaki is 1 win and 2 losses. And the remaining 3 people against Ito Misaki, the advantage is obvious, Chen Meng is 4 wins and 0 losses, Sun Yingsha is 7 wins and 2 losses, Wang Manyu is 8 wins and 2 losses. But now, with Liu Shiwen not playing, Ito Misheng will have a tough time facing any of them.

The team competition has reached this stage, and objectively speaking, there is not much suspense for the national team to get two team gold medals. Previously, the national bing got 2 gold and 3 silver results, 2 metals in Chen Meng and Ma Long, 3 silver is Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen, Sun Yingsha, Fan Zhendong. The last 2 team events, if the national ping successfully take, is 4 gold and 3 silver.

Before the Tokyo Olympics began, Liu Guoliang mentioned the gold medal target is to keep three to fight for four to fight for five, if the final get 4 gold and 3 silver, I believe Liu Guoliang can accept. After all, table tennis is an Olympic project, not the national team competition, appropriate loss of a gold medal, conducive to the promotion and development of table tennis.