Yang Fen
Yang Fen
Yang Fen, born on July 31, 1982 in Hubei Province, China, is a Chinese born table tennis player from Congo.
In his early years, he played in Hubei provincial team. When he was 15, he switched to Shanghai Club. In 1999, he retired and returned to Wuhan, Hubei Province to study. Yang Fen went to Congo (Brazzaville) to coach in 2004 and became a player in 2005. In 2007, she won the women's singles and mixed doubles championships in the African table tennis championships. In the same year, she won the women's singles championship in the all African games. On July 22, the African Table Tennis Federation confirmed Yang Fen's qualification for the 2008 Beijing Olympic table tennis competition.
Character experience
Algiers, July 22 (Xinhua) (Reporter Lin Jianyang, Zhou Jie) the African Table Tennis Federation announced on July 22
The former Chinese table tennis player Yang Fen, who is now representing Congo (Brazzaville), is on the list and is qualified to participate in the table tennis competition of Beijing Olympic Games.
The African Table Tennis Federation announced the list after all the table tennis competitions of the 9th All Africa Games ended on the 21st. There are six men and six women who have won the qualification of the African region. Africa thus becomes a filtered advertisement
The first mainland to announce the qualification of table tennis in Beijing Olympic Games.
Yang Fen is a veteran of the Shanghai team. In the table tennis event of the All Africa Games, Yang Fen not only won the women's singles championship, but also joined hands with her teammate Saka suraju to win the mixed doubles championship, winning the only two gold medals for the Congo delegation at the opening of the All Africa Games. Sulaju also qualified for the Beijing Olympic Games.
At the All Africa Games, Nigeria, an African table tennis power, won four gold medals: Men's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and women's team. Egypt won the men's championship.
Among the other 10 players qualified for the African region, Nigeria has two male and two female players on the list. They are Saigon toriola, Monday miotohan, Bose Carver and Cecilia ofeon. Three players from the Egyptian team have been qualified, including two men, said Rahim and Abdu Massad, and one woman, Shaima Abdu Aziz. Two Tunisian women qualified, neslin belkaher and SAFA Saidani. AI Kuta, a male athlete from Algeria, the host of the all African games, also got the ticket to participate in the Beijing Olympic Games.
Yang Fen said that it may be a mistake to choose table tennis because there are too many talents in China and it is too difficult to get ahead. With a smile, Yang Fen said that she is lucky that there are so many experts in the Chinese table tennis team, and few of them have participated in the Olympic Games. Now she has realized the dream that countless colleagues can't reach.
In July 2007, the 9th All Africa Games was held in Algeria. Yang Fen, who represented the women's table tennis team of Congo (Brazzaville), won the women's singles championship with unbeaten record, and thus won the ticket to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Africa. From obscurity to realization of dreams. At that moment, Yang Fen, a 25-year-old beautiful girl from Wuhan, acted like Cinderella in a beautiful fairy tale. It was amazing that life was sometimes so wonderful.
On October 8, Yang Fen, who had just finished the women's table tennis world cup as an African champion, was interviewed by reporters on the third day of her return to Wuhan, telling her story of her hard and magical journey of table tennis.
The road of table tennis is full of twists and turns
Yang Fen was born in 1982 and lives in Guocikou, Hanyang. At the age of 6, Yang Fen, who was still a freshman in Erqiao primary school, was accidentally taken in by the school's table tennis coach. "I've been very tall since I was a child. I always sit in the last row in class. Maybe I think my physical condition is good and suitable for sports, so the coach chose me." Yang Fen, who is 1.70 meters tall, is absolutely "tall" among the girls. With her slim figure and beautiful face, Yang Fen has nothing to do with the athletes in appearance. Instead, she looks like an eye-catching modern girl on the runway. However, behind Yang Fen's beautiful figure, it is a road full of frustrations.
Since she started playing in 1988, Yang Fen has had to transfer to other schools for various reasons. She has left small footprints in the ping-pong halls of shandongmen, Yanma lane and Xinhua Road. In 1993, 11 year old Yang Fen was favored by the table tennis team of Wuhan Institute of physical education. In the same year, she joined the team and ended her wandering journey of table tennis enlightenment. After two years of hard training in the Institute of physical education, Yang Fen chose to join the Shanghai Pudong club team in 1995, and then began her wandering in a foreign land. "When I was a child, I never yelled bitterness and tiredness. Many people thought this road was difficult. I also knew that there were so many people playing table tennis in China, and there were only a few world champions. I didn't have too many strict requirements on myself, as long as I like it. "Despite years of hard work, Yang Fen didn't make it to the top in the end, but it is this kind of life practice that makes Yang Fen more optimistic and stronger.
In 1999, Yang Fen bid farewell to her professional table tennis career and returned to Wuhan to study in China University of Geosciences. In the University table tennis team, Yang Fen is the absolute main force, she represented the University of Geosciences to participate in two National University Games, and achieved good results. In 2004, Yang Fen graduated from university and joined Wuhan Water Affairs Group. The water affairs group, which has always attached great importance to table tennis, has a table tennis team with many provincial teams and even national team experts. Therefore, Yang Fen has been able to continue her relationship with table tennis. Despite this, after taking part in the work, Yang Fen has been unable to spend all her energy on table tennis, and she began to gradually alienate from her favorite sport. However, at this time, a sudden invitation changed Yang Fen's fate again.
In July 2007, the 9th All Africa Games was held in Algeria. Yang Fen, who represented the women's table tennis team of Congo (Brazzaville), won the women's singles championship with unbeaten record, and thus won the ticket to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Africa. From obscurity to realization of dreams. At that moment, Yang Fen, a 25-year-old beautiful girl from Wuhan, acted like Cinderella in a beautiful fairy tale. It was amazing that life was sometimes so wonderful.
On October 8, Yang Fen, who had just finished the women's table tennis world cup as an African champion, was interviewed by reporters on the third day of her return to Wuhan, telling her story of her hard and magical journey of table tennis.
After a brief consideration and with the support of the leaders of the water group, Yang Fen readily accepted it. In this way, Yang Fen began a further and more magical journey in a foreign land.
Congo (Brazzaville) is located in South Africa. Because it used to be the colony of France, this small country with a population of only 3 million takes French as the subject. Congo (Brazzaville) and the war-torn Congo (Zimbabwe) are only adjacent to a river. Yang Fen said that when she went to bed at night, she could often hear gunshots from neighboring countries. Years of war and natural disasters have made most African countries very poor, and Congo (Brazzaville) is no exception. Talking about her life experience in Congo, Yang Fen described her feelings in one word: bitter!
"Even in the capital, Brazzaville, it's common to cut off water and electricity," she said. During the day, there is basically no water. At night, even if there is water, there is no hot water. Africans are used to hot days and like to flush cold water. But I can't get used to it, so I have to take a bath with hot water. "
There is no guarantee of basic life, let alone extravagant talk about entertainment life. Yang Fen said that in her first year, she was extremely bored at night. Because of the language barrier, she was unable to communicate with the local people. Every day, she had to shut herself up in her room to read, learn French, or read the DVD she brought with her.
The living standard is not high, which is totally tolerable for Yang Fen who has suffered a lot. However, Yang Fen suffered a lot from the disease caused by the disobedience of soil and water.
Yang Fen told reporters that many diseases are prevalent in the African continent, so the Chinese government requires every person going abroad to receive three doses of vaccine before going out to prevent diseases. But even so, Yang Fen did not escape the disaster. "Not long after I went there, I was bitten by a mosquito, leaving a big scar," Yang Fen said. She picked up her trouser legs and showed the reporter that although it had been two years, the scar on her calf was still clearly visible. "Not a day later, I was all over the place and began to have a fever. Once checked, I suffered from malaria." Malaria is a very common disease in Africa. Its severity can be large or small. If it is not treated in time, it may even lose its life. Fortunately, after emergency treatment, Yang Fen's condition was soon under control. But what Yang Fen didn't expect was that she contracted the disease three times during her life in Africa. "It's so painful. It's a kind of torture."
The difficult life in Africa did not defeat the strong Yang Fen. Once she stepped onto the stage of table tennis, all her unhappiness would be swept away. Yang Fen is a table tennis star in the eyes of the people of Congo.
In 2006, after a year of coaching the Congo team, Yang Fen changed her identity into an athlete and coach at the repeated request of the other team. So far, Yang Fen became the first Chinese player to join the Congo table tennis team and began to play on behalf of the Congo team. In the same year's Africa international invitational tournament, Yang Fen won the women's singles championship at the beginning of her life, but this is only the beginning.
In March 2007, Yang Fen won the women's singles championship in the African Championship, which is also the first intercontinental gold medal in the history of the Congo table tennis team.
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