Next Olympic Games not yet been considered, Fan Zhendong says

In an interview on CCTV on August 18, Paris Olympic men's singles champion Fan Zhendong responded to the abnormal sports fandom, retirement gossip and other related subjects.

Fan Zhendong frankly admitted that, at one time, because of the fandom feel disturbed.

Fan Zhendong said that there are a lot of things that are overly concerned off the competition, and there is a lot of pressure.

"Sometimes I feel that losing is bad, and winning is not so good either."

In the Paris Olympics table tennis men's singles match, the world's top-ranked Wang Chuqin 2:4 defeated Sweden's Truls Moregard, did not qualify for the men's singles round of 16, the national men's singles championship pressure is totaled on Fan Zhendong, but Fan lived up to the expectations and succeeded in winning the gold.

Fan particularly mentioned the match against Harimoto Tomokazu, "In retrospect, including when the meeting to sum up, in fact, there is some fear after the event, because at that time in the first eight left me a Chinese athlete. I was worried that a lot of records, or a lot of the glorious history of the Chinese team would be buried in myself," he said.

He said: "I think I can even resolve this kind of difficulty, this kind of situation, I think I'm really quite strong, although it's only an eight-to-four match, and I wasn't sure whether I could win the championship at the end of the match, but I think I was successful at that moment, or in this match, I managed to win over myself."

In addition, after the Paris Olympics, many netizens speculated whether he was going to retire, to which Fan Zhendong said, "After this Olympics is really very tired, I need to take a good rest. I'm not thinking about the next Olympics yet, so I'll leave it to time to see what happens in the future."

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