"Since Yu is born, how can Liang be born!" After Zhou Yu suffered successive strategic failures, he was depressed. Finally, after sighing to the sky, he screamed several times and died.

This famous saying from the classic novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a true portrayal of the hearts of almost all equally matched opponents.

In the badminton men's singles final of the London Olympics, Chinese star Lin Dan played against Malaysian star Lee Chong Wei. After three fierce sets, Lin Dan won a thrilling victory with a slight advantage.

The commentator at the time shouted excitedly: How can there be beauty when there is beauty! This sentence is not only a pity for Li Zongwei, a great opponent, but also a respect for him.

However, a few years later, before Lee Chong Wei could break through, news came that he was retiring.

Lee Chong Wei retired to treat cancer. After recovery, Lee Chong Wei once publicly talked about his treatment process: 33 proton treatments, costing nearly 10 million.

On October 21, 1982, Li Zongwei was born in an ordinary family in Penang, Malaysia. Li Zongwei’s family was not wealthy.

When he was a child, there was a lack of supplies and there were not many toys. His parents had no money to buy electronic products for Lee Chong Wei, so Lee Chong Wei began to get happiness from sports.

In the beginning, Lee Chong Wei loved to play basketball. He often ran out to play in the Malaysian summer sun, and after a few days, he was tanned.

My parents began to prohibit Li Zongwei from playing basketball. Firstly, his skin would get sunburned. Secondly, they believed that there would be no future in playing basketball.

So he found another sport - badminton.

In the place where his father worked, he could not afford a badminton racket, so Li Zongwei made his own racket with fishing line and tree branches, and used the ubiquitous betel nut as a badminton ball.

In such a simple environment, Lee Chong Wei seems to have ignited his talent for playing badminton. He seems to be able to understand how his friends are going to shoot, and can even predict where the "ball" will land.

However, the homemade "racket" could not last long, but Lee Chong Wei could not afford a racket. Whenever he went to the store and saw the price on the racket label, he couldn't help but sigh, Even if he saved up the year's pocket money his father gave him, he still couldn't afford a racket.

Without a racket, Lee Chong Wei practiced ball with everything he could use: pans, fly swatters, as long as he could hit the ball, he made the best use of them.

God lived up to his efforts. In the Malay Primary School Badminton Open, Li Zongwei received a racket from a kind-hearted sports goods store manager and won the game.

This badminton genius began his advancement.

It took Lee Chong Wei six years to go from badminton hall to vocational school, and then from the state team to the Malaysian national team.

He finally realized what he said to his father when he was a child: "I will represent Malaysia in the future!"

In 2003, Lee Chong Wei won the first Badminton Championship in Malaysia at the Satellite Badminton Tournament. Champion, he was only 21 years old at this time.

A year later, Lee Chong Wei won the badminton men's singles championship for the first time at the Malaysian Open, and also set a championship record by winning 12 crowns in this event.

Since then, Lee Chong Wei has ranked first in the world points for 199 consecutive weeks.

No matter how you look at it, Lee Chong Wei is Malaysia’s well-deserved top seed in competing for the Olympic badminton singles gold medal.

However, in the first Olympic Games in 2008, Lee Chong Wei regretted winning the silver medal. However, Lee Chong Wei's silver medal also ended Malaysia's "medal drought" since 1996.

Although Lee Chong Wei was defeated and finished second in the next two Olympic Games, this did not prevent him from becoming a sports hero in the hearts of the Malaysian people.

The Prime Minister of Malaysia also awarded him the title of Datuk, which refers to the title of the highest chief executive of a province or state in Malaysia.

Later, it also became the honorific title for local people with high reputation or meritorious service in Malaysia. The ceremony of conferment was held in the Royal Palace.

When Li Zongwei held his wedding in 2012, the king and prime minister of Malaysia attended the ceremony. The former prime minister and his wife of Malaysia were his loyal fans. As long as they had time, they would fly to all over the world to watch. Lee Chong Wei’s game.

Even when Lee Chong Wei published his autobiography "The Loser Is King", the then first lady wrote a preface for him.

In the 2013 World Championship final, Lee Chong Wei was carried out on a stretcher in the deciding game.

Malaysian leaders praised his sportsmanship and asked the people to learn from the hero. During the Rio Olympics, the government even promised that if Lee Chong Wei wins the championship, Malaysia will have a day off.

The country has high hopes for Lee Chong Wei, and Lee Chong Wei carries a heavy burden in every game.

He once said in an interview: "I frequently participate in competitions and feel exhausted, but there is no way. Sometimes it is not me who has to compete, but the sponsors and the national team who have expectations for me, because some competitions are not suitable for me. It's very important to them."

"I am an athlete and I am regarded as a national hero. If I have time, I will not let them down."

Denmark Football. Wang Gaide once gave Li Zongwei such advice, saying that he could follow Lin Dan's example and selectively participate in international competitions to preserve his strength and put himself in the best condition.

But Lee Chong Wei lamented: "China does not have Lin Dan, Chen Long or other players. We in Malaysia have no successors, so we still have to insist on playing the next game."

Although Lee Chong Wei tried his best to shoulder the future of Malaysian badminton, but God did not favor Lee Chong Wei.

At noon on June 13, 2019, Beijing time, Lee Chong Wei held a press conference and announced that he would retire, ending his 19-year badminton career.

Everyone is still looking forward to the exciting battle between Lin and Li in the next badminton match. Faced with the news of Li Zongwei announcing his retirement, they feel very puzzled.

Lee Chong Wei’s retirement this time is definitely not because he wants to give up badminton, because after the Rio Olympics in 2016, he still has plans to enter the Tokyo Olympics.

He took the step of retiring because his body could no longer bear the load.

In 2018, Lee Chong Wei was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer and had to interrupt all competitions to concentrate on treatment.

After being diagnosed, Lee Chong Wei put down all outside activities, and his family accompanied him to Taiwan to concentrate on the treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer.

The reason why Lee Chong Wei went to Taiwan is because Taiwan has world-leading technology in the treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer.

No major surgery is required, just minimally invasive radiotherapy, which can completely preserve organs, and the cure rate for nasopharyngeal cancer can reach 90%, which is already an extremely high level.

In Taiwan, Lee Chong Wei said that he underwent electrotherapy thirty-three times, six or five times a week.

By the third week, due to the side effects of electrotherapy, in addition to the blackening of his neck, Li Zongwei was almost unable to eat. Because of the frequent treatments, all his throats were broken. Unable to eat or communicate with my family, it was like being temporarily mute.

Ordinary people would feel uncomfortable eating when they have a sore throat due to a fever, not to mention that Lee Chong Wei’s throat was completely damaged.

Lee Chong Wei’s state is seen by his family and hurts in their hearts.

When he wanted to eat every day, Li Zongwei could barely open his mouth and couldn't eat at all. However, Li Zongwei's mother saw that he was getting thinner and thinner, so she couldn't help but urge him to eat.

Lee Chong Wei could only helplessly say to his mother: "Don't force me to eat. I can eat and I definitely want to eat."

But if he doesn't eat, how can he have the strength to receive treatment? Even though it was very painful to swallow, Lee Chong Wei could endure it and take a few bites.

As the treatment progressed, the pain caused by eating became unbearable for Lee Chong Wei. When eating every day, the doctor sprayed anesthetic on Lee Chong Wei so that the food could be swallowed quickly.

Despite this, Lee Chong Wei can still only eat some soft things, such as porridge, noodles and the like, to barely maintain the needs of his physical skills.

Lee Chong Wei’s wife Huang Miaozhu also accompanied him for treatment in Taiwan and took care of his daily life.

Huang Miaozhu and Lee Chong Wei are called "golden girls" by the Malaysian media. Huang Miaozhu was also a badminton player.

On the field, they cheer each other up and are called each other's strongest support. In life, they are low-key and humble. They joined hands in a low-key manner in 2000, although they did not appear to the outside world to be arrogant. Show affection, but the relationship between each other is very long-lasting.

Since Li Zongwei became ill, Huang Miaozhu has tried her best to restrain herself and not cry in front of him. However, Li Zongwei knew that when he was hospitalized, Huang Miaozhu would cry every night. Although she didn't want to let herself know, Li Zongwei knew it well.

Because Lee Chong Wei and his family have the same considerations and do not want to make each other worry, they always cry silently when they are alone.

During the long period of treatment, Li Zongwei endured very hard. Sometimes, he would cry silently under the quilt at night. Sometimes, he would take the opportunity of taking a bath to cry happily in the bathroom. field.

When the shower water and tears ran across his face, the hero's grief was drowned in the sound of water.

Although he unfortunately suffered from nasopharyngeal cancer, there is a chance of cure. Lee Chong Wei also often thinks that he should not complain and beg too much to God. These thirty-three electrotherapy treatments, these tens of millions It is already a great gift to be able to exchange one's own life for a small amount of money.

After two months of treatment in Taiwan, Malaysian media reported that Lee Chong Wei has recovered from nasopharyngeal cancer.

After following the doctor's advice and staying in Taiwan for a while, Lee Chong Wei embarked on his return to China.

After returning to Malaysia to rest for a few months, Lee Chong Wei couldn't stay any longer. He packed up his racket and went straight to the training ground he was most familiar with.

Lee Chong Wei said that he felt that he was in pretty good condition at the time. Every time he performed strength training and running training, he would silently calculate in his head how long it would be until the Tokyo Olympics.

Lee Chong Wei hopes that he can persevere and stand in the Olympic men's badminton singles competition again, so he must be healthy now and keep himself in the best condition.

But Li Zongwei, who had not trained for several months, found it very difficult to practice. He limped home after practice every day and felt pain everywhere in his body.

A few months without exercise may seem like nothing to ordinary people, but for the world's top athletes, this is a very fatal thing.

Because the muscles of the body have contracted after several months of immobility, if they want to practice again, they will have to go through very painful torture in a short period of time, which is tantamount to being reborn.

Huang Miaozhu saw it, but could not say anything. When Li Zongwei came home, she tried to avoid him, because when she saw him being tortured by training, she wanted to shed tears and wanted him to Don't hold on any longer.

As an athlete, Huang Miaozhu knew the meaning of Li Zongwei's persistence, but as Li Zongwei's lover, she felt very painful and conflicted.

Knowing that Lee Chong Wei still has dreams to pursue, Huang Miaozhu can only suppress her heartache and quietly take care of their family, so that Lee Chong Wei has no worries and can train and compete with peace of mind.

Lee Chong Wei often asks his doctor when he will be given the green light to return to competition.

But the doctor always answered him in surprise: "There is no competition, what you need is a good rest."

The doctor "warned" Li Zongwei for the last time and told him that it is really When it was no longer suitable to compete, Lee Chong Wei finally realized that maybe it was time for him to bid his final farewell to badminton. For the sake of health, he had to give up.

On June 13, 2019, this legendary badminton player from Malaysia officially bid farewell to the badminton world.

But as a "newcomer" Li Zongwei, he is still on the road.

How to promote badminton and how to make the sport of badminton better and better has become Lee Chong Wei’s new career.

Just like he said, although he retired and no longer played, badminton has been integrated into his blood.

Accompanying his family, doing business, and leading the Malaysian national team to compete in the Tokyo Olympics have become Lee Chong Wei’s next tasks.

Lee Chong Wei is quite savvy in business. In addition to running a comprehensive arena, he also opened a real estate company with his brother, and the business is booming.

But in June 2021, Lee Chong Wei had to resign as head of the Malaysian delegation at the Tokyo Olympics due to recovery from nasopharyngeal cancer surgery.

Just as Lee Chong Wei recorded in his biography "The Loser Becomes King", even if it fails, the traces it leaves in life will be glorious marks.

When it comes to Li Zongwei, some people may only see the surface. He is the "number two" who lost to Lin Dan.

But Lee Chong Wei, from a young man in a small town to a national hero in Malaysia, his perseverance, his indomitable willpower, his fighting spirit, each of them deserves our respect. and admiration.

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