On August 5, the penultimate day of competition for the Barcelona Olympics began.

The highlight of the day is that the major ball games will determine the final champion and runner-up.

The American Dream Team, led by Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, represented the American professional basketball team in the Olympic Games for the first time, and went all the way to the finals with a huge disparity.

Table tennis is not prominent among many ball sports, but it touches the heartstrings of the Chinese people the most.

This morning, the men's singles will have two semi-finals, and in the afternoon, the final champion will be determined to become the king of table tennis at the Olympic Games.

In the men's semi-finals, Europe occupies two places, Waldner and Geiting.

Asia occupies two seats, South Korea's Kim Cheol-joo and China's Ma Wenhua.

The semi-finals also happened to be two Eurasian matchups.

These two matches have been given extraordinary significance by the European and American media, and the four players not only represent their respective countries, but also represent the highest level of table tennis in the continent.

European and American reporters defined these two competitions in advance as the competition for the world center of table tennis and the location of the highest technical palace of table tennis.

In the first game, Kim Chol-joo faced off against Waldner.

Kim Cheol-joo is the youngest of the four players, so he has high hopes from the South Korean media, describing him as the youngest table tennis talent.

Representing South Korea at the Olympic Games at the age of 18, and now reaching the semifinals of the Olympic men's singles before the age of 20, Kim Cheol-joo does have the brilliant results of a young talent.

With the ambition to defeat Lu Ning and Wang Tao, Kim Cheol-joo challenges the man at the top of table tennis, Waldner.

It is inaccurate for Roscoff to be called an Asian expert, simply because he has a higher winning rate against Asian players than against Europeans.

The European who has slaughtered the most Asian players in various international tournaments is undoubtedly Waldner.

This game is also a game for Waldner to be a man.

What is the strongest thing in Asian table tennis, is the serve, attack, and the change of ball path and spin.

But these specialties, the European Waldner has done better than all the Asian players.

His weird half-occluded serve, the magician-like rhinoceros Mochizuki, and the ball under his armpits, flickered Kim Cheol-joo into a daze.

Although Kim Chol-joo was able to score some points with his continuous rushes, Waldner's mentality was extremely stable and did not seem to fluctuate.

He has a steady mentality and does not change, but the ball path and spin are more weird and changeable than Kim Cheol-joo, and he interprets every guerrilla captain to the extreme.

3:0, in the eyes of the outside world, the semi-final battle with close strength, under the strong control of Waldner, played a one-sided game.

The sad Kim Cheol-joo has once again gone from a super genius to a background picture of a strong man.

In the golden years of 20, Kim Cheol-joo only won two bronze medals in men's singles and men's doubles.

After the match between Kim Zhezhu and Waldner, the battle between Ma Wenhua and Gaiting, which is concerned by thousands of Chinese people, officially began.

Kong Zhendong still sat next to Mi Xingbang and Yin Xiao and other coaches in this game, but he was relatively silent.

In this game, Kong Zhendong couldn't come up with any good tactics.

Gaiting's full force is unreasonable play, although it is fierce and tyrannical, but it also has weaknesses, Kong Zhendong's tactics have also defeated Gaiting in doubles matches.

But that's because of the weaker connecting ring of Elova and the double-impact player of Wang Tao and Lu Ning.

Wang Tao is invincible in the fast attack and volley near Taiwan, Lu Ning is tall, has enough forehand strength, and Zhongyuan Taiwan can not fall behind in front of Gaiting.

It's a pity that Ma Wenhua doesn't have the strengths of Lu Ning and Wang Tao.

Ma Wenhua's match with Persson yesterday, although it was only three games, the consumption of mental energy that constantly changed was extraordinary.

And today, in the face of the European thug Gaiting, this is a passive battle with strength and ingenuity.

In the end, Ma Wenhua won the first game by virtue of the changes and sudden rush in the second game, but unfortunately it was short-lived, and in the end, Gaiting still won Ma Wenhua 3:1 and entered the final.

Although the Chinese audience has experienced a continuous trough in national table tennis in recent years, and the singles bronze medal is also expected, in the end, it was found that no one in the Chinese team was able to fight in the highest arena, and it was inevitable that they would panic.

Ma Wenhua, Wang Tao and Lu Ning are not young, and in the next Olympics, singles will definitely be younger players.

Thinking of his youth, the TV camera kept sweeping over the somewhat lonely Kong Zhendong, and the audience couldn't help but look forward to: Four years later, can Kong Zhendong bring us the Olympic champion in the United States?

In the afternoon, table tennis enthusiasts ushered in the final feast of table tennis in the Olympic Games.

In the men's singles final, Waldner faced off against Geiting.

Recognized as the world's first table tennis comprehensive technique and tactics, the ultimate battle against the unreasonable European style of play and the highest achievement of the fierce faction Gaiting.

In terms of international results and the record against the Eurasian masters, Waldner has an absolute advantage.

However, in the past seven or eight years, Waldner has lost all the way to Gaiting in major European arenas.

The reason why Waldner's most important European Championship title has not been won for more than ten years is that half of the matches fell to the ferocious shooting of Geiting.

Therefore, this duel has a bit of a fatalistic flavor.

I won all over the world, but I lost to you, and today I want to win!

I'm going to be so fast that I'm going to be said to be unreasonable, and now I'm going to beat you, who are considered the most reasonable!

Although this final has nothing to do with China's results, Kong Zhendong still sits on the sidelines seriously, enjoying this showdown of the century in the early nineties.

Sitting in the audience with him were most of the men's table tennis coaches, who also wanted to see with their own eyes what level the world's strongest table tennis showdown, the most advanced European technology and concept confrontation, had reached.

At the beginning of the game, Gaiting served quickly, and the third board came to the stage to attack.

In Kong Zhendong's view, this ball can be defined as a song of ice and fire.

Waldner is from the snowy Nordic Sweden, and the whole person's playing style is also calm and introverted, and the occasional magic ball is not lacking in the whimsical and unique romance of the Nordic mythological people.

Gaiting, from the passionate French coast, is ferocious, and on the seven emotions, it seems that every board is like fighting a tiger with all his might, a fatal blow.

Kong Zhendong is like a sponge, desperately absorbing the technical essence of the highest table tennis hall from this game.

Although he comes from more than 20 years later, the study of table tennis techniques in the 90s is definitely not the same as being on the field of action today.

Waldner and Gaiting, the culmination of the two technical schools, Kong Zhendong got his own direction of technological improvement in the future from their duels and adaptations, control and counter-control.

In the first two games, Waldner and Geiting each played tricks at the crucial points, winning one game each, and the third game began to decide where the balance of victory went.