Life | The 45-year curse is broken, and my eyes are filled with tears

2022 World Badminton Championships Men's Doubles Final, in the second game, when the score was 20-14, my heartbeat was already over 130, and I was about to call an ambulance. Although I was in the air-conditioned room, my palms were sweating. People are hot.

When he saw Xie Dingfeng jumping up, he thought he was going to smash the ball, but it turned out to be a fake. He picked a light ball to the opponent's front court. Not only the audience was deceived, but the opponent was also deceived into not receiving the ball. When the ball hit the ground, Although I was watching the game on my mobile phone at work, I couldn't shout, but my eyes were filled with tears. I believe that many Malaysians feel the same as me.

The moment the ball hit the ground, it was announced that Malaysia had won the badminton world championship for the first time.

Malaysia's No. 1 Men's Doubles Xie Dingfeng/Su Weiyi defeated three-time world champion Indonesia's "Dad" duo Hendra and Ah Shan 21-19, 21-14, breaking the curse of Malaysia's 45-year history of no world championships .

At this moment, Malaysians are excited. A colleague said that when he was writing this news, his hands were shaking while typing on the keyboard with tears in his eyes. He knew how excited everyone was. When Xie Su won the championship, Malaysian heads of state, prime ministers, and politicians in the government and opposition all posted congratulations online, which also made headlines in various media, and became the first trending search on Twitter in Malaysia. Netizens are jokingly asking if the Prime Minister will have a holiday the next day to celebrate.

Maybe outsiders don't understand, just a world champion needs to be so happy and have a holiday to celebrate? It is not that Malaysia has not produced world champions. We have won world champions in diving, bowling, bicycles and squash, especially in squash. Malaysia also has a legendary ball queen Nicole, who has won 8 times. win the world championship.

However, the status of badminton as the national ball of Malaysia is different. Malaysia has won the Thomas Cup, the highest honor in the badminton team competition, five times, so it is known as the traditional five badminton powers in the world (Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Denmark, South Korea), and has also produced many masters, including three times. Li Zongwei, who won the Olympic silver medal, the open champion who won the soft-handed, and the world runner-up who also won many doubles.

Over the years, Malaysia has won the runner-up and third runner-up in the Olympic Games and World Championships too many times, but it has never won the world championship, which has led to people in some countries ridiculing that Malaysia is not worthy of the reputation of the world's badminton power.

As a national football loved by the whole people, Malaysians have been looking forward to the emergence of the first badminton world champion and Olympic gold medal.

Over the years, at the World Championships, Malaysia has entered the finals nine times, and every time they took the runner-up, Xie Su finally fulfilled the dream of the Malaysians for the tenth time.

The most important function of badminton as one of the national balls in Malaysia, in addition to having private badminton courts in all corners of Malaysia, so that all people love to play badminton, and the most important point is that it can unite the three major races of Malaysia (Malaysian). Chinese and Indians) movement, I think Malaysians agree.

Whenever there is a major competition, such as the Olympic Games or the Thomas Cup, when there are Malaysian players competing, you can see people from all ethnic groups in Malaysia gather in coffee shops, mamak stalls, homes, and of course the stadium to work together. Team Malaysia cheers, everyone is happy, regretful, and lost together, and everyone shouts Malaysia Boleh x3 (Malaysia Power) in unison.

Therefore, in Malaysia, badminton is not a single sport, a sport that competes for honor for Malaysia, but an important element that unites the whole people. So I know why Malaysians are so happy and concerned about winning the world championship this time!

And this world champion is the best gift on August 31st, Malaysia National Day and September 16th, Malaysia Day.