On the second day after winning the Beijing Olympic Games, a publishing house entrusted a friend to find me and asked if I would like to compile the stories of those years into a book?Without thinking too much, I declined.First, for me at the age of 25, writing a book and biography is too far away from me.Besides, I'm just hitting the highway in my life, so how can I start thinking about it? From the Beijing Olympic Games to today, another four years have passed in the blink of an eye.The profession of athletes, especially Chinese athletes, sometimes has to use how many four years to measure the length of your career.We are helpless, but we also respect and cherish it more.

From Beijing to London, 12304 kilometers.When London just fell into the night, the sky in Beijing was just getting brighter.For me, the distance from Beijing to London is four years.It's long and unbearable, and it makes you feel like you're racing against the clock. I have used my 12 years as a national player to prove that I am still the first choice of coaches in the three Olympics, and I am the Lin Dan who can make fans feel at ease. After 2008, I always had more expectations for my career.I won the seemingly impossible "Grand Slam" and became the most honored badminton player on the planet.My life has also become wider. There is no longer only badminton in my life, but also family and friends.When Xie Xingfang and I held hands for the 8th year, we made a promise to each other for the future.

After so many years of fighting in the arena, I have long learned what is not to be surprised.Men's singles has never lacked superstars at the king level. However, behind every seemingly one-on-one duel, there are too many emotions and legends condensed.I found that what I gained was not only the number of championship titles, but also the marks left by those people and things in my life. More than a year ago, I asked everyone's opinions on Weibo: If there is a book about Lin Dan, what should it be called?Later, I received a lot of enthusiastic replies, which gave me the motivation to share these stories with you.

In the end, because of the start of the Olympic points competition, the matter was shelved again.It was not until the eve of this year's London Olympic Games, with the help of friends from all walks of life, that this commemorative book now lying in your hands came into existence. Yes, I prefer to call it a "memory book".I don't want to preach from above, and I don't want people to take me as a model. The Creator has created different you and me, so there must be countless possibilities for success.I just hope that in the limited text, we commemorate the weal and woe we have gone through together.

I am just the son of an ordinary family with simple emotions. Like every "post-80s", I also love to watch "Doraemon" or Sakuragi Flower Road, love life, love all new trends, and occasionally feel a little nostalgic. Dai Viet often thinks about the meaning of life.One night when I was chatting with my friends about the fun of playing basketball when I was a child, I suddenly found that the protagonists in those stories are now scattered all over the place, and some have even left badminton.At a certain moment, I said: "Okay, I know, this book is called "Until the End of the World." Because they really existed and lived brilliantly, the years we walked together, those common memories, It will continue until the end of the world.

In the past so many years, you have witnessed every me in different periods on the field, and that is the real Lin Dan.Behind every hot game scene, there may be hidden cruelty unknown to the world; behind every championship trophy, there must be more failures and twists and turns.It is they who have taught me how to be a more authentic self after going through all the ups and downs.I also have sad, lost, misunderstood times, I am not a badminton alien with a body of steel. In my 12-year career as a national player, I have traveled all over the world, appearing in different arenas almost every month or even every week.I play the number one player in the Chinese badminton men's singles and the "Grand Slam" in the world badminton world.However, my stage should not be just a podium that is less than one square meter.

Over the years, the busy schedule, intensive training and competitions have given me little time to calm down and talk to myself and you who accompanied me all the way. You know, I sometimes tweet without punctuation because it's faster.But when I sat down and started to meet myself 10 or even 20 years ago in the time tunnel, the time suddenly slowed down and was frozen at a certain moment.What is intertwined in this scene is a history of struggle, and it is even more touching.If you like, I'm going to tell you slowly. I don't have gorgeous rhetoric, what I have is sincerity, frankness and calmness.This is also the most simple record of my feelings as a badminton player and a man who is about to reach his thirties.

Ever since I was a child, I have not been the "three good students" that the coach likes.But I told my mother: "It doesn't matter, the United States has Jordan, and China has Lin Dan." Life is like a game, even if you are not favored, you can achieve a reversal. It wasn't until I read Michael Jordan's autobiography "My World" a few years ago that I began to feel that it is not so much that God chose to give us a different mission, but that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.For the sport we love and the times we live in, we have a duty-bound responsibility.

There are too many rising stars in Chinese sports. They don't want to be the second Lin Dan, or the second Yao Ming, or the second Liu Xiang. They just want to be themselves.Yes, everyone is a unique and non-replicable "self". When the Chinese badminton team was training in Qingdao to prepare for the London Olympics, they often climbed Laoshan Mountain during physical training, which is not my best.Over the years, there are always new goals ahead of me, so there is not a day that I do not urge myself to climb up.Even if I stand on top of the world, there are only five words left in my heart—so what?

The splendor of life lies not in how tall you stand, but in the breadth of your life.Now, I also want to look at the scenery on my left and right, and even look back at the way I came from from different angles.And so I see you, the people in my life who cheer me up, cheer me up, or depress me and hurt me. As I'm thinking about saying this to you, the team doctor is "ravaging" every muscle in my body.The relaxation time after training is almost an hour or more every day, and sometimes the pain is so painful that I have to stop to catch my breath.Over the years, this body is what I know best. Because it is "Super Dan", it is also required to be as indestructible as an alien.

Compared with my whole life, my past years can only be regarded as a hasty moment, and I have only accomplished some things in the field of badminton.Now, let me just be Lin Dan and be myself.The young man who came out of the small county town of Longyan, Fujian, is as ordinary as you, and is writing the future.