Sun Jun's online chatting record at China Sport (before the Olympics)
Backgroud: Sun Jun was injured and almost lost the chance to take part in Sydney Olympics.

1. About Olympics
Q: It is difficult for you to get the gold medal! Ah?
A: There still is hope left.
Q: No matter you attend the Olympics or not, we supposrt U!!!!
A: Thank you! I will do my best!
Q: What do you expect from the Olympics in your present state?
A: I think I have recovered to 50%. There is one month left, and I think I can succeed.
Q: Where do you train now? Next week there will be an Olympics warm-up match, will you attend?
A: In Beijing. I will be there.
Q: What is your objective in the Olympics?
A: Gold medal. Nothing but the gold medal.
Q: Will U cry if you can not make it?
A: I will not cry. I will do my best, and any results are acceptable.
Q: How do you plan to make you dream true?
A: I work hard every day and I feel better and better.
Q: Do you have much presure from your team?
A: Yeah, the presure if very high. Olympics is just before my eyes, and i am not in the level
I used to be. So I am very anxious.
Q:Sun Jun, Which country do you think is our main oppoent?
A: Indonesia, Denmark, Malaysia and Korea.
Q: Is Korea very strong?
A: right, Lee Hyung II and other players of Korea are good.
Q: When will you go to Sydney?
A: At the beginning of Sep.
Q: I only hope you to adjust to good form and take part in the Olympics. At that time try to releas the presure.
A: Thanks.
Q: Do U think Ge Fei and Gu Jun will win the gold medal? It seems that the Korea pair are very strong.
A: I think they will.
Q: Will U attend the Olympics teams final?
A: There are no team matches in the Olympics?
Q: The day before yesterday, Li Yongbo said that he had many choices in men's single players.
A: I am confident to myself.
Q: How many gold medals do you think we can get?
A: More than two.
Q: Which kind of match?
A: Women's matches have priority. And there are hope in Men's single and Mixed double.
Q: Do you attend the last Olympics? What is the result?
A: I attend and ranged 9th, lost to Allan Budi Kusuma of Indonesia.
Q: What do you think about men's double?
A: They make a lot of progress.
Q: Will you go to Sydney, after all?
A: It has not been decided.
Q: Which country has the strongest mixed double pair?
A: Korea.
Q: What kind of pose to celebrate if you win the gold medal? Crying?
A: I will have somebody design.
Q: I recomend you to break the recket and run to Ge Fei, giving her a big hug.
A: I will think about it.
Q: Of course, if your parents are there, you should first embrace them, how about that? If you adopt my advice, I will go

to sydney to watch the match.
A: Then you go there.
Q: If there is only one gold medal you and Ge Fei can win, who do you wish to get?
A: half by each one.

2. About Ge Fei
Q: Ge Fei should be in good form recently, does not she?
A: Yes, she is in good condition. But she will be tired as she will attend two kind of matches.
Q: What do you think Ge Fei attract you?
A: She is pretty, tender and considerate.
Q: When will you get married?
A: We have not thought about it.
Q: Ge Fei must be anxious about your injury.
A: Right.
Q: You and Ge Fei's story is wonderful in the badminton world. Bless you! Right, do you have a
time table of your's personal affair?
A: Not yet. The most important thing now is the Olympics.
Q: It seems that Ge Fei is introversive. What kind of person do you think Ge Fei is? Sun Jun comment, please.
A: She is not introversive when she is with me.
Q: If Ge Fei got the championp, and you got nothing, will you loss balance of your mind?
A: I will not. If she win the champoinship, I will be happy for her.
Q: It was said that she want to retire after her father died.
A: Right.
Q: How did she change her mind?
A: First, her mother persuaded her. And the leader of her city, province persuaded her.
Q: Are Ge Fei and Gu Jun still parteners now?
A: Right.
Q: Why Ge Fei like you?
A: You should ask her.
Q: With whom Ge Fei has good relationship in your team except you?
A: Qin Yiyuan, and Lu Ying and others.
Q: They are in good relation with you too, am I right?
A: You are right.
Q: Does that means she is not in good relation with Gu Jun?
A: Not bad.
Q: Is Ge Fei in good relation with Gu Jun? Do they have controversies?
A: They did have controversies. But since they are for the same objective, they will let it be after that.
Q: Do you have embarrassment like love in office? For example, will you take it to the training afer you have a quarrel?
A: No, we do not quarrel usually.
Q: Who's advice will you adopt when there is trouble, your coach, Ge Fei? Or you settle it by yourself? And how many is

the percentage?
A: Whoever is right, I will adopt his advice.
Q: If you are away from home for a long time, who you will miss most? Your wife or your parents?
A: Both.
Q: Who's song does Ge Fei like most? Do not tell me it is yours.
A: How do you know that?
Q: Do you remember who said the first word, you or she? I mean when you are very yong.
A: I do not remember.
Q: When make it clear by words first when you and Ge Fei is in love? Must answer!!!!!!!!
A: I do it. But we both know it.
Q: Who will win if you use your left hand and Ge Fei use her right hand?
A: Surely right hand is better.
Q: Ge Fei and Liu Yong are a pair in the double, are you jealous?
A: I am not.
Q: Do not coaches against when you and Ge Fei are in love?
A: They surely do. But we have consciousness, we will not let it affect our training and matching.
Q: Are there any lovers in your team like you and Ge Fei?
A: Yes, there are.
Q: How do you want the wedding to be, Chinese style or western style?
A: Whichever is ceremonious.
Q: Does love make you more powerful at matches?
A: It is too powerful!
Q: Will you be expelled if you can not get good match results because of in love with teammate?
A: Maybe.
Q: Can you list two of your merits and one drawback on behalf of Ge Fei?
A: I have no drawback in Ge Fei's eys, full of merits.
Q: Does Ge Fei's mother come today? How long does you acommpany your future mother-in-law?
A: Because I come to see you, I have no time.
Q: Have you ever played mixed double with Ge Fei?
A: Yes, we played once in the Asia badminton champoinships. We were the runer-up.
Q: Is Ge Fei online tonight at home? So you choose whatever she love to hear? I mean in her dorm.
A: No, I am what I am.
Q: How about Ge Fei's cooking?
A: Ge Fei's mom is good at cooking.
Q: Ge Feis can not cook?
A: She can. The point is will you eat it.
Q: It seems that you should employ a chef. How about me?
A: You must give me menu first.
Q: Man Han Quan Xi. (famous Chinese food, difficult to make)
A: I can not eat that much.
Q: Who will do the household work?
A: There is no household work.

3. About Sun Jun himself
Q: Sun Jun, why does everybody call you monkey?
A: I am thin and small when I was young, and besides, my surname is Sun. (same as Sun Wukong,the famous monkey in a Chinese

tale)
Q: What do you like besides practise at your spare time?
A: Watch videos. I like Action movies.
Q: Why you wear so garish today?
A: I think today is very important.
Q: What is your plan after the Olympics?
A: I will go to an university.
Q: I have thought you will tell us first that you will get married with Ge Fei!!
Q: Which university do you plan to go?
A: I want to go to Nanjing University because I am from Nanjing. I have no idea to learn what.
Q: Will Ge Fei go to an university? If she will, will you choose the same university?
A: She Want to. I think we will be together.
Q: Like birds? ( I do not know how to translate, the meaning is being together.)
A: It is just our present plan. If I play well in the Olympics and our country need me, I would like to do more to our

country.
Q: I think you have lost weight a lot.
A: right.
Q: Will you settle down abroad?
A: I will not. I think it is better in China.
Q: When do you think you are in your best form?
A: Last year. (1999)
Q: Right, How old ar you, Sun Jun?
A: 25.
Q: Do you have much income?
A: A lot much less than football team.
Q: Did you watch yesterday's football match? Are you a football fan?
A: NO, I am not.
Q: Can you introduce us something about your family? How do you participate in badminton?
A: There are grandfather,grandmother, parents, and younger brother in my family. I was chosen by a teacher in school and

sent to amateur sprorts school.
Q: Does your brother play badminton?
A: He does not.
Q: Why Ge Fei's partner is Liu Yong other than you?
A: Because I am single player, and can not play double at the same time, otherwise I will be exhausted.
Q: Do you have the same matching fee with others when you take part in the Chanllenge Match?
A: Same.
Q: What do you like to do after training? Do you have spare time?
A: I only want to rest after training.
Q: Do you all live together?
A: Yeah, We all live together, the whole team.
Q: Where can I meet you?
A: Beijing, Ti Yu Guan Road 2.
Q: I respect your willpower very much! There is one match I watch you through TV, the mucles on your thigh have been

distorted, but you still insist.
A: Thanks. It hurts a lot.
Q: Do you have social intercourse every day?
A: No.
Q: Will you be a coach after you retire?
A: Maybe.
Q: What about your cheating action?
A: My cheating action will cheat.
Q: Do you have other nickname but....
A: No. Monkey is not a nickname of mocking, it is a nickname of love.
Q: Your Email address?
A: I have not.
Q: You Will not tell others your mobile phone number usually?
A: That is true. The mobile phone fee is so expensive.
Q: Do you have same arm sizes?
A: No. The right arm is larger than the left.
Q: If you play with Ge Fei and Gu Jun, can you defeat them?
A: I can not. No body can defeau four fists.
Q: What kind of friend do you like, not women? I would like to know if I can be your friend.
A: with code of brotherhood.
Q: What do you like except playing badminton?
A: Watching videos and playing game.
Q: How could fans contact you?
A: Beijing Ti Yu Guan Road 2, China Badminton Team
Q: Do you like children?
A: I like.
Q: What is your killing weapon?
A: Changing speed attack.
Q: How about your tennis skill and table tennis skill?
A: I am good at table tennis.
Q: I think if Liu Guoliang plays badminton with you, he can not sore even 1 point. What will
happen if you play table tennis with him?
A: I think I am better that him.
Q: Which city do you like most?
A: I like my hometown, Nanjing.
Q: What color do you like? And what color does Ge Fei like?
A: We both like vivid colors.
Q: Now I know why you wear so garishly.
Q: If you retired, which city do you want to go most, and what do want to do?
A: I want to go all those famous city after I retire. Just relax and have a vocation.
Q: Do your parents often come to see you? What do they do?
A: They came once. My mother retired, and my father is a worker.
Q: Do you miss your family? What will you do then? Do your parents know that you are injured?
A: I came out when I am very young. So I am used to be this conditoin. Usually I will not tell them that I am injured.
Q: Have you ever made an advisement?
A: No.
Q: Do you have any plan after the Olympics?
A: Not yet, the most important thing now is the Olympics.
Q: Why do not you choose to play mixed double, so you can play with Ge Fei?
A: Men's single presents the highest level of badminton. I want to be the best.
Q: We hope you can come back chatting with Ge Fei, taking your gold medals after the Olympics.
A: I would like to.
Q: Will you come if you do not win the gold medal?
A: Would you still like to chat with me if I do not get the gold medal?
Q: Which player are you afraid of most?
A: I am not afraid of anyone if I am in good condition.
Q: Can you tell me the most convenient, fastest and best contact way? Must anser!!!
A: Come to Chinese team to find me.
Q: Does your foot get better?
A: It is getting better now.
Q: Do you like to eat shrimp?
A: I like to eat. I will want to eat shimp if I do not for several days.
Q: I hope you will never get hurt again.
A: Thanks! I will take care.

4. Training
Q: You must be in bad mood after injury?
A: Can not be worse!
Q: How do you adjust?
A: Training hard, Watch more match videos of past time, and research technique and strategies more often!
Q: hello, what brand is your racket? YY?
A: YY Boton 2. They do not produce it any more.
Q: What brand of racket has the highest performance and price ratio?
A: Now our country and many other countries use YY.
Q: What? Oh? What do you use since they stop to porduce?
A: I use those left by Zhao Jianhua.
Q: I have problem with backhand skill. I want to ask Sun Jun how to impove quickly?
A: Practise more often. Practise.
Q: I think you have passed your golden era, what do yo think?
A: I do no think so. After these two day's training, I think I can have a second golden era.
Q: Is your racket very expensive?
A: They are not sold on market. I do not know the price.
Q: Are those YY rackets which are one thousand Yuan each on the market specially made for the national team?
A: They should be since they are so expensive.
Q: Why I always do not know how to smash.
A: That is because I have not taught you.
Q: When can I learn with you?
A: Come to Beijing.
Q: Can I buy those shuttles of your matches on the market?
A: Sure.
Q: It seems that you seldom train recently? Is that true?
A: That is bacause I am injured.
Q: Where will you train next month?
A: Beijing.
Q: How long can you run in 12 minutes?
A: More than 3000 meters.
Q: How do you feel about your recent traininig?
A: I am very satisfied with myself.
Q: How about the team recently? Is there anybody hurt?
A: Injury, very often, especially waist and knee.
Q: How high can you touch?
A: I do not wear right shoes. I can tell you after training next monday.
Q: What is the key of net play?
A: exquisite.
Q: It is said that Chinese team is not good at net, then how to make it?
A: China are not bad at net play. If you want to be good at it, you must have enough time to practise.
Q: Now there is more little news of you on newspaper, maybe it is because your level is down.
How do you think of your present state?
A: I will become better and better. I can train now.
Q: I have been your place and watching you training?
A: How do you feel?
Q: I think you should open your training to us? I feel that it is too hot there, having no cooling machine.
A: It will not be so comfortable if you want the gold medal.

5. Teammates and opponents
Q: How do you think the younger players, especially Xia Xuanze?
A: He is frank, training hard. I believe that he will succeed.
Q: Sun Jun, how about Dong Jiong now? You tell us.
A: Dong Jiong is not in the national team. He has gone back to Beijing team. We have not met each other for a long time.
Q: Dong Jiong will not play on behalf of China?
A: Right now.
Q: Who do you think will be the best in the young players of national team?
A: Xia Xuanze.
Q: How much Peter Gade get in that trip in Nan Ning? Do you know?
A: 15,000 US $.
Q: Do you think Taufik is the future Peter Gade?
A: I do not think so. I think he is not so all-around as Gade, they are different kind of players.
Q: What do you think about the mixed double pair of Ge Fei and Liu Yong?
A: What can I say?
Q: How do you feel about Xiong Guobao? What he is doing now? Do you know that?
A: Xiong Guobao, I do not know what he is doing now.
Q: Who is your best friend in the national team?
A: I am in good relation with them all.
Q: How do you think about Xia Xuanze and Ji Xinpeng? I think there is little chance for them
to win the gold medal, do not you think so?
A: They have much energy this year, but they are not experienced enough.
Q: Which player of past time do you like most?
A: Zhao Jianha because he is very handsome when playing.
Q: I think Chinese national team has made great achievements in recent years. How do you think in the future?
A: I think they will continue win.
Q: Who lived in the same room with Dong Jiong?
A: Xiao Hui, used to be.
Q: I heared that Zhao's Cheating action is fabulous?
A: That is right.
Q: Who do you appreciate in the now days badminton world?
A: Peter Gade.
Q: How do you go along with Peter Gade.
A: We go along well except that we can not communicate.
Q: Who is your best friend in table tennis team?
A: Liu Guoliang.
Q: If now is the Olympics final, you vs Gade, are you confident?
A: Not now, but after a month it will be different.
Q: Where is Chen Gang? Is he still in the national team?
A: Yes.
Q: Who do you think is your most dangerous opponent? In our country or other countries?
A: I think he should be in our team. Because we train together, the opponent is familiar with
my route and my strategy.

6. Others
Q: I heared that there are many wonderful foods in Nanjing?
A: Salt Duck and others.
Q: Will you attend the Malaysia Open?
A: I will.
Q: Do you have a computer?
A: I don't.
Q: One question, what do yo think is the most important of badminton?
A: Confidence.
Q: I heard that there is always rich people inviting you to play golf, it that true?
A: That is not true. I do not play golf.
Q: Why do not you come to Hainan to match?
A: It is decided by the team.
Q: Are you now in Beijing? I am in Changchun, why do not you come here?
A: I am in Beijing. Because there is no match holding there.
Q: Why you seldom make exhibition game?
A: Maybe the audience will not accept. Last time I and Ge Fei had a match with Gade and Martin,
that is an exhibition game. The audience can not accept, they thought we are cheating and required the return of their

money.
Q: Then if one day I meet you, can i take a photo with you?
A: Of course, not matter how many you take.
Q: How much will i cost if I go your place to play?
A: 40 yuan per hour with wood floor,and 50 yuan per hour with carpet.
Q: Are you confident in the Malaysia Open?
A: I am.
Q: How do you prodict the probability of your winning of Malaysia Open?
A: 70 percent.
Q: Which part of Nanjing is best? I want to have a trip there.
A: Zhong Shan mausoleum.
Q: Do you always surf the Internet?
A: Rarely.
Q: Why? You are busy training?
A: right.
Q: I heard it is your first time to come here chatting, how do you feel?
A: Time passes so quickly.

A: Thanks for your support. Bless you!