Life becomes too difficult for Lee Chong Wei after having an ankle injury ahead of London Olympics
Malaysia’s top player in Men’s Singles category, who is the only visible hope to bring country’s first gold medal in Olympics, is facing many problems as especially the slow recovery process of his injury that makes the life quite difficult for him.
Chong Wei, who has been remained consistent at the top position in Men’s Singles world ranking for a period of more than three years, got a severe injury in his right ankle while playing against the Danish shuttler Peter Hoeg Gade in a team-event match between
Malaysia and Denmark at the last month’s Thomas Cup Finals 2012 at Wuhan, China.
The Malaysian was taken to hospital immediately and found out that he tore his ligament and was sent back to home for proper treatment.
The recovery process of Chong Wei is in progress but he qualms over the slow progress and is still uncertain to live up to the expectations of his countless fans all over the world especially in Malaysia.
However, the huge expectations drive him on and he is doing light training and also consumes time in workouts at gym to maintain his strength.
The 29-year-old Chong Wei is the major threat to the power-packed line up of formidable Chinese shuttlers. Besides the top Malaysian, there is no other commendable player in the world of badminton who has a consistent record against the top players from
China.
While talking about his recovery from injury, Chong Wei said that it is quite challenging to spend half a day in the rehabilitation process.
He said, “It’s been tough spending 12 hours daily, from 7am till 7pm, on my rehabilitation. A lot depends on getting back to my old form and that means extra hard training.”
He further added, “I’m on court at 7.30 in the morning for light training before going for physiotherapy. Then I have aqua-therapy to work on my upper body strength. I also do gym work later in the evening. This has been my daily routine since the injury.”
Despite the ankle injury, Chong Wei is working hard to stretch him to the limit to maintain his fitness as much as possible as, according to him, there is not short cut to remain fit without putting in extra effort.
Chong Wei is doing every possible thing to recover from injury but at the same time he is not hundred percent sure whether he will be fully fit or not before the 2012 Olympics.
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