(Beijing Comprehensive News) As Chinese sports set off a anti -corruption storm, Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, was re -elected, breaking the rumors that he had been taken away before.
According to the China Official Media People's Daily, the China Table Tennis Association held a member congress in Beijing on Thursday (April 6).Li Yingchuan, deputy director of the State General Administration of Sport of China, attended the meeting.
Liu Guoliang is the winner of the "Grand Slam" of the "Grand Slam" of the men's singles of the World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup and the Olympic Games. After retiring in 2002Coaches, until the 2017 team structure change canceled the head coach.
At that time, his duties changed, which caused Malone, Fan Zhendong, and Xu Xin to retire from the "Liu Guoliang incident" from the Chinese Table Tennis Open.Liu Guoliang apologized publicly through personal Weibo and temporarily left the table tennis.
Liu Guoliang "came back" in September 2018 and served as the leader of the China Table Tennis Association's exchange group. In December of the same year, he was elected chairman of the Ninth China Table Tennis Association.He is currently the chairman of the board of directors of the WTT World Table Tennis Federation and the first vice chairman of the FIFA.
At the end of March this year, Liu Guoliang's apprentice and the Chinese table tennis Olympic champion Zhang Jike were suspected of gambling debts, and used his ex -girlfriend's privacy to debt to the Chinese Internet.During the same period, it was also reported on the Internet that Liu Guoliang was taken away by the suspicion of playing counterfeit balls. However, rumors were quickly clarified by the ITTS Federation. Liu Guoliang was also interpreted as "no self -breaking".
