Chen Meng and Fan Zhendong's withdrawal from the world rankings has once again become a joke. First, Liu Guoliang responded directly to this matter: regarding whether Chen Meng, Ma Long, and Fan Zhendong can still participate in international competitions in the future? Liu Guoliang stated that based on their contributions to the national table tennis team, they can always participate in competitions with a wild card qualification.
It can be said that this move is really too harsh, meaning that when the national table tennis team needs you to participate in the competition, you must come. Not coming is an expression of not loving your country. The country has invested so many resources in training you, but you do not put the honor of the country first. On the other hand, the national table tennis team has already agreed to the applications of the three, which means that the three no longer have a world ranking. When they want to participate in competitions themselves, the national table tennis team may not give them the opportunity. Therefore, Liu Guoliang's move is invincible, completely controlling the athletes.
Due to the huge network public opinion caused by this incident, both WTT and the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) have now posted articles to shift responsibility onto each other. First, the official WTT account posted that the ITTF has established a special working group responsible for collecting feedback from athletes and reviewing existing regulations. They will hold a player forum at the end of the month during the WTT Singapore Grand Slam to provide an open platform for raising concerns. At the same time, the ITTF posted that WTT has promised to support the work of the ITTF. After both official accounts posted such statements at the same time, does it give the impression that both accounts are run by the same person?
It seems that the staff also realized the problem and immediately deleted the two statements. Judging from this point alone, the entire international table tennis arena seems to be controlled by one organization or individual, leaving no credibility whatsoever. Even if there is now a re-examination of the rationality of the rules, the rule-makers will never admit that the rules they have formulated are unreasonable. Due to excessive concentration of power at the top, this investigation will ultimately just go through the motions and end up unresolved. What do you think about this?
