Recently, it was announced on social media that the State General Administration of Sport selected the "Top Ten Outstanding Figures of Chinese Sports in 2021", and Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu of the Chinese table tennis team were successfully selected. The ten athletes are: Quan Hongchan, Su Bingtian, Gu Ailing, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Yang Qian, Gong Lijiao, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, guan Chenchen. With a total of ten places, the national table tennis accounted for four people, becoming the biggest winner.
This list is a bit confusing, and it feels like the top ten outstanding people at the national level seem to be missing something. However, Tencent and other media do have this news, but other mainstream websites such as the State General Administration of Sport and the official website of the China Table Tennis Association have not seen it. And 2021 is the Olympic Games, the Olympic Games have China's various sports have the best, a total of only 10 places, to give the national table tennis nearly half of this is not reasonable.
In addition, the focus of table tennis fans' discussion is that Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion Chen Meng was not selected for this list. If this list is true, then this is a good explanation. Chen Meng was selected as one of the "Top Ten People in Chinese Sports in 2020" together with Liu Guoliang last year, so it is impossible to give this extremely high honor to Chen Meng for two consecutive years, and it is reasonable that he was not selected.
"Top Ten Figures in Chinese Sports in 2020" is one of the Top Ten Figures in Chinese Sports selected by the Sports Department of Xinhua News Agency. The actual number is well over ten. They are:
1. Sui Wenjing / Han Cong (female, 25 years old / male, 28 years old, figure skating)
2. Gu Ailing (female, 17 years old, freestyle skiing)
3. Chinese women's basketball team
4. Chen Meng (female, 26 years old, table tennis)
5. Zhang Weili (female, 30 years old, mixed martial arts)
6. Ke Jie (male, 23 years old, Go)
7. Chinese mountaineering team
8. Liu Guoliang (male, 44 years old, table tennis)
9. Xu Jiayu, Yan Zibei, Zhang Yufei, Yang Junxuan (swimming)
10. Ju Wenjun (female, 29 years old, chess).
Whether this list is true or not, it can well represent the supremacy of the Chinese table tennis team. In today's table tennis world, Ma Long is still not old, and will continue to write a table tennis legend; and Fan Zhendong has successfully carried the national table tennis banner passed by Ma Long, and the position of the world's first is impenetrable; Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, the new "twin stars" of women's table tennis, have blown up the youth storm again and again in the 2021 table tennis arena and staged a wonderful peak showdown.
Whether the "Top Ten Outstanding Figures in Chinese Sports" is equivalent to the "Top Ten Figures in Chinese Sports" needs further confirmation by the authorities. It is expected that the Sports Department of Xinhua News Agency will certainly release a list that will convince everyone by December 31, 2021.