Screenshot of the Yonhap report
Recently, the South Korean media revealed a sports scandal - according to the Yonhap News Agency reported on December 26, 2021, a Chinese coach who coached a South Korean athlete was deported last month during the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, USA, because he sexually harassed an American player in China earlier this year.
Although the full text does not indicate the name of the person concerned, but combined with the relevant information we can speculate that he should be the coach of the Korean women's table tennis "sister" Tian Zhixi, and the harassed American athlete should be Jang An, and this matter has also attracted the attention of the leader of the Korean Table Tennis Association and the former world champion Kim Taek-so, who said bluntly: I think the matter is very serious, and will investigate and judge whether further processing is necessary.
Kanazawa-so
According to the Yonhap News Agency, the cause and effect of this incident is as follows:
In January 2021, a South Korean athlete was invited to China for a training camp, and as a result, her coach harassed another American athlete who was also in China, and the matter was reported to the American Table Tennis Association. In November, when the South Korean player went to Houston to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, the coach also followed, and was expelled by the United States.
Since the only South Korean players invited by the Chinese Table Tennis Association to train at the beginning of this year are Tian Zhixi, and the American players are only Zhang An, the content of the entire article has been guessed by the outside world.
The first on the right is Tian Zhixi, and the third on the right is Zhang An
Friends who pay attention to table tennis know that after the resumption of the Table Tennis World Cup and the finals in China at the end of last year, 6 athletes from foreign associations stayed in the national table tennis team to participate in the table tennis super league and training, namely: Tian Zhixi (South Korea), Zhang An (United States), Diaz (Puerto Rico), Du Kaixuan (Hong Kong, China), Zheng Yijing (Chinese Taipei), Lin Yunru (Chinese Taipei).
But after the end of the Table Tennis Super League, Tian Zhixi took the lead in returning to South Korea, while several other athletes remained in China, which aroused everyone's suspicions at the time, and now it seems that it is likely to be related to the sexual harassment scandal, but no one knew about this series of events at the time.
Zhang An
After the Houston World Table Tennis Championships began, Tian Zhixi and Zhang An all participated in the game normally, no one paid attention to the affairs of the coaching staff, and the three parties of China, South Korea and the United States did not see relevant reports, so everyone was still unclear about the relevant matters. Until December 26, Yonhap News Agency directly published the matter in the news of the sports section, and then immediately attracted the attention of the table tennis circle.
Considering the status of Yonhap News Agency in the Korean press, it is unlikely that they made up a news out of thin air, but because we have only seen unilateral reports in South Korea at present, and the words are also flashy, we cannot restore the truth of the whole thing for the time being.
Tian Zhixi
Tian Zhixi and Zhang An are both Chinese table tennis players who are inextricably linked to the Chinese table tennis scene. In particular, the former used to play in China, unlike Zhang An, who belongs to the second generation of immigrants, so it is normal to hire Chinese coaches to coach themselves to train and play, but the more specific details are not clear.
At present, this matter has been fermented in China's table tennis circle, and Tian Zhixi himself also cancelled a live broadcast of his own network shortly after the Yonhap news agency posted, claiming that he was informed to go to a meeting, whether it is related to sexual harassment rumors We do not know, everything is still waiting for the latest news to come out!