1 Yonhap News Agency said a Chinese coach of the Korean Table Tennis Association was accused of sexual misconduct before the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston and deported from the United States.
2 The Pohang Iron and Steel Club, where Tian Zhixi, a Chinese player who naturalized South Korea, hired a Chinese coach for him a few years ago.
3 At an international training event in China in January this year, the U.S. Table Tennis Association received allegations of sexual harassment against the Chinese coach.
4 A South Korean coach of POHANG Steel said that the Chinese coach involved firmly denied the allegations, and Zhang An did not ask the INTERNATIONAL Table Tennis Federation to carry out disciplinary action.
On December 26, Beijing time, South Korea's official news agency Yonhap News Agency exposed the fierce material of table tennis. Ahn Hongshuo, a journalist who often writes table tennis news, broke the news that before the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston last month, a Chinese coach of the South Korean table tennis team (actually the head coach of Tian Zhixi) was deported from the United States after being accused of sexual misconduct, and the coach failed to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships.
Just after the Yonhap News Agency issued this fierce report, Tian Zhixi announced on Chinese Weibo that the live broadcast scheduled for tonight was canceled because she was going to a meeting tonight.
The first left is the Chinese coach Zhang Chen hired by Pohang Iron and Steel Club for Tian Zhixi (because)
This report replaces the character with letters, which is specifically interpreted as - Tian Zhixi's Pohang Iron And Steel Club hired a Chinese coach for Tian Zhixi a few years ago, and after inquiring about this coach, his name is Zhang Chen.
The Korean Table Tennis Association considered Tian Zhixi's current status as a sister in Korean women's table tennis, allowing Zhao Chen to become the head coach of her national team, and the Chinese coach played with the South Korean national team at the last Asian Championships, that is, the 2019 Asian Championships in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
At the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Chen also accompanied the South Korean national team to Houston, but was immediately deported by the United States after arriving in Houston.
The Yonhap News Agency reported that the reason for Zhang Chen's deportation from the United States was that at an international training event held in China in January this year, the American Table Tennis Association received sexual harassment of their players, and the target of the accusation was Zhang Chen.
The time is January this year, and the venue is the Western International Training Center of the China Table Tennis Association in Jiulidi, Chengdu.
At that time, the Chinese table tennis team was training there for winter, and Tian Zhixi, Diaz, Du Kaixuan, Zhang An, Zheng Yijing, Zheng Jiaqi and other players from foreign associations had the honor of receiving a week-long training there.
This training of the "Table Tennis International Column" of the national table tennis was originally a good opportunity for international exchanges. But "internally" there was a problem, and the storm reached the Houston World Table Tennis Championships.
The details of the Korean media report are: "This event is a place where Chinese players and top masters from all over the world gather together and train together. In South Korea, only A players were invited. Player C, who attended the event, reported to the American Table Tennis Association that he was sexually harassed by Coach B at a private meeting during training.
As soon as the South Korean national team arrived in Houston, the U.S. Table Tennis Association sent an official letter. Coach B was asked to return home immediately and not to send him to international competitions in the future.
The American Table Tennis Association also informed the Korean Table Tennis Association that if Coach B did not leave the United States immediately, the Houston Police Department would file a judicial lawsuit against Coach B.
The Korean Table Tennis Association immediately asked Coach B to go through the departure procedures. Coach B underwent a new nucleic acid test and left the United States as soon as the results came out. In effect, this is deportation. ”
To interpret it, the A player is Tian Zhixi, and the B coach is Tian Zhixi's head coach Zhang Chen. Player C said he had been sexually harassed and reported to the American Table Tennis Association that it should obviously be Zhang An.
Yonhap News Agency reported that the Korean Table Tennis Association sent an official letter to Tian Zhixi and the POHANG Iron and Steel Club where the head coach Zhang Chen was located after the World Table Tennis Championships, informing them of the reasons for Zhang Chen's expulsion, but the local Table Tennis Club in South Korea did not report the matter to their company in time. To this day, the club has not taken any action against Coach B for more than a month.
A South Korean coach at Pohang Steel Club, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Yonhap news agencies that Coach B, also known as Zhang Chen, firmly denied the allegations. Player C (Zhang An) did not formally ask the ITTF to discipline the opponent.
The South Korean coach said he told Coach B that he would not be able to stay at the club if the relevant disciplinary action of the ITTF was issued in the future.
South Korean media said that Zhang Chen was actually only the exclusive coach of Tian Zhixi, but when the South Korean team went out to participate in international competitions, he was identified as the coach of the South Korean national team. (Meaning they felt that the sexual harassment storm had humiliated the South Korean table tennis team.) Kim Taek-so, executive director of the Korea Table Tennis Association, said: "I think the matter is very serious and I will re-investigate this incident to determine whether there is a need for further processing." ”