Yesterday, the Chinese Olympic Organizing Committee summed up the achievements of our athletes in the World Championships, and the Olympic Organizing Committee summed it up in the article, "In 2021, China's athletes won 67 world championships in 16 events, namely: 7 swimming, 9 diving, 2 track and field, 5 badminton, 1 kayak still water, 1 track cycling, 1 fencing, 8 gymnastics, 3 trampolines, 1 rowing boat, 1 sailing (windsurfing), 6 shooting, 8 table tennis, 7 weightlifting, 2 freestyle skiing, There are 5 finses, including 54 Olympic world champions and 13 non-Olympic world champions. Swimming, athletics, track cycling, shooting, weightlifting, fin swimming events 8 people 4 teams 12 times 12 times to set 12 world records, including 5 Olympic 3 teams 8 times to set 8 world records, non-Olympic 3 people 1 team 4 times to set 4 world records. ”
From this passage, it is not difficult to see that China's sports industry has gained a lot in the past year, and the athletes have also overcome the impact of the epidemic, trained scientifically, worked hard, and won 67 world championships in the Tokyo Olympic Games and other major international competitions. Watching the five-star red flag rise again and again, not only athletes, but even spectators will have a sense of national pride.
In this report card, the traditional advantages of diving, gymnastics, table tennis, swimming and weightlifting are still the biggest winners, diving 9 gold medals, gymnastics and table tennis are 8 gold medals, swimming and weightlifting are 7. There are 8 gold medals written in table tennis, friends familiar with table tennis know that the Tokyo Olympic National Table Tennis won the women's singles, men's singles, women's team and men's 4 gold medals, plus the mixed doubles of the World Championships in Houston, USA in November, women's doubles, women's singles and women's singles four gold medals, the number of gold medals is exactly eight. The question is, what about Sun Yingsha's little Salsa's WTT World Cup? Did you miss it?
In fact, this may not be a leak, this is probably the WTT World Cup that people talked about last month is not the world's three major competitions, is there any difference between it and the traditional World Cup? Obviously, when the Olympic Organizing Committee counted the total results of the championship, Sun Yingsha Xiaosha's WTT World Cup women's singles champion and Fan Zhendong's WTT World Cup men's singles champion were not counted. This shows that the WTT World Cup is not officially recognized, treating it as a purely commercial event.
Why? Xiaobian Xinxi 6 feels that there are two reasons, one is the format, and the other is the points.
First of all, the World Cup of the traditional competition is world-wide, for example, Liu Shiwen has won the World Cup five times, Fan Zhendong is the four-time champion, and the World Cup competition adopts an invitation system, which uses the qualification mechanism of intercontinental distribution + world ranking. It can be said that it is of a worldwide nature, because it takes care of every continent or even every country or association.
However, the WTT World Cup, which is a reform event proposed by THE CEO of the International Table Tennis Federation, Denton, is to merge the traditional World Cup event with the Table Tennis Federation Finals, and invite athletes from various countries or associations ranked in the world's top sixteen to participate. Although it is also an invitation system, because the top sixteen players in the world are invited to participate in the competition, the athletes of the Americas and Oceania, which rank low, cannot participate. The participants are concentrated in Asia and Europe, so the WTT World Cup is still not a world series.
The second is the problem of points, the original traditional World Cup competition, the champion can get 2550 points, second only to the Olympic Games and the World Championships, and now the WTT World Cup champion points are only 1500, it can be seen that from the points is much less than the Olympic Games and the World Championships, it seems that it is not a grade.
With few points and no athletes from all over the world participating, it is clear that the Olympic Organizing Committee feels that this event is not too formal enough, so when the number of world champions is summarized, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha's WTT world champions have not been recognized.
But this is nothing, originally Sun Yingsha and Fan Zhendong never lacked strength, and there will be one after the World Championship singles champion. Besides, the WTT World Cup was originally a merger of the original World Cup and the Finals, and the original ITTF Finals champion was not counted in the three major events, so if you think about it, will the fans of Sasha and Fan Zhendong feel better? Do you think it's right for the Organising Committee not to see the WTT World Cup as a three-big thing?