On July 20, 2004, the Chinese sports delegation for the Athens Olympic Games was established.
Careful people have noticed that Liu Guoliang, an outstanding Chinese table tennis player and Grand Slam player, is actually not in the list, while his doubles matchmaker Kong Linghui, known as the Twin Star, is in the list, but only participates in doubles matches.
The Chinese sports delegation actually gave up such excellent players, which makes people have to admire the strength of the Chinese table tennis team, but no one can imagine that in the Athens Olympic Games, China's Wang Hao lost to South Korea's Liu Chengmin in the men's singles final and lost the Olympic men's singles gold medal.
Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui
For some sports, runner-up also means success, or even great success, but for the Chinese table tennis team, runner-up is also a failure, and it is the biggest failure.
In this Athens Olympics, China sent three young inexperienced Ma Lin, Wang Liqin and Wang Hao to participate in the olympic games, and did not arrange experienced veterans, and finally lost the gold medal, is it because of the light enemy?
No, not a light enemy, but a necessity, all because of a man, because of his so-called reforms!
This man is Adam Shaara, the sixth president of the ITTF.
Adamu Shaaraqi
Adamu Sharala, an Ethiopian-Canadian, was born in Cairo and was a talent for table tennis.
Sharala began playing at the age of ten, and his hard work and wisdom led to a rise in his results.
At the age of nineteen, he became a member of the Canadian national team, and at the age of twenty-five, he became the coach of the national team, leading the Canadian team in the Western Expedition in the world table tennis arena.
In addition to the battle, Sharala actively participated in the work of the Canadian Table Tennis Association and became the executive president of the Canadian Table Tennis Association after showing her prominence.
In 1988, he was elected as a member of the North American Council of the International Table Tennis Federation and officially entered the world stage.
In 1995, Sharala became the First Vice-President of the Ittf.
In 1999, Sharala was elected as the sixth president of the International Table Tennis Federation and was re-elected until 2014.
On 1 September 2014, Sharala officially announced the end of her presidency as Chairman of the ITTF Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.
After Shaarra stepped down as president, the successor president and the media spoke highly of him:
1. After the London 2012 Olympic Games, the ITTF received support from the Higher Olympic Fund.
2. The main event is broadcast live in 110 countries around the world.
3. Have the third most followers in all sports associations on social media.
4. At this stage, more than 75 events are held worldwide every year.
5. It has 220 member associations, ranking first among all sports associations.
These achievements were accomplished during the term of President Sharala, who can be said to have retired from office and will always be loved and thanked by all table tennis participants and lovers around the world, and should applaud his retirement.
However, on 15 March 2019, the News stunned everyone and the Executive Committee of the International Table Tennis Federation confirmed the suspension of all activities within the ITTF and related to the Itting Federation for a period of four years, with the former President and current Honorary President of the ITTF, Mr. Adam Shaara.
It was a punishment too shocking to believe, and those who heard the news rushed to tell it.
Good people really can't believe how Mr. Sharala, who has worked hard for the prosperity of the ping-pong movement and has worked day and night, behind his back, is a bad man who acts badly and despises the Olympic Charter, and how can a wise man who has come up with various reforms for the sake of the long-term prosperity of the ping-pong movement and has come up with various reforms to better adapt to today's society be an immoral person who connived at his relatives and individuals to profit from the International Army Federation?
Adamu Sharala (right)
However, this is indeed true.
The ITTF Executive Board received an email reporting that Chairman Sharala had repeatedly abused his power for personal gain, unfair market competition, and corruption, with a statistical amount of as much as $20 million.
After a careful investigation by the Executive Committee of the World Table Tennis Federation and the prosecutors, it was finally confirmed that the allegations listed in the email were entirely true, and that Mr. Sharala had violated the laws by violating the REGULATIONS regulations and his own ethical standards during his tenure as president of the ITTF.
The news was confirmed, and many people lamented it.
The allegations were confirmed as fact, and the World Table Tennis Federation confirmed that the former president of Sharala was banned from participating in all ITTF-related activities for four years,
Although the law should be pronounced by the court, the career of Sharala's former president also ended.
Once mighty, as the chairman of the Table Tennis Federation for fifteen years, he should have lived a retirement life with unlimited scenery, who could have expected it, but in the end, he was insecure, discredited, and became the object of thousands of people's rebuke and scolding.
It's truly breathtaking.
Throughout Sharala's fifteen-year presidency, in addition to the immoral behavior listed in the email, he has made many reforms aimed at suppressing the Chinese team and breaking the monopoly of the Chinese on table tennis.
Adamu Shaara (left)
Reform and harm
Since rong guotuan won the first world championship, the Chinese men's and women's table tennis team has been standing at the top of the world table tennis world, even if there are one or two geniuses in Europe and Asian countries by chance, they can only shake the tip of the pyramid slightly, but the foundation cannot be shaken.
Sharala was once an excellent table tennis player, and the disciples he trained in Canada and the Americas have also been mighty and successful, but the chinese team's opponents do not see the big name of President Sharala.
From this, it can be seen that the excellent word of President Sharala should be put in quotation marks.
The Chinese team won the cup
Soldiers who don't want to be marshals are not good soldiers, and athletes who don't want to be champions are not good athletes.
Chairman Sharala must also want to become a champion, to reach the top of the world, it can be imagined that at the end of every day of training, he lies in bed, thinking about his ambitions, thinking about his opponents, thinking about the Outstanding Pre-net technology of the Chinese team, the fierce smashing, the ghostly pace, the unpredictable serve, The President of Sharala must be a burst of fear, he knows that his skills really cannot catch up with the Chinese team, to paraphrase the words in the martial arts novel, you practice for another twenty years, maybe you can see you.
However, the east is not bright, the west is bright, the south is dark, there is a north, I can't beat you on the field, I can suppress you elsewhere.
So Mr. Sharala's ingenuity was brought into play outside the arena, starting with the Canadian Table Tennis Association, rising step by step, until he sat on the throne of the President of the International Table Tennis Federation, sat for fifteen years, and made many reforms to table tennis in fifteen years.
In the process of reform, whenever someone pointed out the shortcomings of the reform, President Sharala always made a sad and compassionate gesture, saying that the Chinese team won too many championships, the audience for table tennis competitions was too small, and if it continued, the International Olympic Committee would expel table tennis from the Olympic Games.
In a word, the Chinese team is too strong, so strong that others are unwilling to play, and if it continues, the sport will not be able to stay in the Olympic family. What to do, can only reform, let everyone's level be consistent, let everyone play together.
There are two ways to make the level consistent, one is to let the backward catch up with the advanced, and the other is to use various methods to suppress the advanced, so that he slows down the pace of progress, or even difficult to move forward, until the backward catches up.
The normal idea is to choose the first, but unfortunately, President Sharala adopted the second idea and carried out the following reforms:
1. Each association has only two members of the team participating in the Olympic Games.
Chairman Sharala's excuse is that there are too many masters of the Chinese team, and it is completely possible to form a group advantage in the game, even if one or two team members lose their hands, other team members will ensure that the gold medal is not lost. Reduce the number of Participants in the Chinese team, just by defeating these two players, other teams can steal the gold medal, that is, the world will fight China.
2. The diameter of the table tennis ball has been increased from 38 mm to 40 mm.
Chairman Sharala said that the increase in the diameter of the table tennis ball can allow the audience to see the route of the ball clearly and enhance the ornamentation. As we all know, Europe plays in strength, the Chinese team plays in a flexible way, the ball diameter increases, and has no impact on the European team, but it just restrains the arc of the Chinese team, so that the advantages of the Chinese team are greatly reduced.
3. The single-round format was changed from 20 points to 11 points
The purpose is to reduce the continuity of the game and increase the contingency of the game, the purpose is of course self-evident.
4. Serve without blocking
Even the serve posture has to be managed, which is really deceiving.
5. Use inorganic glue (glue prohibition order)
The aim, of course, is to reduce the Chinese team's advantage in the racket.
All kinds of bizarre reforms have stunned the world, but President Sharala believes that these reforms are correct, must be implemented, and are to save the game of table tennis, but the real purpose of these reforms is to suppress Chinese.
President Sharala's reforms were effective, and China's best player Liu Guoliang could not adapt to the big ball game and had to retire, just three years after he won the Grand Slam.
His equally good partner Kong Linghui, although he competed in the Athens Olympics, could only participate in doubles, and lost to his teammates in the semi-finals, ending his sports career with an unsatisfactory end.
Three young players of the Chinese team competed in the men's singles field of the Athens Olympic Games, and the field was full of dangers, and in the end, the Chinese team Wang Hao lost to South Korea's Yoo Seung-min and won the silver medal.
Chairman Sharala must have been overjoyed to see this, and his plan had finally succeeded, Chinese was no longer a standout on the field.
However, with oppression, there will be resistance, and Chairman Sharala's ruse can only succeed for a while, and the Chinese team did not collapse, but soon sounded the clarion call of counterattack.
The Chinese team ranked second and third
Counter and brilliant
After the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the Chinese team tried to be brave and then made another brilliant achievement at the 2005 Shanghai World Championships: the Chinese team included the men's and women's team championships, the men's and women's singles champions, the men's and women's doubles champions and the mixed doubles champions, and never let a single laurel fall by the wayside, once again winning all the championships.
The Chinese team at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games continued to shine, and in one day, the audience heard the march of the volunteers four times, and saw two three five-star red flags rising, which was really a moment in history, and President Sharala could only make a weak cry.
At the end of the award, the three Chinese men's team players all hung their gold medals on the neck of head coach Liu Guoliang, and "this fat man who didn't know the ball" directed his disciples to shine on the field, but as soon as he heard Sharala's name, he had a headache.
Liu Guoliang (second from right) with Xu Xin, Ma Long and Zhang Jike
In 2012, there were four gold medals, and the Chinese team won two silver medals.
In 2016, there were a total of four gold medals, and the Chinese team won two silver medals.
At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in Japan, one piece of five gold medals, the Chinese team won four pieces and won three silver medals.
Japan's home combat is only a tiger's mouth, taking a gold medal from the hands of the Chinese team, and Japanese netizens lamented that this gold medal was given to Japan by China.
The feeling of pity is too uncomfortable, can the departed president Sharala understand the pain in the hearts of the Japanese team?
If a certain person or a certain team knows that his gold medal is not victorious, or even someone else's handout, can he still get the congratulations of the audience and taste the joy of victory?
I don't deserve it!
Chairman Sharala wants China to hand over his secrets and let other countries follow the gourd, but can the chinese table tennis team's strong way other countries simply learn it?
Table tennis in China
Table tennis in China has a lofty, mythical status like football in Brazil, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other revolutionaries of the older generation are fans of table tennis, and once used small balls to promote the world, directed a shocking table tennis diplomacy.
Table tennis in the folk is a sport respected by the whole nation, perhaps an elderly person, a child who has just gone to school to show skills may make foreign players ashamed, even if it is a short class break, there will be children to put together the desk to play two beats.
Table tennis has a broad folk foundation in China, which is the basis for the long-term prosperity of table tennis in China, not relying on the secret of someone's imagination.
To make a comparison, in terms of football, China is far inferior to Brazil, sichuan Quanxing Mamelo once made a single-rider feat in the Chinese Football League, which made the audience sigh.
And Mamero is just a football enthusiast in Brazil, not a professional athlete at all, nothing at all in Brazil, even thousands of people who are higher than him.
The football gap between China and Brazil is so big, and the gap between China and the world is also so big.
Mamero
The spirit of the Olympic Games is faster, higher and stronger, can not only emphasize the emphasis on participation, in the field of competition, to win, to compete, rather than hiding behind the ropes to fight slowly, fight for weakness, then it violates the Olympic spirit, even if it is exaggerated, it is also unconsciously exposed under the cover of words "small".
Yes, there should be a series of rules on the field of competition, but the purpose of the rules cannot be to restrict the play of a certain person or a certain group, which is contrary to the spirit of the Olympic Games, faster and stronger.
For example, the level of men's basketball in the United States can be said to be unique in the world because of the NBA, and every Olympic expedition is crowned with the title of dream team, and every time it is easy to win the championship.
Compared with other teams, their advantages can be said to be greater than those of the Chinese table tennis team.
Why don't THE EXPERTS OF THE FIBA BAN THE DREAM TEAM FROM THE OLYMPICS, AND DON'T SET RULES FOR THE DREAM TEAM TO RESTRICT THEIR PLAY SO THAT OTHER SPORTS TEAMS HAVE A CHANCE TO WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS?
If someone makes such a request, will they be kicked out as crazy people?
Speaking of this, it is not clear, what is Sharala pushing for reform? For commercial purposes, for the Olympic spirit, or for his own benefit, or for the sake of his ability to make $20 million.
Dream Team
The green mountains can't cover it, after all, it flows east
In order to join the WTO, China has held arduous negotiations and paid a heavy price.
The WTO is a game dominated by Westerners, and if China wants to join, it must accept the rules of Westerners.
Westerners allow China to join because they feel that China will always be a follower, a supplier of commodities that can serve Westerners unconditionally.
China joined the WTO
Today, China has made great progress and become the world's second largest economy, so Westerners immediately changed their faces and began to vigorously suppress China, such as Huawei for China, or simply changed the rules, but if you can't beat you, I will let your advantages not play out.
Sports competitions are peacetime wars, and China has an overwhelming advantage in table tennis, so Westerners have chosen table tennis, and Sharala is the vanguard.
If one day, China has made an amazing breakthrough in football and won the World Cup consecutively, then Westerners will definitely attack football, they will say that Westerners are more willing to participate in club competitions, and the Chinese team training is entirely for the World Cup, in order to make up for this inequality, the Chinese team must hand over all his research results, reduce training time, reduce training support personnel, if it is still impossible to prevent the Chinese team from winning the championship, then change the rules of football, I really don't know what kind of football will be changed, hands and feet? alas!
As long as China continues to develop and can gain an advantage over Westerners in some way, this game of changing the rules will be indispensable.
The green mountains can't cover it, after all, it flows east.
China's development cannot be stopped by anyone.
After sitting on the throne of the president of the World Table Tennis Federation for fifteen years, Mr. Sharala was banned for four years, and finally lost his late season, lost his old face, and the heavy pressure on the Chinese team was a failure.
Today's China is no longer the China of the Opium War, and China should and can set the rules of the game that Westerners have to accept.
China can say no!