Li Yongbo, a name once familiar to the Chinese badminton industry, as the third place in the men's doubles at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, abandoned coaching a year later, stepped down as the head coach of Chinese badminton in 2017, and won numerous honors in his coaching career for more than 20 years, but he was also questioned and criticized.
Among these doubts and criticisms, there are probably some of the most famous ones, such as the Gong Zhichao incident, the Li Gen incident, the handicap incident and so on.
Gong Zhichao incident may be senior badminton fans or sports fans should be no stranger, the truth that has been exposed has passed many years, the origin of the matter in the "Du Niang" there are still a lot of residual information, this incident caused the world champion to retire early in the golden period of his career at the age of 23.
Li Gen, the protagonist of the Li Gen incident, is the son of Li Yongbo, and his listing is because Li Gen's level as a badminton player is far from reaching the domestic first-class level, and even the provincial team is barely strong, but even like this, he is still selected for the national team and participates in the world series, which has caused a large number of powerful players to be dissatisfied.
The handicap incident occurred during the 2012 London Olympic Games, the women's doubles competition, in order to avoid another team of Chinese women's doubles players, in the case of complete superiority, Yu Yang / Wang Xiaoli had to make concessions according to the arrangement, various mistakes to give up the victory, however, this move violated the spirit of sportsmanship, was also found by the referee, and because of this time, the player in question was banned for two years. And the commander behind the scenes is safe and sound.
Time has passed, all the events have surfaced over time, the original "class teacher" has also stepped down, and now he is the same, can you still recognize him?