According to the official BWF, four Chinese players Li Junhui, Liu Yuchen, He Jiting and Tan Qiang were banned for 3 months, with a two-year suspension. The ban started on January 25 this year and lasted until April 25, considering that two months have passed, the overall impact is not large. But this incident once again exposed the problems in the internal management of the Chinese badminton team.
It is understood that the reason why the four athletes were banned is the long-standing stubborn disease of the national feather: negative competition. I believe many people still remember that in the women's doubles field of the 2012 Olympic Games, the Chinese team Du Jing/Yu Yang was punished for negative competition. In the history of Chinese badminton, there are often teammates to meet, the coaching staff in order to ensure the interests of the Chinese team as much as possible, will instruct some players to react passively, in order to achieve the purpose of allowing more stable players to participate in the championship battle, said to be a good point, that is, commonly known as "let the ball", to put it bluntly, this is the fake ball. The national feather said that it obeyed the penalty, which also shows that the national feather took the initiative to admit to playing a match-fixing, so it will not appeal.
This phenomenon was also common in the early years of national table tennis events, but with the passage of time, when Chinese table tennis players participated in major international events, there were few similar situations, and everyone basically tried their best. However, after the large-scale personnel changes in the management of the national feathers in 2017, it seems that there are still problems in the construction of the team and the restraint of players. Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen have won a number of world championships, including the World Championships, the two are still the silver medalists in the men's doubles at the Olympic Games last summer, tan qiang and He Jiting have won the championships in the Military Games and the Sudirman Cup respectively, it can be said that the four players are world champions.
In fact, at the end of last year, China's Zhu Junhao and Zhang Binrong were banned for 2 years because of negative competition. Fortunately, affected by the international epidemic situation, the Chinese badminton team has not participated in too many major events in recent months, some time ago, the national badminton has determined to withdraw from the Swiss Open collectively, the main task of the players is to prepare for normal training, and the impact of the ban on the team is not large. However, this atmosphere still needs to be contained, since participating in the competition, we must seriously deal with it, adhere to the bottom line of sportsmanship, and the negative attitude is absolutely unacceptable.
In addition, the national feather team member Di Zijian seems to have revealed that when he participated in the Danish Open last year, he deliberately played a fake ball, and was exposed by his girlfriend. It can be clearly seen that behind the long-term peak of Chinese badminton, there are too many unknown sides, and the national badminton talent is not picked up, especially the lack of successors in the men's team, not without reasons. In the new Olympic cycle, Zhang Jun's task is not only to lead the team to accumulate experience and strive to complete breakthroughs in achievements, but also to strengthen team management and abide by the basic principles of fairness and justice.