Since the end of the Tokyo Olympics, a new cycle of national table tennis has officially arrived. In these six or seven months, Chinese table tennis is also constantly working hard, playing very good results in the new cycle, it can be said that at the beginning of the new cycle, the team once again completed the bright sword, laying a good foundation for the Paris Olympic Games.
And to be able to continue to grow in the short term, the team's series of achievements are naturally inseparable from the exercise of the competition. During this time, we can see that the national table tennis has gone through the National Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, the WTT World Cup, the Macau Grand Slam, and the just-concluded Singapore Grand Slam, and in these large numbers of international competitions, the national table tennis has played a state of continuous improvement, whether it is the core main force of national table tennis like Chen Mengsun Yingsha, or the young players of the team, who have been fully trained through this series of international competitions. Among them, you can also see that in fact, in addition to the National Games, which is our own organization, other competitions are organized by the International Table Tennis Federation, so there is no doubt that for the growth and progress of the Chinese team, the International Table Tennis Federation has also played some role in promoting, and has also received some support from domestic fans.
However, after the beginning of the new year, in fact, the International Table Tennis Federation has fallen into a whirlpool of public opinion. Of course, this is not to say that the problem of the organizer of the International Table Tennis Federation is more of a problem in the performance of the organizer. Then in the Singapore Grand Slam tournament not long ago, we also saw that there was not even a scoreboard on the field, which can be said to be very amateurish, such a performance is indeed difficult to identify, and even the national table tennis veteran Ma Long is also very helpless. This shows that at this stage, the ITTF is indeed in trouble on these issues. And not only that, not so long ago. The International Table Tennis Federation has caused a huge trouble, causing the unanimous criticism of domestic fans, and even led to the International Table Tennis Federation officially coming forward to apologize at 23:00 at night, but still can not get the understanding of the fans.
On the evening of March 26, the ITTF issued an apology for using the wrong Chinese Taipei flag when promoting the event on the Qatar Table Tennis Association's social media, apologizing to the ITTF and promising that it would not make such a mistake again. Then see here everyone should know the seriousness of the international table tennis federation's mistake this time, in the case of hundreds of millions of people watching, actually hung the chinese Taipei flag wrong, such a mistake is really unacceptable. It can be said that this matter, no matter what the reason, is a situation that should not happen, so after the International Table Tennis Federation spoke out, it still did not get forgiveness from domestic fans. And we also saw that this time, the INTERNATIONAL Table Tennis Federation only issued an apology on the domestic platform, and did not disclose it on the official website, so this made everyone even more dissatisfied. Then for the major mistakes made by the ITTF itself, the relevant parties should be fully responsible and fully apologize in the direction that the event can be publicized, otherwise what is this apology?
And in the end, the ITTF only indicated that it would take further measures to prevent this from happening, but if the situation continues to happen, what will you do about it. This is also a point of public opinion, so now if the ITTF still wants to win back the trust of fans, it must impose heavy penalties on the organizers of Doha, Qatar, and even directly deprive them of the right to hold the event, so as to solve the problem. Therefore, we also believe that as the vice president of the International Table Tennis Federation, Liu Guoliang will definitely impose heavy sanctions on Qatar for this matter.