On April 8, Beijing time, gymnastics world champion Xiao Ruoteng revealed in an interview with CCTV Sports Channel that Wang Hongwei was no longer serving as his head coach, which aroused strong concern among netizens.
In the past Olympic cycle, Wang Hongwei has served as the head of the coaching team of the Chinese men's gymnastics team, and is also the head coach of the two absolute main players Xiao Ruoteng and Zou Jingyuan. Before the Tokyo Olympics, Wang Hongwei read out the chinese team's participation list as a coaching representative, and the result of veteran Lin Chaopan replacing Zhang Boheng, a rising star with better results in the selection competition, caused great controversy. In the gymnastics men's team final of the Tokyo Olympic Games, it was Lin Chaopan's major mistake in the free gymnastics competition that caused the Chinese team to lose the gold medal, and Wang Hongwei, as the head of the coaching team, could not escape the blame, and was once scolded on the hot search. Since then, Wang Hongwei has rarely appeared in public. It wasn't until Xiao Ruoteng confirmed in an interview that the former was no longer his supervisor coach that gymnastics fans realized that the famous coach who had led the Chinese men's gymnastics team to create brilliance was likely to fade out of the coaching team.
According to Xiao Ruoteng, the temporary replacement of Wang Hongwei's guidance and assistance to his and Zou Jingyuan's daily training is Olympic champion Teng Haibin, and the new Chinese gymnastics national team will be reassembled after the end of the national championships held in May to prepare for this year's Hangzhou Asian Games and the World Gymnastics Championships. In addition, Xiao Ruoteng, who lost to Japan's Daiki Hashimoto at the Tokyo Olympics by 0.4 points, underwent minimally invasive surgery on his left ankle at the end of last year, and his injuries have not yet fully healed, and he can only recover kurama, parallel bars and other events that mainly rely on upper limb strength.