Due to being implicated in the Zhang Jike incident, Liu Guoliang was once suspected by the outside world of being the big boss behind the incident. However, Liu Guoliang ignored it, and inadvertently completely drew a line with Zhang Jike. At the new Congress of the Chinese Table Tennis Association on April 6, Liu Guoliang was officially re-elected as the chairman of the Table Tennis Association. Importantly, Li Yingchuan, as the deputy director of the General Administration of Sports, also attended the meeting in person. Re-elected chairman of the Table Tennis Association and with high-level guarantees, Liu Guoliang officially "declared" his safety.
As we all know, Olympic champion Zhang Jike has recently been caught in a gambling scandal, and even dragged star actor Jing Tian into the water. Indeed, as a national table tennis superstar who almost achieved a double-lap Grand Slam, Zhang Jike's career as a player is extremely brilliant. At the age of 23, he won the World Championship and the World Cup, and at the age of 24, he won the gold medal in the men's singles at the London Olympics, and Zhang Jike became the third Chinese men's table tennis Grand Slam player after Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui. At the same time, it took only 455 days to win a Grand Slam, making him the fastest table tennis player in history to win a Grand Slam.
Despite his glamorous career as a player, Zhang Jike is riddled with scandals behind his back. As early as 2004, Zhang Jike was returned to the provincial team by the national team for violating team rules. According to the "Sports Weekly" report that year, Zhang Jike participated in gambling because he borrowed the bank card of a table tennis celebrity, and as a result, he did not see his eldest brother after losing money, so he chose to leave the team. However, only 2 years later, Zhang Jike returned to the national team. Hence what followed to be a brilliant playing career. In 2019, Zhang Jike gradually faded out of the national team due to physical reasons and almost announced his retirement.
Due to the fact that he has repeatedly won glory for the country and has outstanding image and temperament in his time as a player, Zhang Jike has been favored by the outside world, especially after winning the Olympic championship, he has received many endorsements, and his commercial value has repeatedly reached new highs. According to the 2017 China Sports Wealth List, Zhang Jike ranked second with an annual income of 60 million yuan, second only to Sun Yang.
But what I never expected was that Zhang Jike was not clean, and this time he was exposed again to the gambling scandal is the best proof. What's worse, he also dragged his ex-girlfriend and actress Jing Tian into the water, so that he was spurned by all the people and truly ruined.
Zhang Jike's cliff-like death also caused Liu Guoliang, who had previously spoiled him too much, to suffer great controversy from the outside world. Some people even believe that Liu Guoliang is the rumored eldest brother. Facts speak louder than words, though. Liu Guoliang's official announcement of this streak is not only a proof of innocence for himself, but also completely draws a line with Zhang Jike.
It is worth mentioning that Li Yingchuan, one of the standing members of the General Administration of Sport of China, also attended the meeting. When Chen Jiayuan and Du Zhaocai were taken away and the Football Association was leaderless, it was this Li Yingchuan who led the working group to enter the Chinese Football Association and presided over the relevant work of the association, which stabilized the current situation.