Why did Duan Xuan pay bribes? The banana movement was abandoned by Wang Sicong and became a "white glove" for entrepreneurial dreams.
Since the first half of this year, after Duan Xuan suddenly stopped commenting and hosting, social accounts and moments suddenly stopped updating. In fact, the news of Duan Xuan's disappearance, at least on a small scale, is no longer a secret. Duan Xuan was a good person, and no one wanted something wrong with him. So, everyone privately asked Duan Xuan how he was doing, and also hoped that he could return safely.
It's just that we don't wait for Duan Xuan to come out and host the review; However, the news of Duan Xuan's disappearance was exposed by Caixin, and it was revealed that he was suspected of bribing Liu Aijie, the former director of the Olympic Games, to obtain a contract for the preparation of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Have a relevant interest in the selection of cross-project, cross-border materials, etc.
But perhaps the so-called Duan Xuan bribed Liu Aijie may not be what many people think. The reality may be more complicated than the outside world thinks. All this may have started when he left CCTV!
Personally, Duan Xuan left CCTV for two reasons. On the one hand, he was dragged into the water by Wang Sicong. On the other hand, after working in CCTV for 20 years, Duan Xuan's work in CCTV has made great progress!
At that time, the portal was in decline, but LeTV, Tencent, PP, and various new media live streaming platforms rose rapidly during this time.
Ao Ming, Duan Xuan's older brother in Guangyuan, later in the column "Football Night", after leaving CCTV in the early years, he successively became the director of Sina Sports (Yuan Jia, who understands traffic, started in Sina with Ao Ming), the chairman of director Sohu Sports, the CEO of Refueling China Community, and the vice president of LeTV Sports (then an executive of Storm Sports and PP Sports). Even the cameraman of CCTV once said a very classic sentence: "Where is Ao Ming?" But when Ao Ming can do good everywhere he goes, when Liu Jianhong first joined LeEco, he continued to show a bright future in front of CCTV's old friends. These cases also had a great impact on Duan Xuan. Just touch it.
In Duan Xuan's opinion, since Liu Jianhong and Ao Ming can do a good job jumping out of CCTV (of course, Master Liu will not be able to do it well in the future), he also wants to jump in and take a look! So when Wang Sicong invited me, the two sides hit it off!
In September 2016, I met Duan Xuan in Shenyang when the national football team hosted Iran in the round of 12. At that time, Duan Xuan gave me the impression that he was energetic, but also a little tired (after all, continuous business trips can make people tired).
However, whether it is LeEco or PP, the bloody lessons that happened to them have shown that good sports content is difficult to monetize in China! Wang Sicong actually knew this for a long time, so when Duan Xuan had just made an impact through the content of banana sports, Wang Sicong immediately recruited the army to hold this event. Because Wanda happens to have a large amount of ice and snow resources, and Beijing and Zhangjiakou have won the right to host the Winter Olympics, the ice and snow began to heat up. At the time, Banana Sports focused on snowboarding.
It has achieved a certain popularity through content, with Wang Sicong and Wanda's resources as endorsements, wanting to follow the footsteps of ice and snow. Banana Sports started well and completed a series A financing in 2017. But after financing, running two or three events burned money, but the impact of the event did not show.
When Wang Sicong realized that he could not get a return from banana sports because Wang Jianlin's father returned to Chinese football, Wang Sicong simply ignored banana sports and did not pay. Many core members of Banana Sports resigned. At that moment, both Banana Sports and Duan Xuan himself were abandoned by Wang Sicong!
At that time, Duan Xuan may retreat, and Banana Sports will collapse immediately. But for the sake of his entrepreneurial dream, Duan Xuan chose to find contacts and become Party B to take over the business. Now everyone knows that the Banana Games is the Olympic preparatory office of Liu Aijie's government.
For departments like the Olympic Preparation Office, which can achieve N small goals a year, there are many companies that come to the door and want to do business. Did Banana Sports win the bid?
Liu Aijie's opinion is important, but spending so much money is certainly not a decision that a person in Liu Aijie's position can fully make.
In the entire anti-corruption process in the sports industry, Liu Aijie, Hu Guangyu, and Ni Huizhong, who has been officially expelled, are only an important link in the chain of relevant interest transmission, but there are other "masters" in the real "terminal"!
For several years, these "masters" handed over different businesses to different "white gloves". There are also former media bosses with ties to football. After leaving the media circle, he took over some of the business pointed out by these "experts"!
Of course, in terms of "white gloves", the most famous and involved is former Football Association Secretary General Liu Yi!
There are many people in the Chinese sports industry who knows who Liu Yi is! It's just that these "experts" all made significant breakthroughs during their tenure; At least so far, he's relatively safe!
But many people associated with him are not so lucky!