#时事热点头条说#
At present, the main players of the national table tennis team have all returned to China for a short rest, and then will reopen the last winter training before the Chinese New Year to prepare for the next more important competitions in 2024, and the Paris Olympics next year. Chen Xingtong, as one of the five main forces of the Chinese team, although the probability of entering the Paris Olympics is very small, but theoretically she still has a chance, and in 2024, because of the addition of an additional World Cup game, the points of this game are also very high, which also makes Chen Xingtong theoretically impact the Paris Olympics, at least to impact the qualification of a substitute, there is a trace of possibility.
In the women's finals just past, Chen Xingtong defeated Wang Manyu 3:0 and reached the final four. Although he has not been able to go further, to be honest, with Chen Xingtong's current level, reaching the top four of this kind of competition is basically completed, but there are not too many surprises. But in the semi-finals with Wang Yidi, a teammate of the national team, because he looked at his mobile phone during the break, this picture was captured, so it caused an uproar on the Internet. Many netizens posted on the Internet that Chen Xingtong's behavior violated the relevant regulations of the International Table Tennis Federation, and he would be fined and even banned for a period of time.
Here we first want to explain to you that the ITTF does have relevant regulations that prohibit athletes from using relevant electronic devices during the competition, but among these regulations, in the 2023 regulations, only fines are involved, and there are no relevant regulations related to bans. After seeing that this matter was getting worse, Chen Xingtong also officially issued a clarification today.
Chen Xingtong said that she did look at her mobile phone during the game, which she directly admitted, and she also said that she looked at her mobile phone mainly to watch some of the key points of the game recorded before, because this game is a civil war between the Chinese team, so there is no off-the-field guidance, so she used such a way to guide herself to prevent the game from being too intense and forgetting some points, which is absolutely reasonable. As for whether the ITTF will punish her for violating the relevant regulations by bringing her mobile phone to watch, we have to look at the right to interpret this provision. In order to be able to create such an argument that Chen Xingtong will be punished, many self-media people take it out of context.
In fact, there is a note under this article of the ITTF, if the athlete really violated the relevant regulations during the game, that is, brought an electronic device, and watched, if there is a reasonable explanation, and the ITTF can adopt and recognize this explanation, it can be exempted from punishment. And Chen Xingtong said in this response that the relevant situation has been explained to the relevant departments of the country, that is to say, the relevant departments of our country will explain this to the ITTF, and the ITTF will most likely recognize this thing, because there is this video recording at the scene, if you zoom in on the video, you can see what Chen Xingtong is watching on his mobile phone, which should be a reasonable explanation.
Therefore, regarding the punishment of being banned for watching mobile phones in the game, I think there is a high probability that such a situation will not occur. Of course, she did violate the relevant regulations, and this also reminds us that the athletes of the Chinese team should avoid making such low-level and amateur mistakes in the future.