I don't know if you have found out, there have been no Chinese referees in the past two years in international basketball competitions, which is undoubtedly worse for the Chinese men's basketball team that has been declining, but this is not FIBA against us, but some people want to take shortcuts but are self-defeating, ruining the entire referee industry in China, so that FIBA will never take us to play again.
On January 6, 2021, Wei Guoliang and Ye Nan, two CBA whistles, are ready to be promoted to international-level referees, and these two referees have great backgrounds: Wei Guoliang was a player of the Hongyuan youth team, and after retiring from the youth team, he frequently appeared in various enterprises, On the grassroots basketball competition court such as the village and town basketball league, he insisted on it for nearly 10 years, and gradually stood out from the grassroots referee team in Dongguan, and later became the referee of the CBA, obtained the technical level qualification of the national basketball referee, and also became the deputy director of the referee committee of the Dongguan Basketball Association.
Another referee, Ye Nan, is the son of Ye Peng, the former head coach of the Shandong men's basketball team, who once ranked in the top three in the top ten referees of the CBA League, and also blew the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup and obtained the national basketball referee technical level qualification. He and Wei Guoliang are both expected to become world-class basketball referees, but they chose to cheat in order to achieve their goals, and as a result, they did not succeed in stealing chickens and rice, not only did not obtain the FIBA technical official certification qualification, but also were revoked from the national basketball referee technical level qualification.
Here's the thing, in the 2021-2023 FIBA Technical Officer Certified Physical Fitness Test held in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province on January 6, 2021, Wei Guoliang and Ye Nan conspired to cheat and replace the standard version with a non-standard version of the test music, resulting in a 20-second increase in the actual test time.
The standard test method is a 20-meter switchback run based on the rhythm of the music from slow to fast, and each time you "beep", you must step on the end line, and the rhythm is very slow at the beginning of the test, and you will accelerate evenly every minute.
Wei Guoliang and Ye Nan did not use the official standard version of the test music, but replaced it with a slower version, giving them a full 20 seconds more test time than others, giving them more time to complete the required number of switchback runs.
At that time, the epidemic was raging, and FIBA could not arrange technical officials to come to China to invigilate, so they entrusted the Chinese Basketball Association to organize the referee official assessment on their own.
However, the final result needs to be recognized by FIBA, and their cleverness has not escaped FIBA's eyes, although they have done tricks on the video, but they calmly complete the test that others can only complete with bared teeth, and it is two people who do it at the same time, which is very rare for technical officials who have been evaluating basketball referees in various countries all year round.
So, they invited professionals in the field of music to analyze the audio, and found that the rhythm of the audio version used by the two candidates was much slower than the test version, and if the whole music was played at this pace, it was 20 seconds longer than the standard version, and finally they determined that Wei Guoliang and Ye Nan cheated in the exam, and the physical fitness test was found invalid by FIBA, causing serious consequences and bad effects, and the entire referee industry in China was affected, and no Chinese referee appeared on the stage of international competitions in the past two years, which is the FIBA punishment for cheating。
As a referee who guards the fairness and impartiality of the basketball court, but chooses to cheat, it is not only the two of them who are involved in this scandal, why did the Chinese Basketball Association not seriously invigilate the exam after being entrusted by FIBA, and why did it not carefully check the video after the exam? This incident is just a microcosm of Chinese basketball, not putting their minds in the right place, bent on taking shortcuts but going further and further averted, and the decline is also expected.