As we all know, the recent Saudi Grand Slam tournament has ended, in which Chen Meng defeated Sun Yingsha to win the women's singles championship. And Wang Manyu, who competed with her for the women's singles quota in the Paris Olympics, was eliminated early and lost the foreign war and was deducted 3,000 points.
Under such circumstances, many fans of Wang Manyu are naturally very dissatisfied with this, and during this time, many people have successively issued articles questioning the selection of the national table tennis coaching staff. In addition, just recently, with the gradual escalation of the turmoil, many fans of Wang Manyu wrote tens of thousands of words of long articles, and jointly wrote to the General Administration of Sports of China to put forward 5 major demands.
It can be seen from the long article posted by Wang Manyu and other fans that they believe that there are many loopholes in the selection rules of the national table tennis in this Paris Olympic cycle, so they put forward some reasonable suggestions in the hope that the General Administration of Sports of China will adopt them, and then require the Chinese Table Tennis Association to improve the relevant selection mechanism to avoid mistakes in talent selection that lead to Waterloo in the follow-up Paris Olympics, and ultimately lead to major losses for the Chinese sports delegation.
From the 10,000-word long article posted by Wang Manyu's fans, we can probably understand the following content. Wang Manyu fans mainly compared the selection method of national table tennis with the Japanese team, a powerful table tennis country, and bluntly said that the Olympic selection rules of the Japanese team in some aspects are worthy of reference by the national table tennis. At the same time, Wang Manyu's fans also pointed out that in this Paris Olympic cycle, the national table tennis coaching staff has made a very messy point rules, and some of the results of some events that were originally very important have no points. As a result, some players suffer greatly in the selection process of the Olympic cycle.
Therefore, in response to some of the problems exposed by the national table tennis selection rules, Wang Manyu's fans put forward the following five demands and suggestions for adjustment. First of all, Wang Manyu's fans hope that the national table tennis will incorporate the relevant competition results of the national flag-raising competition outside the selection cycle and the Paris cycle into the points system, so as to balance some unreasonable points distribution in this Paris Olympic cycle.
The second point is that Wang Manyu fans believe that there is a serious problem of uneven opportunities in the team competition. For example, after the Busan World Table Tennis Championships entered the knockout round, Wang Manyu never had any chance to play, resulting in her points being much less than Chen Meng's. Therefore, Wang Manyu's fans believe that the uneven opportunities to play in the team competition have led to the high points of individual players, and they should be adjusted to halve their points.
Third, Wang Manyu fans demanded that the Chengdu Mixed World Cup team competition should be included in the points system. Because this event was one of the three major competitions of the national flag-raising event, Wang Manyu performed very well at that time. Fourth, the new penalty mechanism should cover a full selection cycle, rather than the coaching staff casually rewarding and partially punishing, which is very unfair to individual players.
The fans of the last Wang Manyu pointed out that some of the punishment mechanisms in national table tennis are really outrageous. For example, this time Wang Manyu was deducted 3,000 points at once, causing her to directly lose the opportunity to compete in the Olympic women's singles, which they think is a big loophole.
Finally, Wang Manyu's fans pointed out that the Japanese Table Tennis Association abolished the traditional selection logic and gave every player an equal opportunity to participate, which is to learn the previous lesson. Wang Manyu's fans hope that national table tennis will not repeat the mistakes of the past.