In 2016, the women's table tennis competition of the Rio Olympics came to an end, and the Chinese women's table tennis team won the honor of double championship again.
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The cheers at the scene were not only given to every female table tennis player, but also to the female table tennis coach Kong Linghui in the stands.
The team led by himself won this good result, and Kong Linghui was beautiful for a while.
Unexpectedly, less than a year later, he was exposed to a scandal and owed a huge amount of debt.
The salary of the head coach of the national team is not low, how can he suddenly owe a huge debt?
Since that incident, he has disappeared, how is Kong Linghui doing now?
The scandal came to light and it turned out to be a gambler
Since the end of the Rio Olympics, Kong Linghui won the championship by himself, and once again ushered in the highlight moment of his life.
But in less than a year, all this came to an abrupt end.
In 2017, the media broke the news that when the national women's table tennis coach Kong Linghui was traveling in Singapore in 2015, he not only participated in gambling, but even lost as much as 2 million yuan in gambling.
Because of his inability to repay his gambling debts, he was sued by the gambling company.
The original article was published on the Observer.com on May 29, 2017 on the report on "Singapore casino sues Kong Linghui in Hong Kong: recovering 2.56 million gambling debts".
This time, he rushed to the hot search on the Internet, and was criticized by netizens for being incomplete.
As a public figure and a world champion who won the first table tennis grand slam for his country, his words and deeds play a very important guiding role in society.
Unexpectedly, behind this glamour, he actually committed such a bad act as gambling.
But as netizens dug into his past, they discovered that gambling was just one of his many scandals.
Kong Linghui was born in 1975, and because of his family, he has had a strong interest in table tennis since he was a child.
Interest and talent, in a short period of time, he mastered the basic techniques of table tennis, which made his father very happy.
So his father spent more effort to train him, and by the time he was 12 years old, he was successfully admitted to the national team.
He was admitted to the national team with Liu Guoliang, a well-known national table tennis coach, and the two were later called "twin stars".
After arriving at the national team, he saw a lot of excellent players, and in order to be able to show himself on a bigger stage, he began to practice harder.
In 1989, he participated in the national junior table tennis competition for the first time, and he won the championship with his unique skills and playing style.
Since winning this championship, he has turned on the championship harvesting mode, as long as it is a competition he has participated in, he has won the championship title without landing.
In 1995, he won the World Table Tennis Championships held in Tianjin, and in the same year, he won the championship again at the Nîmes Table Tennis World Championships in France.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he won the men's singles table tennis championship, and so far, the Grand Slam has been reached.
He also became the second player to win the men's table tennis singles Grand Slam, and it was at this time that his name resounded all over the country and won countless honors.
As more and more new generation players join the national team, Kong Linghui has also been promoted from the role of player to coach.
On the one hand, he will compete with the same generation of players, and on the other hand, he will also compete as a coach with a new generation of players.
As the so-called back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, the new generation of players slowly stood out, and they gradually withdrew from the stage of the competition.
In the 2006 National Championships, Kong Linghui lost to Zhang Jike, and since then he has made the decision to retire.
After retiring, Kong Linghui did not stay in the men's team, but went to the national women's table tennis team as a coach.
He used his experience and skills to carry out systematic training for the women's table tennis team.
Since he joined the women's table tennis team, the players have won time and time again.
Especially Guo Yue, led by him, won the third place in the women's table tennis singles, and then Guo Yue won the women's team championship.
After Kong Linghui became the head coach of women's table tennis in 2013, he led the women's table tennis team to defeat Japan and win six consecutive World Cup championships, and then won the championship at the 2014 World Championships.
In 2016, the women's table tennis won all the gold medals in the women's table tennis event at the Rio Olympics, and Kong Linghui became famous for a while.
But since Kong Linghui's gambling scandal was exposed, everyone knew that behind the original scenery, he had repeatedly violated the law.
Scandals are frequent, and eventually return to amateurs
In 2006, he had a car accident after drunk driving, and he had a strong conflict with the driver who was hit.
The original article was published on China News Network on November 5, 2013 on "Those Sports Stars Who Got into Trouble: Kong Linghui Drunk Driving Exemption from Arrest".
At that time, this news also put him on the cusp, and after he sobered up, he apologized as soon as possible, cooperated with the police to do a series of investigations, and accepted the corresponding punishment.
After the turmoil stopped, in 2011, he had another conflict with the security guard at the bank gate because of alcoholism.
The two started to fight in the process of arguing, and were soon taken to the police station by the police.
In addition to these scandals, in 2014 he was exposed to a scandal with a woman who kissed passionately, which was a scandal because he had a girlfriend at the time.
This time, he was once again pushed into the hot search of public opinion, but his team's public relations handled it properly, and in the end, the matter slowly disappeared.
It wasn't until 2017 that it was suddenly revealed on the Internet that Kong Linghui was sued by the casino for owing huge gambling debts, which once again attracted the attention and discussion of netizens.
Perhaps his good fortune came to an end, and this incident had a huge impact on his career.
After the news was exposed, the national team also dealt with him accordingly as soon as possible, first of all, to suspend him from all his positions in the national team.
After realizing the seriousness of the matter, he also stood up as soon as possible, saying that it was not himself who participated in gambling at that time, but a group of relatives and friends who went to travel together.
The original article was published on China News Network on May 30, 2017 on "Kong Linghui's response to 'Singapore casino arrears': not his own gambling".
But this argument is obviously untenable, if it is a gambling involving a group of relatives and friends, why is the casino suing him?
In desperation, he could only take the initiative to resign from the national team and disappeared in the national table tennis world since then.
As time passed, these scandals slowly disappeared, and Kong Linghui returned to a peaceful life.
It's just that the mistakes of the past can't make him return to the national table tennis career again, and in order to live, he started a purple clay pot business with the support of his family.
At that time, during the filming of the movie "Chinese Ping Pong", someone once saw him visiting the crew.
Seeing these young actors playing the former him, perhaps the emotions surging in his heart, in addition to reluctance, should be more regret.
epilogue
Kong Linghui, who is nearly half a hundred years old, is still single today, which makes his father very worried.
There are also insiders who exposed that he usually participates in some public welfare activities about table tennis and guides players in it.
We also exposed his pictures from passers-by, and we can see that he is not doing badly, and he seems to be very satisfied with his current state.
Perhaps while stepping out of the spotlight, he also found a peace in his heart that he hadn't felt for a long time.
I wonder if the midnight dream will touch my heart when I think back to the glorious days of the year?