Although the Singapore Table Tennis General Announced that Feng Tianwei is no longer a member of the national team, Feng Tianwei recently said that she will still maintain her Singaporean citizenship, which will not change.
Feng Tianwei said through the media: "I have always wanted to play for Singapore, even though I am no longer a member of the national team. That's what I've said from the beginning, and it's still my current will. ”
Previously, there were rumors that many associations welcomed Feng Tianwei's joining. Table tennis official Wong Wai Ling publicly stated that "if Feng Tianwei is willing to represent other associations, Singapore Table Tennis will not stop it." ”
Feng Tianwei quickly responded, "I am a Singaporean, of course I have to represent Singapore." I love Singapore and I love table tennis and I am so thankful as a Singaporean that I still have the opportunity to play for Singapore. ”
Singapore's Straits Times believes that the various words of Feng Tianwei and ping pong general show that the table tennis general has made a false example for the work of sports associations, and it is foolish not to communicate well with athletes before making any decision. Any elite athlete who has contributed to the collective does not want to be hurt in this way. And Feng Tianwei is not the first victim, the newspaper lists a number of national team managers who have been implicated in recent years due to infighting. From Liu Guodong, who initially led the Singapore women's team to the Olympic podium, to the current women's team head coach Chen Zhibin, who was urgently called, he has had an unpleasant experience with table tennis. If the internal contradictions of the table tennis federation and the national team cannot be properly resolved, it will be they who will beat The Singapore table tennis team.