On October 17, the 2020 Beijing Junior U Series Short Track Speed Skating Championships was held on the second day of competition. After the U14 and U16 women's/men's 500m finals, the award ceremony was held, and a long-lost figure appeared - Wang Mao, the four gold medalists of the Winter Olympics short track speed skating. This is her first public appearance since mysteriously leaving the National Short Track Speed Skating and Speed Skating Training Team (hereinafter referred to as the "Short Team") on April 29 this year.
Wang Meng, 36 years old this year, was the number one superstar of the Chinese short track speed skating team during his athlete years, and the main women's 500 meters were unbeatable. Wang Meng won a total of 4 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, and is currently the athlete who has won the most gold medals in the Winter Olympics in China, and is a symbol of the era of short track speed skating.
After fading out of the arena due to injury, Wang Meng still has a high ideal for the cause of ice and snow. In May 2018, Wang Meng took charge of the cross-border cross-sport speed skating national training team. On May 23, 2019, Wang Meng was officially appointed as the head of the coaching team of the "Short Team".
The short-track speed skating event is the focus of China's gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and the burden on Wang Meng is very heavy. The only criterion for her to manage the national team is to be "strict", to govern the army strictly, and at the same time to carry out drastic reforms of the team.
Wang Meng also constantly learned from other projects, learned from the table tennis team for open selection, and even conducted direct competitions within the team.
However, in the 2019-2020 season, although the short track team won ten gold medals in the World Cup series, second only to South Korea in the gold medal list, it is obvious to the outside world that the gap between the Chinese team and the South Korean team is actually widening, and the lack of bright newcomers in the men's and women's teams is still supported by veterans such as Wu Dajing, Han Tianyu and Fan Kexin. Due to special reasons, the short track speed skating World Championships in March this year were cancelled, and Wang Meng lacked another opportunity to prove the results of winter training.
At the end of April this year, news of Wang Meng's resignation spread in the ice and snow circle. At 10 o'clock on April 29, a Xinhua News Agency news release titled "Short Track Speed Skating and Speed Skating Physical Training Camp Opened" announced in a rare way that Wang Meng was "out of class", making many sports journalists who have been engaged in news reporting for many years call out "novelty". Because this manuscript does not mention Wang Meng's name throughout, only mentions that the head of the training camp is Zhang Bei, the leader of the cross-country skiing team, and the former head coach of the Chinese women's hockey team, The South Korean Kim Changbo, is the "training director".
Wang Meng was declared out of the team in this way.
Nearly half a year has passed, and the official has still not responded to the reason why Wang Meng left class. According to industry analysts, Wang Meng lacked enough coaching experience and was quickly pushed to the forefront; the Beijing Winter Olympics were getting closer and closer, and the short track team needed a more experienced helmsman.