Chinese Team Reports Racial Abuse At Table Tennis Worlds
China's Liang Jingkun, left, looks on as Lin Gaoyuan, right, returns a volley during a men's duplicates match on the fourth day of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships Friday, Nov. 26, 2021, in Houston.
HOUSTON (AP) — Chinese authorities' proper grievance of bigoted maltreatment toward one of their players at the table tennis big showdowns in Texas was taken "incredibly, genuinely," the game's overseeing body said. 토토사이트 검증
A racial slur appeared to be coordinated by a unidentified onlooker at Liang Jingkun during his match on Friday at the George R. Earthy colored Convention Center in Houston. The 6th cultivated Liang proceeded to beat Liam Pitchford of England.
"We got an objection from the Chinese Table Tennis Association and we saw something on one night ourselves," said Steve Dainton, CEO of the International Table Tennis Federation.
"Furthermore when we got that grievance, along with the nearby coordinators, we took it incredibly, genuine, and we began to make a move," Dainton told Chinese telecaster CGTN America.
Liang progressed to the men's singles elimination rounds and lost on Sunday to top-cultivated colleague Fan Zhendong, the Tokyo Olympics silver medalist.
The ITTF's recently chosen president, Petra Sörling, said the issue was taken "incredibly, genuinely" by the association she was chosen last week for lead.
With 563 million fans all over the planet, WTT is surprising the world. Table tennis authoritatively turned into the most-watched sport in China, and immediately amassed 350 million remarkable watchers post Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the beyond couple of months.