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2021 table tennis international competition has come to an end. In 12 international competitions, the national table tennis team won the men's and women's singles gold medals and men's and women's team gold medals in the Tokyo Olympics; won the men's and women's singles championships, women's doubles and mixed doubles championships in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships; and won the men's and women's singles championships in the WTT World Cup finals. The brilliant record, high morale, and tenacious fighting spirit indicate that the transition between the new and old of the national table tennis team has been completed. In the warm atmosphere of everyone's joy, a 2021 Chinese Olympic Committee record statistics of the 2021 Chinese table tennis team resulted in an uproar in public opinion. What's the whole story?
1. Causes of public opinion controversy: WTT World Cup finals women's singles Sun Yingsha won the championship, and the Central Olympic Committee does not recognize it as the world champion.
This year's WTT World Cup finals, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha won the men's and women's championships respectively. This champion was expelled from the world championship won by the Chinese Olympic Committee in 2021.
Whether the WTT World Cup championship is considered a world champion is not very important to Fan Zhendong. Fan Zhendong World Cup and World Table Tennis Championships have all singles champions, and only one Olympic champion is enough to be a big winner. However, this is very important to Sun Yingsha. Now Chen Meng is in the women's singles champions at the Olympic and World Cup, and Wang Manyu and have the women's singles champion in the World Table Tennis Championships, and only Sun Yingsha has the women's singles champion in the three major competitions in the world.
If the champion of the WTT World Cup finals is considered to be the original World Cup champion, Sun Yingsha will break through the 0 championships of the World Championship. In this way, everyone has the title of World Championship champion for the new women's table tennis team, which is beautiful and balanced in appearance. Although there will be no singles champion in the World Championships, Sun Yingsha’s position in the three core women’s table tennis teams, the Chinese people’s “face project” is still good.
It is precisely because the Central Olympic Committee excluded the WTT World Cup finals champion from the world champion in the 2021 national table tennis record statistics that caused a big explosion of public opinion.
2. From three aspects, the Central Olympic Committee does not recognize that the WTT World Cup final champion is a world champion, but it is still well-founded.
The Central Olympic Committee does not recognize that Sun Yingsha won the WTT World Cup finals championship as the world champion. I have also misunderstood and have had disputes with readers. However, seeing that everyone has been controversial about this in recent days, I have searched for information from multiple sources and conducted superficial partial research, and found some reasons for the Central Olympic Committee to deny Sun Yingsha's world championship title.
(I), the WTT World Cup finals are not equal to the original Table Tennis World Cup hosting level.
Table Tennis World Cup was founded in 1980 and has been held separately for men and women's singles since 1996. From beginning to end, the organizers of the Table Tennis World Cup are ITTF .
WTT World Cup Finals was first launched in 2021. Its organizer is World Table Tennis Professional League (referred to as World Table Tennis Federation).
ITTF and World Table Tennis Federation are affiliated with the World Table Tennis Federation. The original World Cup organizer was the ITTF, and the organizer of this year's WTT World Cup finals was the World Table Tennis Federation, which means that the organizer has lowered the level.
My understanding of the above is: Just like National Sports Administration , it has subordinate institutions such as Chinese Table Tennis Association , Chinese Basketball Association , Chinese Football Association , and Chinese Football Association . The competitions hosted by the General Administration of Sports of China are different from those hosted by the Table Tennis Association, Basketball Association , Football Association , etc. The National Sports General Assembly hosts the first-level competition, and the Association hosts the second-level competition. Similarly, the World Cup hosted by the ITTF is a first-class event, and the WTT World Cup hosted by the World Table Tennis Federation should be downgraded to a second-class event.
(II), the original World Cup and WTT World Cup finals have very different trophies and award ceremony.
The original Table Tennis World Cup competition should be awarded when awarding medals and trophys.There was no such ceremony at the award ceremony for the Singapore WTT World Cup finals.
In addition, the trophy awarded to the champions of the two World Cups is not the same (same).
Original World Cup Women's Singles Championship Trophy is called "Hamalund Cup". The winner's name must be engraved on the trophy when presenting the award. I remember watching the 2020 Women's Table Tennis World Cup final and seeing the engraving ceremony when I presented the trophy to Chen Meng . The trophy presented to Sun Yingsha this year was neither the Hamalund Cup nor the ceremony of engraving the name on the trophy.
(3). The ITTF is the founder and owner of the Table Tennis World Cup. It has not officially announced the cancellation of the original Table Tennis World Cup.
WTT (World Table Tennis Federation) officially announced the 2021 Singapore WTT World Cup Finals, which merged the original World Cup and the year-end finals.
From the official announcement by WTT (World Table Tennis Federation), it seems that the original Table Tennis World Cup has been replaced by the current WTT World Cup finals. However, the original ownership of the World Cup is not in the hands of WTT (World Table Tennis Federation), but in the ITTF, and only the ITTF has the right to announce the cancellation.
Since the ITTF does not announce the cancellation of the original Table Tennis World Cup, it can only be regarded as the suspension of the event in 2021. There is also a precedent for this. The 1999 World Cup was suspended for one year due to sponsorship reasons.
This article summarizes:
The national table tennis team won a great harvest in 2021, but it was a bit regrettable that the number of world championships they had won changed from 10 to 8, especially for young player Sun Yingsha. I thought that winning the WTT World Cup finals would achieve a breakthrough in the 0 singles in the World Championships, but the number of national table tennis team won by the Chinese Olympic Committee was excluded, and Sun Yingsha won the championship in the year-end finals. After carefully searching the information, the China Olympic Committee does not recognize that the WTT World Cup final champion is the world champion, and the basis and reasons are reasonable and sufficient.
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