In the world of table tennis, Liu Guoliang has a pivotal position, and he has been working hard for the promotion and commercial development of table tennis. According to the latest news, Liu Guoliang will not participate in the new ITTF president, but he will become a member of the ITTF Executive Committee-while guaranteeing the national table tennis training competition, he will lay out the future of table tennis for the whole world. direction.
Liu Guoliang does not run for the president of the ITTF
In an interview with the ITTF recently, revealed that the Chinese Table Tennis Association needs to be the president of the ITTF because of the need to run for the president of the ITTF Very complicated and cumbersome preparations, and this preparation process coincides with the time for the Chinese team to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics. He chose to devote all his energy to the preparations for the Chinese team.
In November of this year, the ITTF presidential election will be held during the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, USA. Liu Guoliang was considered the most suitable candidate, but he gave up.
ITTF Group CEO Steve Denton said: "He decided to devote all his energy to preparing for the Tokyo Olympics first. This is his most important job as the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association. Now he plans to understand first. Study the ITTF system and understand the people who work in this system-members of the ITTF family will be very grateful for this."
Liu Guoliang chooses to be with Guoping
Liu Guoliang was nominated as the Executive Vice President of ITTF
According to China News Network on September 7,The ITTF Nomination Committee reviews the candidates for the ITTF Executive Committee and announces the list of candidates to the member associations. Liu Guoliang, Chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, was nominated for the post of Executive Vice Chairman of the ITTF.
On November 24, 2021, ITTF members will vote at the ITTF Annual Congress in Houston, USA to elect 9 ITTF Executive Committee members. The term of office of these 9 elected persons is four years.
As early as last June, Liu Guoliang, the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, was elected as the chairman of the newly established WTT Council to lead and develop the future of world table tennis.
WTT World Table Tennis Professional League was founded in August 2019 by the ITTF. It is a milestone in the professional reform of world table tennis. It aims to help ITTF's competition system and business with athletes and fans at the core. The system is comprehensively upgraded and transformed to give full play to the potential of table tennis and further promote the world's influence of table tennis.
being the leader of this new organization shows that Liu Guoliang has an influence in the table tennis industry. He already has multiple roles and his affairs are quite heavy.
The article revealed that although Liu Guoliang will not run for the chairman of the Table Tennis Federation for the time being, he will serve as a member of the ITTF Executive Committee in the next few years and participate in the work of the ITTF decision-making level. This work can help him further familiarize and study the ITTF platform system, understand the development status of each member association, so as to think about the future direction of table tennis from the perspective of the entire world table tennis world.
ITTF Group CEO Steve Denton also said: “Liu Guoliang plans to first understand and study the ITTF system and the people working in this system-members of the ITTF family will Very grateful for this."
Source: The Paper, reporter Qi Dong, trainee reporter Hu Jie
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