Liu Guoliang does not run for ITTF Chairman
In an interview with the ITTF a few days ago, China Table Tennis Association Chairman Liu Guoliang revealed that the election for ITTF President requires very complicated and cumbersome procedures. The preparations for the Chinese team coincided with the preparation of the Chinese team for the Tokyo Olympics. He chose to devote all his energy to the preparations for the Chinese team.
In November this year, the ITTF presidential election will be held during the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in the United States. 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. This is his most important job as the chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association. Now he plans to understand and study first. The ITTF system and the people who know the work in this system-the members of the ITTF family will be very grateful for this."
Liu Guoliang chooses to be with Guoping
Liu Guoliang was nominated as ITTF Executive Vice President
According to China News Network on September 7, the ITTF Nomination Committee reviewed the candidates for the ITTF Executive Committee and announced 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 by the ITTF in August 2019. It is a milestone in the professional reform of world table tennis. It aims to help ITTF’s competition system and business system with athletes and fans at the core. Comprehensive upgrade and transformation, give full play to the potential of table tennis, and further promote the world influence of table tennis.
Being able to act as the leader of this new organization shows that Liu Guoliang's influence in the table tennis industry is already very 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. It can help him further familiarize and study the ITTF platform system and understand the development status of each member association, so as to think about the future direction of table tennis from the perspective of the 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 who work in this system-members of the ITTF family will be very grateful. This point."
.Source: The Paper
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