Chinese table tennis has gone on a war footing for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, vowing to dock coaches' pay and demote them if they fail to keep the country at the top. China top the men's, women's and team world rankings, while the country has won all 12 gold medals on offer...
Chinese table tennis has gone on a war footing for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, vowing to dock coaches' pay and demote them if they fail to keep the country at the top.
But open dissent broke out in 2017 when three of China's top-ranked men pulled out of a home tournament in protest at the removal of head coach Liu Guoliang. Liu, who has been appointed CTTA chairman, employs a points-based system of rewards and punishments for coaches -"the most stringent in history", declared state news agencyXinhua.
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