His name is Wei Jizhong, who is quite famous in the Olympic circles, and many people related to the Olympics are familiar with him, because he served as the secretary general of the Chinese Olympic Committee.
Thanks to his presence, our country was able to successfully apply to become one of the host countries of the Olympic Games; He has always maintained a good relationship with the International Olympic Committee, which has enabled China to gradually develop from an Olympic "novice" to a sports power participating in major international events.
Wei Jizhong should be respected for his contributions and enjoy his old age in peace. However, the truth is the opposite, his reputation has been so bad that it can be said that everyone shouts and beats him.
Although Wei Ji had expressed his willingness to dedicate his spare heat to China's sports cause before this, and dragged his elderly body to serve as a torchbearer at the Winter Olympics last year, showing his selfless dedication to the sports cause of the motherland.
However, this did not win the approval of netizens, and some even expressed the opinion that they hoped that he would retire as soon as possible and stop intervening in Chinese sports affairs.
What did Wei Jizhong do that even if he had made so many contributions, it would be difficult to salvage his reputation?
All of this starts with the controversial decisions made by Wei Jizhong in recent years.
The Chinese women's volleyball girls won the women's volleyball championship trophy again, and they won all 11 games, fully realizing everyone's expectations. This achievement became a hot topic of discussion across the country for a while.
Many netizens have posted articles praising and congratulating the girls of the women's volleyball team, calling them an indispensable force in the era of the rise of Chinese sports.
The joy of the women's volleyball team winning the championship did not last long, and Wei Jizhong's speech was like a basin of cold water, completely extinguishing everyone's excitement.
In Wei Ji's winning essay, there is such a sentence: "There are only a handful of people who can stand on the podium, but there are countless people who have paid for this victory." ”
At first glance, there seems to be no problem with this statement, all the staff have made a huge contribution behind the women's volleyball team winning the championship, and they are actually the uncrowned kings.
However, through reading the full text, it is not difficult to find that Wei Jizhong spoke highly of many people in this article, but did not praise the girls of the women's volleyball team who fought on the field.
Many people have stood up for the women's volleyball players and coaches, pointing out that although the behind-the-scenes staff are also heroes and should be recognized, they should not ignore the people who really deserve praise.
In the process of defending the championship this time, the girls of the women's volleyball team won the championship with a complete victory, but it should be pointed out that they paid far more than ordinary perseverance in every game when preparing and training, and finally won this honor.
In fact, this is not the first time that Wei Jizhong has made such controversial remarks.
At that time, Wei Jizhong said in an interview that the women's volleyball players were generally fat, with round waists and thick legs.
Although there is some joke in such a statement, it is still quite hurtful for girls in the prime of their youth.
However, the Chinese women's volleyball team unexpectedly won the championship that year, which can be seen as their silent response to Wei Jizhong's statement.
Wei Jizhong is not only an outsider, but he especially likes to comment on the affairs of insiders from the perspective of outsiders, which has caused many people to be dissatisfied.
Lang Ping is the best example, she is the meritorious coach of the women's volleyball team to win the championship.
Friends who are familiar with the women's volleyball team know that Lang Ping herself is a former athlete, and her long-term participation in high-load competitions has caused her to suffer many sequelae.
Lang Ping decided to travel to the United States to receive ** due to her illness, but due to the huge accumulated expenses for medical treatment, transportation and medical expenses, she decided to seek assistance from the Volleyball Association.
The decision of the Volleyball Association made her feel cold, and Lang Ping, the meritorious hero of the Chinese women's volleyball team, asked Wei Jizhong, who was the vice chairman of the Chinese Volleyball Association at the time, for help, but he refused her without hesitation. Faced with such a situation, Lang Ping had no choice but to accept the coaching invitation of the American team.
This reasonable approach spread rumors of conflicts between the Chinese women's volleyball coach and the management in the outside world, and Lang Ping was also under a lot of pressure for a while.
What's even more outrageous is that no one has come forward to clarify for Lang Ping, and Wei Jizhong, who contributed to all this.
The results of the Chinese women's volleyball team have fallen into a state of malaise, not only losing one after another in major competitions, but even the players have lost confidence and fighting spirit. And without a meritorious coach like Lang Ping, the situation is even worse.
At this moment, the entire team is in a slump, which has led the people to point the finger at Wei Jizhong, believing that he is the culprit of all this.
Wei Jizhong could only reluctantly recruit Chen Zhonghe to take over the current predicament of the women's volleyball team.
originally thought that Chen Zhonghe was just implicated by Wei Jizhong, but unexpectedly, under his careful guidance, the girls of the women's volleyball team quickly got out of the predicament.
His team won the Women's Volleyball World Cup and then won again at the 2004 Athens Olympics. No one could have predicted that Chen Zhonghe, who had been a teaching assistant for eight years, would lead the team to such amazing achievements.
However, Wei Jizhong has always been dissatisfied with Chen Zhonghe, because he believes that Chen Zhonghe is not the ideal head coach candidate. Despite this, Chen Zhonghe successfully led the girls of the women's volleyball team to many honorary results, which bothered him.
If Chen Zhonghe is replaced now, it is likely to provoke the anger of the Chinese people. But as the saying goes: if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, and Wei Jizhong, who has been deposing Chen Zhonghe, soon ushered in an opportunity.
At the Beijing Olympics, the national team led by Chen Zhonghe coincidentally met the American team coached by Lang Ping. The U.S. women's volleyball team was originally a very strong opponent, and now with the addition of Lang Ping, this game is destined to be extremely difficult.
However, we were already on the back foot from the start, as several of the team's main players were unsure of their availability due to injuries before the game, and the game looked like Mars hitting Earth.
In the face of strong opponents, Chen Zhonghe has always been cautious and cautious, but he lacks the courage to use newcomers, so he can only reluctantly appoint injured veterans, and the result inevitably ends in failure.
The outside world's accusations against Chen Zhonghe are also due to this performance of strength, Wei Jizhong has endured it for a long time, so he decided to replace Chen Zhonghe without hesitation.
Cai Bin, a fellow countryman of his own, took over Chen Zhonghe's position. In Wei Jizhong's view, Cai Bin's ability to guide is not inferior to Chen Zhonghe in any way, and more importantly, Cai Bin is absolutely loyal to himself.
It is a pity that Cai Bin disappointed Wei Jizhong soon after taking office. Under Cai Bin's leadership, the women's volleyball players have suffered four consecutive defeats, which can be said to be the worst record in history.
The loss to Thailand at the Asian Championships really stirred up that anger. In the face of such a competition result, the people directly attacked the management, and Cai Bin became the target of ridicule from all over the country, and similarly, Wei Jizhong, who has always supported Cai Bin, is also to blame.
Fortunately, there is a person who has always been concerned about the Chinese women's volleyball team, and when facing the most dangerous moment, she resolutely chose to go in the same boat with the women's volleyball players, this person is the legendary coach of the past - Lang Ping.
The Chinese women's volleyball team quickly recovered after Lang Ping's return, and gradually regained its former peak at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Lang Ping fired back to Wei Jizhong with such achievements, and she proved with practical actions that a layman can only be a layman after all.
Wei Jizhong's influence is not only limited to the field of volleyball, and even our country's national sport, table tennis, has been affected by the "** policy" he implemented.
China's national table tennis team received a sudden notice to implement "flat management" measures, and the driving force behind this management measure was Wei Jizhong.
The impact of this policy was directed at Liu Guoliang, who was the coach of the Chinese national team at the time, and he felt that he was being targeted by this management policy.
The resolute decision to terminate the contract with the national team and return to the United States to spend time with his family also brought a huge blow to the morale of the national team.
Many players loyal to Liu Guoliang chose to boycott or even miss the game as a way to express their dissatisfaction with the high-level policies.
After Wei Jizhong calmed down the boycott turmoil in his country, the performance of the Chinese table tennis team began to decline at a speed visible to the naked eye, and only won one gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships, setting the worst result in the history of the Chinese table tennis national team.
However, in Wei Jizhong, the initiator of all this, expressed the view that everything needs to go through trials and failures, as if it had nothing to do with him.
The National Sports Administration was dissatisfied with Wei Jizhong's move, because table tennis has an important significance in China that cannot be compared with other sports.
They hastily asked Liu Guoliang to come out of the mountain, hoping that he would return to the position of head coach of the national team in order to bring the national team back on track from the turmoil.
Although Wei Jizhong has made indelible contributions to the development of sports in China, at the same time, some of his wrong decisions have also had a great impact on China's sports world.
Although he often has words like "only personal opinions" in his mouth, as an important figure in the Chinese sports world, his every sentence will be amplified without limit. Therefore, there are many who hope that he will be able to quit.