As expected, the shameless state media has begun its smear campaign against Liu Guodong to justify Lee Bee Wah’s remarks that he lacked professionalism and integrity.
Shin Ming daily published a full page article castigating Liu for almost causing the Singapore table tennis team to “break up” prior to the Beijing Olympics.
Quoting from anonymous sources from STTA, Shin Ming claimed that Liu was biased towards Wang Yuegu and favored Li Jiawei as the main player in the team which caused friction between the two.
Wang Yuegu almost thought of returning to China and was persuaded to stay on by STTA. The source also alleged that Wang has kept a voice recording of a conversation between Liu and Li Jiawei as evidence.
STTA had a discussion with Liu and expressed its wishes to see him place his attention equally on all players. Liu defended his strategy and he was aware that he would lose the “respect” of his players as a result.
Shin Ming ended with the potentially defamatory statement (boxed in red):
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Shin Ming daily published a full page article castigating Liu for almost causing the Singapore table tennis team to “break up” prior to the Beijing Olympics.
Quoting from anonymous sources from STTA, Shin Ming claimed that Liu was biased towards Wang Yuegu and favored Li Jiawei as the main player in the team which caused friction between the two.
Wang Yuegu almost thought of returning to China and was persuaded to stay on by STTA. The source also alleged that Wang has kept a voice recording of a conversation between Liu and Li Jiawei as evidence.
STTA had a discussion with Liu and expressed its wishes to see him place his attention equally on all players. Liu defended his strategy and he was aware that he would lose the “respect” of his players as a result.
Shin Ming ended with the potentially defamatory statement (boxed in red):
Read rest of article here:
http://wayangparty.com/?p=9694