Former Chinese Short Track National Team General Director Wang Mang(37·photo), who first offered Viktor Ahn(Ahn Hyun-soo·37)the job of technical coach of the Chinese Short Track National Team, countered that “Korea does not deserve criticism”over the criticism of Viktor Ahn in South Korea.
On the 8th, Wang Meng appeared on the Chinese internet video platform Xu Huhan, saying,”I brought the coach from Russia, not from Korea, “and”I brought him back from Russia, where he declared his retirement and wanted to have a stage for himself.” “No one offered him the leadership position at this time,”he said, “Who offered him the coaching position? Immediately proposed by China, ” he added.
When Viktor Ahn retired from Russia, he did not offer a coaching job in Korea, so South Korea is not worthy of criticism. Wang Meng’s remarks reached the popular search terms of Weibo, a Chinese social network service(SNS), with more than 200 million views.
The relationship between Wang Meng and Viktor is more than 20 years old. Wang Meng has been friendly with Viktor Ahn since 2002, and in 2018, he offered him the position of Technical Coach, the senior coach of the Chinese team. Viktor Ahn promised to join the Chinese team in 2019, and declared retirement in April 2020.
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