Manager Wang moved to another post
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August 17, 2011, Wednesday
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WANG Chunlu, who stepped down late on Monday as China's short-track speed skating team manager, has been nominated as an official with the sport's ruling body.
"Wang will take up a post at one of the executive departments of our winter sports administrative center, assisting the director in operating training and competitions," the center's spokesman Jiang Shicai told Sports.cn by telephone.
According to Jiang, Liu Hao, deputy director of the short track department, will take care of the national team until a new team manager is named.
A former Olympic medalist, Wang Chunlu was shunted from the manager's position after an internal brawl with four-time Winter Olympic champion Wang Meng at a training camp in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on July 24.
Wang Chunlu, who was appointed team manager after a successful career in which she won three world championship gold medals and a 2002 Olympic bronze, read an open letter yesterday, apologizing for her part in the brawl. "Our short-track national team was once a solid unit, but the recent incident between me and Wang Meng has greatly mired the image of the team. I feel deeply sorry about it," the statement said.
Wang Meng was earlier expelled from the national team and banned from international and national competitions.
Famed for her fiery temper, Wang Meng is China's most prolific Winter Olympic athlete, winning three gold medals at the Vancouver Games last year and one gold, one silver and a bronze in Turin 2006.
"Wang will take up a post at one of the executive departments of our winter sports administrative center, assisting the director in operating training and competitions," the center's spokesman Jiang Shicai told Sports.cn by telephone.
According to Jiang, Liu Hao, deputy director of the short track department, will take care of the national team until a new team manager is named.
A former Olympic medalist, Wang Chunlu was shunted from the manager's position after an internal brawl with four-time Winter Olympic champion Wang Meng at a training camp in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on July 24.
Wang Chunlu, who was appointed team manager after a successful career in which she won three world championship gold medals and a 2002 Olympic bronze, read an open letter yesterday, apologizing for her part in the brawl. "Our short-track national team was once a solid unit, but the recent incident between me and Wang Meng has greatly mired the image of the team. I feel deeply sorry about it," the statement said.
Wang Meng was earlier expelled from the national team and banned from international and national competitions.
Famed for her fiery temper, Wang Meng is China's most prolific Winter Olympic athlete, winning three gold medals at the Vancouver Games last year and one gold, one silver and a bronze in Turin 2006.
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