▲ Ahn Hyun-soo, technical coach for the Chinese short track team
Chinese short track hero Wang Meng countered the criticism of Ahn Hyeon-soo (Russian name Victor Ahn), the technical coach of the Chinese short track team, in Korea, saying, "Korea has no right to criticize."
According to an observer network on the 9th, Meng Wang appeared on the Internet video platform Soho Hanwi the day before and said, "I brought him (Coach Ahn) from Russia, not Korea. I brought him who wants to," he said.
"At this time, no one offered him a leadership position," Wang Meng added.
Wang Meng's video has been viewed more than 200 million times as it has been on Weibo (Chinese version of Twitter) as a hot topic search term.
The relationship between Wang Meng and Coach Ahn has been going on for over 20 years.
Meng Wang, the former general manager of the Chinese short track national team, has been acquainted with coach Ahn since 2002, and in 2018 offered her a position as a technical coach, who is the head coach of the Chinese team.
Coach Ahn decided to join the Chinese team in 2019, and announced his retirement in April 2020 the following year.
In Korea, when Korean athletes such as Hwang Dae-heon (Gangwon Provincial Office) and Lee Jun-seo (Korea National University), the world No. 1 players in the short track race at the Beijing Olympics, were eliminated due to an ambiguous decision, controversy arose over the biased decision. I went to Coach Ahn.
Some netizens raised the level of criticism, such as swearing at Ahn's family, and Kochi Ahn himself came forward and appealed to Ahn to refrain from accusing his family.
On Weibo in China, hashtags such as 'Korean coach' and 'Seoan Hyun-soo's criticism of Korea's family' appeared as popular search terms.
Chinese netizens said, "In Korea, Hyun-soo Ahn's family suffers from malicious comments," such as translating malicious comments directed at Coach Ahn posted on the Korean portal site into Chinese.
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