USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文双语Français
Home / Sports

'Pulling teeth from the tiger'

By Shi Futian | China Daily | Updated: 2018-12-03 07:46

Liu vows to return Team China to the front of the global pack

Liu Guoliang has been lovingly dubbed "the fatty who doesn't know how to play table tennis", but he's still the man most trusted to return China to ping-pong prominence at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

When the 42-year-old stepped down as head coach of Team China in June 2017, it left the once formidable squad facing huge pressure from rivals like Germany, Japan and South Korea and fueled doubts that it would be a vaunted force in Tokyo.

'Pulling teeth from the tiger'

Today's Top News

Editor's picks

Most Viewed

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US