Writer By Tommy Aso
About 80 Percent of the Retired Chinese Players Out of Three Hundred Thousand Retired Chinese Players Are Faced With Unemployment, Injured, Sickness, and Poverty.
In Japan, the US, and Europe Countries, the retired Olympics athletes work as celebrities by appearing on television, working employees in sponsor companies, and becoming instructors to grow younger players in junior high school, high school, and universities and take assistants from their sponsor companies. Compared to China, the many retired Chinese Olympic players are disposable players to the Chinese Communist Party and have a hard time managing their life.
The Chinese Sports players have a hard time managing their life even if they got medals in international sports events. Beijing morning post reports that there are three hundred thousand retired sports players in China and about 80 percent of them are faced with unemployment, injured, sickness, poverty, and need social assistants.
I. The Women Weightlifting Champion Has Financial Difficulties in Living After Her Retirement
Huang Yanlan who was the weightlifting champion was injured during her training with a nine-grade disability, but she received only 622 dollars in compensation and 6230 dollars in retirement. After she suffered the disability, she ended up living in poverty.
In 1998, Huang Yanlan got a champion in the Junior Weightlifting tournament in China. After that, she won the tournament for four years in a low, but Huang Yanlan got injured due to dislocation fractures of the 6th and 7th lumbar vertebrae and was diagnosed with a 9th-grade disability during the training while she prepared for the 9th National Games of China. Moreover, she trained weightlifting for four years together with injury, but she was unable to return back to the front line and retired from her career as a weightlifting player.
Although Huang Yanlan looked for a job, a recruitment staff asked her a question "Is there anything else she can do except for weightlifting?" and she lost any of her words in every job interview. It is difficult to live other than weightlifting because Huang Yanlan grew up without sufficient education other than weightlifting from a young age. The job she finally got is not long-lasting. She had no money to sustain her life and was helpless. Huang Yanlan explained in an interview with a Chinese media in 2008 that "She is a victim of the sports system in the CCP".
II. The Chinese Professional Goal Keeper Has a Hard Time Living After His Retirement
Zhang Huikang who was a professional goalkeeper and on the roster for the Chinese soccer team slated to compete in the 1988 Seoul Olympics and is a middle-aged man from Shanghai makes his meager living by selling sports-themed lottery tickets from a street kiosk after his retirement from sports life.
Zhang Huikang got and suffered from a head injury while he was playing in South China Football Team in Hong Kong in 1991. Then, he soon retired from the soccer sports life in 1993 at the age of 31 years old. He receives a monthly pension of about 20 dollars while he is working in the kiosk and running with his mother.
III. The Chinese Olympic Diver Encounters a Ruined Life After Her Retirement from Diving Sports
Tang Ying who is a 6-foot-3-inch woman from China's Hunan Province born in 1986, began training to be an Olympic diver with a local sports institution at age 12. She could not have participated in the 2004 Athens Olympics. She retired two years later and left with little to show for it except for damaged joints that when it rains and added health risks should she become pregnant.
Tang Ying tried to work as a Physical Education teacher, but she found and reported on Xinhua which is the state-run news agency in 2007 that the official offering her the job instead wanted to make intimate advances toward her.
In another incident, she tried to get a human resources job in her hometown, but recruitment staff told her that she would get the position only if she were willing to marry the CCP's official.
She is working at a clothing store for only about 120 dollars per month and selling dolls on the street in her spare time. Then, she explains to Xinhua that many of her fellow athletes become kept women.
Tang Ying was offered 15,000 dollars to enter a one-year relationship with a wealthy man, but she turned it down. She described that she would rather have a part-time job.
IV. The Gold Medalist Gymnast Chinese Man Became A Theif After His Retirement From the Gymnast Career.
Zhang Shangwu who was born in Hebei Province in northern China was chosen to participate in the national Olympic team at the age of 12. Zhang became a gymnast and won two gold medals at the 2001 Beijing Summer Universiade at 18 years old. Zhang Shagwu described on the Chinese Baido Website that he was hailed as a rising star.
But in 2002, Zhang tore his Achilles tendon during training and dashed any hope of him competing in the 2004 Athen Olympics. His instructors ignored his injury and gave him increasingly difficult moves to master. He left the national Olympic team in 2005, was unable to get any compensation, and turned to street performances.
This was a punishing life. Zhang is below the 165 centimeters height required for a prospective job as a security guard and often slept in internet cafes or under bridges. He sold his gold medals for about 15 dollars each at an antique market.
In 2007, Zhang became a thief. He was under arrest since stolen from various sports schools in Beijing and was sentenced to over four and a half years in prison.
V. The Former Weightlifter Passed Away With Debt After Her Retirement From the Weightlifting Life.
The news outlet Sina reported this June that Liu Chengyu who is a former weightlifter from northeastern China and the widow of a fellow weightlifter who passed away due to a respiratory ailment last year was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013. Her family is now 10,500 dollars in debt.
With some irony, Liu recalled how she considered herself lucky as she was one among three people in a group of 30 selected to attend a sports college in Liaoning in the late 1980s when she was 15 years old.
Lin Chengyu wants her daughter who suffers from asthma to study nutrition and live a normal life. She explained to Sina that she went to the sports college at 15 and she retired at 25 years old. This ten-year-stretch of her life was like blank space. It slipped away in an instant.
VI. The Reason Why About 80 Percent of the Retired Chinese Players Out of Three Hundred Thousand Retired Chinese Players Are Faced With Unemployment, Injured, Sickness, and Poverty.
In this paragraph, I am going to describe the reason why about 80 percent of the retired Chinese players out of three hundred thousand retired Chinese players are faced with unemployment, injured, sickness, and poverty. According to a 2010 report by the state-run media Nanjing Daily, about 45 percent of retired athletes in China become unemployed, injured, sick, and in poverty. Why do about 80 percent of retired Chinese players are faced with unemployment, injured, sickness, and poverty? Why does it go up from 45 percent to 80 percent in ten years? There are the reasons for the sports system in China.
In the developed countries such as Japan, the US, Great Britain, and so on, the retired athletes secure compensation from sponsor companies forever by appearing in TV shows, working in the sponsor company, and becoming instructors to grow younger players in junior high schools, high schools, and universities. Compared to China, The CCP adopted the national sports system to compete for the gold medals and established a rigorous training system from the prefectural, province, and municipal sports schools to training centers under the direct control of the National Sports Authority.
Many children enter junior sports schools from 5-6 years old and receive specific training while the best junior children go on to sports schools or participate in prefectural and ministry sports corps. This rigorous training regime resulted in a very small number of world champions and gold medalists; however, many Chinese athletes have a hard time living after their retirement from their sports life because the compensation for sports players focuses on only top players in the Chinese sports system. Therefore, all Chinese athletes are becoming disposable after their retirement from their sports life for the CCP and there is no such system that the sponsor companies assist the top Chinese athletes by appearing on a TV show, working in the sponsor company, and becoming the instructors to earn their money and grow youngers up.
China invests public money in player development to win. The education is secondary, athletes are separated from their families from an early age, strict practice is imposed in group life, and they are served every day of training. There are many alternatives, but there are many people who drop out due to injury and poor grades. They cannot apply to society after their retirement even if they become world champions. Many former players who do not have any skills can not find a job and are often forced into a difficult life.
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