Article: Li Xiaoxia Becomes Olympic Champion

[lgreggs]

You can view the page at http://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/forum/content.php?648-Li-Xiaoxia-Olympic-Champion-Ding-Ning-London-2012-Table-Tennis

 

[Matt Hetherington]

It's sad to see such a hard working and gentle personality be crushed in the most important match of her life. It was hard to watch.

In saying that, I hope the controversy does not detract the marvelous efforts of Li Xiaoxia, a gold medal well earned and well deserved.

 

[loiclac]

I think the red card comes from the fact that empire have to avoid being argued in fear of in fact getting insulted in a foreign language. the empire showed the reason why she sanctioned so further discussions was useless. there was a case i think in the past of a Belgian player throwing insults in French at English speaking umpire. the serve itself looks high on the replay but it might be just a case of dropping the ball instead of throwing it and hitting it further down.

 

[YosuaYosan]

Congrats to Li Xiaoxia nevertheless!

Ding Ning seems devastated in the end when she walks away after her loss.. It's.. very sad :\

 

[lionman315]

i think the umpire was not good because she declared fault 3 times against ding and im thought there was no fault in her serve

 

[strideforward]

Indeed Li Xiaoxia dominated the game from the very beginning. I should say without the umpire's penalty, it is still hard for Ding Ning to win. During that game Li xiaoxia played even better than the WCCT of 2013. The interruptions from the umpire affected both players, for Li xiaoxia it was a pause to pursue her consecutive scoring- You can see everytime the umpire gave a penalty to Ding Ning, Li Xiao xia dropped points continuously. So it is true that the umpire had an impact on the game, but is it wrong to follow the rules while judging a game?

 

[strideforward]

The red card comes from the two yellow card, the first one for time delay when it's time for 3rd game, the second for sweeping sweat at an improper time point(that is, the sum of the two players' score is not mutiples of 6). For the severs, two of them are too skewed to her body and one is not high enough.

I think the red card comes from the fact that empire have to avoid being argued in fear of in fact getting insulted in a foreign language. the empire showed the reason why she sanctioned so further discussions was useless. there was a case i think in the past of a Belgian player throwing insults in French at English speaking umpire. the serve itself looks high on the replay but it might be just a case of dropping the ball instead of throwing it and hitting it further down.