Malicious push and shove caused controversy, Denmark coach Jonathan apologized to Guoyu coach Yang Ming jqknews

Jonathan (red) apologizes to Yang Ming

In the mixed doubles 1/8 final of the Danish Badminton Open the day before yesterday, the Danish coach Thomas shoved Chinese coach Yang Ming on the spot. The reason was that Yang Ming negotiated a dispute with the referee on the spot, and Thomas believed that the referee’s penalty was correct. , when he was emotional, he reached out and pushed Coach Yang Ming.

In this game, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong were sentenced to 9 serving violations. In the end, the IELTS team defeated the Danish team. After the game, the Chinese Badminton Association submitted a letter of complaint to the BWF, with two main points. The first is to seriously question the fairness of the serving referee in this game. As world champions, Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong have never received so many serving violations in previous international competitions. The Chinese Badminton Association also pointed out that during the game, the Danish combination was suspected of serving too high, but the serving referee completely turned a blind eye. The second is that the chief referee of the game did not stop and punish the Danish coach’s physical provocation in time. Judging from the live footage, the coach maliciously pushed and shoved Chinese coach Yang Ming and behaved badly, but the referee did not remind him, warn him or give him a penalty.

Apology issued by the Danish badminton team

At present, the BWF has not yet officially responded. Jonathan, the head coach of the Danish team, who has always had a good relationship with the Chinese team, has taken the initiative to express his apology to Coach Yang Ming and assured that such a thing will not happen again. Regarding the apology of the Danish coach Jonathan, Yang Ming expressed his respect for Jonathan, but also reiterated his position: “We have a very good friendship with Coach Jonathan, but I think this is the personal behavior of Coach Thomas. The coach doesn’t need to apologize to me for that, what we want is a personal apology from Coach Thomas.” Jonathan explained that Coach Thomas is no longer in the Odense division, he has returned to Copenhagen after Thursday’s game, so he is still in Oden As the head coach, Jonathan of Sai took the lead in finding coach Yang Ming to apologize. Jonathan said he will further communicate with Thomas to try to facilitate the two sides to shake hands at the French Open next week. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Zhiling)