Table tennis, known as the “national sport” in China, has been dominated globally by Chinese athletes for over two decades, but various scandals have overshadowed the honor.
One example was how retired table tennis prodigy Zhang Jike used his girlfriend’s intimate videos to pay gambling debts.
On March 31, Li Wei’ao, a reporter for The Economic Observer in China, revealed details of how the former Chinese table tennis champion leaked his girlfriend’s videos.
Court filings show that three videos and one screenshot were leaked. Zhang admitted that he leaked the videos to pay for about 1 million yuan (approx. $145,100) out of his total debt of 5 million yuan (approx. $725,300). The reporter Li stressed that this was not just celebrity gossip but an ongoing criminal case….