2026-10-10 Ecns.cn Editor：Mo Honge
‘Loving and respecting athletes – including supporting their reasonable needs – should be upheld at all times. Freedom, however, is always built on sound rules. Watching games has boundaries – fandom has boundaries. Passion must be kept in moderation. Use the positive energy of sports to cultivate a social mindset of self-respect, confidence, rationality, calmness, and kindness and friendship at all times. Let passion return to rationality – let sports return to purity.’
(ECNS) — Three people – fans of an opposing team – have been placed in administrative detention in Beijing for insulting a Chinese national table tennis coach during the 2026 WTT China Smash, police said Saturday. Shijingshan District police said in a statement that they found that 20 people supporting an opposing team had gathered to publicly insult the coach during the tournament on Monday.
Among them, two women surnamed Yang and Li, both 19, and a 16-year-old girl surnamed Tao repeatedly verbally abused the coach as the team passed through a walkway at the venue. They also posted insulting remarks online and shared videos of the verbal abuse filmed at the scene, which police said had a serious negative social impact. Police said the three were detained in accordance with the law because of the severity of their violations, while the other 17 people involved were reprimanded.
