BEIJING: Chinese Olympic table tennis champion Chen Qi's temper tantrum at a recent tournament did not amuse the country's famously strict sports discipline chiefs.
With echoes of the Cultural Revolution, and just two years out from the Beijing Olympics, Chen was ordered to be “re-educated” as part of an extraordinary set of punishments that have cast light on how China moulds its world-beating table tennis squad.
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