China's sports authorities clear diving manager's name
28/10/2008 16:23
Chinese sports authorities have cleared their Olympic diving team manager
of embezzlement charges.
Zhou Jihong, China's first Olympic diving champion
who has been the administrator of the star-studded Chinese team since 2000, was
accused of embezzling several million yuan of prize money which was supposed to
go to coaches.
Yu Fen, a Tsinghua University diving coach, tipped off the
China State General Administration of Sport (GASC) on Jan. 30, 2008 for Zhou's
alleged embezzlement.
The GASC's discipline bureau said they found no
wrongdoing in the Chinese team's distribution of prize money.
Yu, a vocal
critic of Zhou's management, has churned out a dozen of Olympic and world
champions, including Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing, first as a Chinese national
team coach and then as head coach of the prestigious Tsinghua University.
"My
students have won numerous gold and silver medals in international and domestic
competitions in the past decade," Yu told Xi'an Evening News. "I was supposed to
collect several million yuan from the Chinese team as bonuses for my efforts. As
a matter of fact, I have only got 157,000 yuan (23,000 US. dollars)."
Xinhua
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