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BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhua) — Former Olympic champion Kong Linghui has been suspended as head coach of the Chinese women’s table tennis team following a lawsuit over a gambling debt filed by a Singaporean hotel, the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced on Tuesday.
Kong was ordered to return home from the World Championships in Dusseldorf, Germany, to aid an investigation into the matter.
A Singaporean hotel where Kong and his family and friends had stayed in 2015 filed a lawsuit against Kong in a Hong Kong court. Media reports said Kong borrowed S$1 million (721,200 US dollars) from the hotel, but failed to pay back the debt in full.
Kong admitted on his Weibo account (China’s twitter-like micr…
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