Up to now, China swimming team has won 18 world champions, while Sun Yang won 14, but was banned because of the "anti-inspection incident". This matter has always been confusing. No matter what the truth is, the negative impact on Sun Yang is irreversible. Ning Zetao, too, was expelled from the national team in the "endorsement incident" and announced his retirement. However, after he retired, he did not enter the entertainment circle or join foreign teams. So what is his situation now?
Ning Zetao Experience1993 On March 6, Ning Zetao was born in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, and was a former Chinese People's Liberation Army naval swimmer. He studied swimming in Henan Stadium since he was a child. By chance, the coach found that the child was very talented in swimming. He consulted with his parents so that he could become a professional swimmer, and he was not sure that he would win the world championship in the future. Ning Zetao's parents really like his son, and the professional coach has said so. Winning the championship is also an honor.
So he sent his son to learn swimming. In 2004, Ning Zetao, aged 1 1, became an athlete of the second team of Henan sports industry. Three years later, he was elected to the navy swimming team, under the guidance of Ye Jin, the national coach and captain of the navy swimming team. He was balanced in all aspects, so he concentrated on medley and later turned to short freestyle because of a knee injury. Ning Zetao is of suitable age, with a height of 1 m 9 1, and belongs to the world short-distance freestyle with medium height.
With good muscle lines and tenacious psychological quality, even Chen Dou, the former head coach of the national swimming team, thinks that he has the qualities of a world-class short-distance athlete. Before the endorsement event came out, although he didn't win the Olympic champion, he did well. 20 13 National Swimming Championships and National Games broke the record of 100 meter freestyle held by Chen Zuo and Lu. Then, on September 9 of the same year, after winning the flying fish war by rewriting the Asian record the day before, he set a new Asian record in the 50-meter freestyle preliminaries.
20 14 Incheon Asian Games, in the men's 50m freestyle preliminaries, Ning Zetao set the Asian Games record by 2 1.95 seconds. 20 15 Kazan world swimming championships, Ning Zetao won the men's 100 meter freestyle. It is not easy for a champion in China to win the championship in this event. Enough to see Ning Zetao's talent, is promising. Therefore, he has attracted the attention of China people. Ning Zetao is not only talented, but also well-known, and his commercial value has been rising since this competition. Various endorsements continue.
Caught in an endorsement storm and was fired. At the beginning of 20 16, the products he endorsed were signed before the World Championships. As an on-the-job athlete, whether Ning Zetao speaks or participates in the program, he needs the consent of the main center. Because he had to get the approval of the navy sports team in the navy, there was no problem, but there was a problem when he changed his office. 20 14 Ning Zetao signed an endorsement contract with a yogurt brand in Yili, which was agreed by the swimming center and paid as cost sharing according to regulations.
After the World Championships in Kazan, Ning Zetao and Yili agreed to cooperate, and so did the head of the swimming center. Not long after leaving, Xin signed a collective contract with Mengniu. This was in conflict with Ning Zetao's previous signing of Yili, so he didn't sign it until Yili's advertisement was broadcast. Swimming center to demand accountability. They think that Ning Zetao's behavior belongs to receiving advertisements privately, and ask him to stop advertising cooperation with Yili and apologize.
Ning Zetao felt that he was right and would have to pay liquidated damages if he stopped cooperation, so he submitted an advertisement for retirement on the grounds of health and family. Later, in the CCTV documentary "Turning Point", Ning Zetao recalled that he had been targeted since the conflict appeared. He was asked to suspend the national team training and return directly to the navy for standby, so the training plan was in a semi-stagnant state. The international team's meal card was degaussed and asked to move out of the apartment. The head coach no longer appears in the pool.
After many twists and turns, under such circumstances, how to participate in the Rio Olympic Games and achieve good results? So 20 16, 10 With the announcement that Ning Zetao was expelled from the national team, he was speechless about his poor performance. Have to leave, in fact, like Ning Zetao in many endorsement disputes, Sun Yang has two contracts that are also in conflict. However, it is not as big as Ning Zetao's, but what people didn't expect was that after Ning Zetao quit the national team, he did not enter the entertainment circle or join foreign teams.
Conclusion: It was not until the personnel changes in the swimming center that he returned to the national team on 20 17 and made some modest achievements. But it had a great influence on him. This promising athlete announced his retirement on his 26th birthday. Today, he lives a low-key life and only says that he will not step into the entertainment circle. Some time ago, Ning Zetao, a native of Zhengzhou, donated 200,000 yuan for his love during the rainstorm in Henan.