Paralympic Coach Refuses to Hand Over Award Money to Superiors

Chinese coach Wang Chengrong is being pressured by his superiors to hand over over 1 million in award money he received from the China Disabled Persons' Foundation.

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Paralympics gold medal coach who refuses to hand over million RMB award suspended

Two of Coach Wang Chengrong’s athletes won 3 gold medals and 1 silver at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. In 2011, the China Disabled Persons’ Foundation rewarded Wang Chengrong with 1,499,100 yuan. After learning of this, Wang Chengrong’s work unit [employer], Qinghai Sports Number 1 Team, repeatedly asked that he pass the award money up to the organization, but Wang would not. After that, the organization suspended him from work, and the sports team leader Yang Haining says they have other methods if he continues to refuse to hand over the money.

Chinese coach Wang Chengrong is being pressured by his superiors to hand over over 1 million in award money he received from the China Disabled Persons' Foundation.

Comments on Sina Weibo:

浮伤年华微博:

It was his own work… [the work unit] is using its power to cheat him, a bunch of shit. [怒]

厨神小当家00:

More like leader of the Qinghai Robbery Team.

Madam利_Lisa:

Ridiculous! It’s his award money, why should he have to share it! [哼]

独爱孔雀蓝:

In any impoverished area, anyone would covet this much money, much less a leader with power. If he doesn’t split him some, he will be upset and even angry with humiliation.

carol-hwk:

A scoundrel’s logic, a robber’s trick!

leecl06_90i:

I don’t know if the leader is a psycho or if a psycho is the leader!

嘟桃屋喵:

Really looking forward to the organization’s other methods~ Team leader, waiting for what you’ll say next! [兔子] The people are waiting to see~

阳光的省略号:

潜水的浮游生物:

This is distribution system with Chinese characteristics, where the hardship may be one person’s, but the credit must be everyone’s. [嘘]

蔡绪龙:

Hand it over and it’s gone. What the country gives you is yours. At worst, just quit. There are a lot of coaches outside of the country, all of them there because they were unable to continue developing [their careers] domestically, but are developing very well abroad. [兔子]

夕阳下的烤地瓜:

The team leader is also a disabled person, right? If he wants money, then he should himself go compete and win! If he’s not a disabled person, then first disable yourself and then go compete…

黑屋Mihee:

This is indeed how it is… The country of course expects to get a share of the money for the athletes it trains, because the country has also contributed. Regardless of whether it contributed enough, you not thinking of them is unacceptable. It’s just like you winning the championship and not thanking the country.

Ann-金安小可:

A typical leadership style befitting the current state of the country.

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  1. Now we know why he works on the paralympic team. Working for these guys costs an arm and a leg. Ba dum ching!

  2. He should hand over a percentage. His Para-Olympics work is not totally separate from his regular work. For sure, his position on the Olympic team is due to his work and in no small part to the influence of the Quinghai Sports Bureau. I’d hand 20-30% and call it a management fee. The Chinese posters have never worked in any Professional Sports capacity or they’d realize that some % has to be given out.

    • This was not regular pay. This was a cash reward for his contributions towards sports by a foundation.

    • Agreed. A former semi-pro rugby player myself in my teens, we were always told to expect such clauses in our contracts if we made it any further. People are talking about the greed of the organisation but in reality its the greed of the individual – a very typical Chinese characteristic. Anyone who knows anything about top level sport knows that a solo effort is a failed effort. You always require the full support of others (many others.) We also dont know the full story here, just what ‘greedy mcgreed’ said… maybe they paid his wages why he was off on his athletic jaunts. Anyway, isnt it the success thats important in sport… the money is just an extra?

  3. So the officials at the work unit wants a couple of extra Rolexes each, eh? Fuck them.

    Pro tip: this is not how you retain talent.

  4. Weird article with very little information. It makes a world of difference whether he kept the money for himself or shared it with his athletes and/or used it for their benefit. Also, if the ‘work unit’ is actively supporting the athletes and have provided facilities, training and financial support in the past it seems reasonable that the money is divided. More info?

    • I don’t meant to sound like an outright ass, so please read carefully. But it really wouldn’t matter what he did with his money. Because it’s HIS money. HIS award. Did they give the award to the team or did they give it to this man?

      • I guess the best analogy would be something like this:

        If you’re a prof/research fellow at a university, and win the nobel prize – do you give the winning mil.5 to the university?

        • Oh, I suppose I’ll answer that here too:

          The answer is no. It’s theirs. Although, they commonly donate the winnings to “benefit scientific, cultural, or humanitarian causes.”

  5. Sounds like unfair dismissal to me. Doubt the Chinese courts will sort this out for him. Useless…

  6. Plenty of other countries would take him as a coach

  7. Everything depends on what is written in the contract. I think that in the end he will have to give some of the money – but hopefully most of it he will be able to keep for himself.

    Some Chinese sportsmen are successful in defending their prize money. For example, Li Na pays to government about 10% from her winnings (while in the beginning of her career she had to give two-thirds). Can you imagine how much it is, taking in account that she so far has earned more than 7 million USD (in prize money only!)

    • I thought she was key in pioneering that new winnings-split scheme where the athlete gets to keep more but in turn receives less support from the government. I think some Chinese athletes get to choose or something.

  8. Land of the corrupt, home of the tyranny

  9. If you work for a company in USA, your invention becomes your company’s intellectual property (you have to sign it off to company). As for award, the university let you keep it. But private corporation is different story (at least in USA).

    • you can’t beleive the number of mainland chinese who still can’t understand this when they arrive in the usa. the only exception was wei jing sheng who was a CIA agent where the usa let him own the rights to all the worthless junk he wrote

    • That’s not entirely true. There are specifics as to what you own and what you don’t. For example, whether it relates directly to what your normal work day involves – whether your time spent was 100% personal time or work time in developing your invention, and what your contract explicitly defines as ownership for inventions during employment.

      Generally without contractual specifics I think it goes something like this: If you develop/patent something on your own time that is not directly related to your daily work related IP, it’s yours. If it’s related to your work IP and company can prove your work facilities/environment/tasks contributed to the invention, it’s something that would likely go through court and could go either way. If it’s something you worked on during paid work hours, it’s theirs.

  10. Even worse than the mob. Bastards!

  11. they have no right to force him to donate the money!!

  12. Those assholes are worse then robbers. At least when a robber comes to mug you or take your possessions, they’re being upfront about it!

    These are just bullies trying to make a quick buck off of the coach’s work and take his money for absolutely no reason!

    And if there is a reason, then their actions have only made them look guilty in the eyes of the public. Very poorly handled by his former superiors, no matter how you view this!

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