The red-headed document entitled "Letter on Ning Zetao's Returning to the Navy for Training" is entitled "Swimming Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport", which clearly lists Ning Zetao's actions in violation of the relevant regulations of the State General Administration of Sport and the China Swimming Association, including "unauthorized endorsement of advertisements", "disobedience to the national team's competition arrangements" and "refusal to participate in relay event qualifiers".
A reporter learned from the swimming center that this official letter is true and Ning Zetao is no longer a member of the national swimming team. The date of the official letter is 20161018, after the Rio Olympic Games. However, the swimming center official has not made any official explanation on this matter.
Since the end of the Rio Olympic Games, Ning Zetao has faded out of the arena, and it is difficult to find him in various activities of the swimming team returning from the Olympic Games. Since September 9 last year, he has also missed a series of national team competitions, such as the National Swimming Championships, Beijing Short-course World Cup Series, Asian Championships and World Short-course Championships.
After the official letter was released today, Ning Zetao responded this afternoon that he didn't know there was such an official letter until a friend forwarded this article to him online. Ning Zetao revealed that after the Rio Olympic Games last year, due to physical reasons, he submitted a "Statement on Quitting the National Swimming Team" to the national swimming team on September 19. At that time, Xu Qi, captain of the national team, accepted his statement and said that he would report to Wang Lusheng, director of the swimming management center as soon as possible. However, after submitting the briefing, he never received any feedback or notice from the national team.