Olympic table tennis champ says never 'officially informed' about fines

Fan, who took the men's singles title in Paris this year, announced on Friday he was quitting the WTT World Tour, saying he could not "afford" to pay fines under new participation rules. Fellow Chinese Olympian Chen Meng, the women's singles champion in Tokyo and Paris, also said she would pull out of the circuit. But in a statement, the WTT said that the rules were "consistent, not new." "The rules referenced by Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng are not newly introduced," the WTT said in a statement online...