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Post by sk8erfan on Feb 2, 2015 5:35:55 GMT -8
Here's an interesting update on Wang Meng. She hasn't retired and she's started her own business called Wang Meng Sport Culture Company, which sells sport wear and skating blades.
Female Chinese Speed Skater Quietly Starts Her Own Business Wang Meng, a celebrated Chinese speed skater and Winter Olympic champion, quietly began her career in sports business in her hometown of Qitaihe, located in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, in June 2014 despite still being actively involved in Chinese speed skating.
Establishing a sports industry company in her own name at the end of June of last year, Wang started her undertaking with an investment of 80 million yuan (U.S. $12.9 million). Setting a fine example for sports figures everywhere, whether retired or semi-retired — or not at all, in her case — Wang underwent the transition from female athlete to young entrepreneur without a hitch.
The speed skater expressed that she learned a lot from her recent start-up experience, which proved to be quite different from all her previous experiences of sport and training. Wang indicated that her newly sprung career has reshaped her character and cultivated her mind.
"You could call me 'young pioneer,'" said Wang playfully while appearing in public on January 22, 2015.
"Before, I only had one ultimate goal: to strive to be a world champion in short track speed skating and contribute more to my country. Now, the situation is really different. I need to do more to make profits, because I am the employer with many employees to support. Most people can afford to take a moment, sit around and do nothing. But for me, if I do nothing, I feel like I have committed a crime," said Wang.
Having suffered a serious injury during her regular training, Wang missed the chance to participate in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Therefore, while beginning her entrepreneurial work in Heilongjiang Province last June, Wang decided to pursue further studies, enrolling in an MBA program at Renmin University of China (RBS), a top university whose business school was China's first to offer an MBA program and which is renowned as a cradle of business education in Beijing. Constantly jumping back and forth between Beijing and Heilongjiang, the short track speed skater had created quite a lifestyle for herself — one which she admits she enjoyed quite a bit.
Read the Rest of the Article: www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/people/sportswomen/1501/2189-1.htm
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