From a 7th-Place Low to Climbing Back: How China's Men's Team Dug Out of the Valley
From the 1988 Seoul flop to regaining the Swaythling Cup at the 1995 Tianjin Worlds, China's men's team walked the hardest seven years. This article revisits Cai Zhenhua's reforms and how a team climbed out of a slump by rebuilding the system — not by waiting for a genius.