BEIJING -- China's national table tennis

team will give Olympic medalist Wang Hao counseling after he

reportedly got into a fight with a security guard for trying to

stop him from urinating outside a karaoke club.

Local media reports last week quoted witnesses as saying

that the two-time Olympic singles silver medalist had emerged

drunk from a karaoke club on Thursday and come to blows with

the security guard when he tried to urinate outside the

building.

"I am the famous Wang Hao! I am the world champion! Does it

matter if I beat you?" shouted the 24-year-old, according to a

witness quoted by the papers.

China's national table tennis team played down the incident

and said that Wang, who also won a team gold at the Beijing

Games, had merely had a heated exchange of words.

"There was no drunkenness or brawling. There was just an

argument," Monday's Shanghai Morning Post quoted China national

team manager Huang Biao as saying.

"Because Wang is a celebrity, the story has been

amplified."

Wang, a marquee player in China's premier table tennis

league, would nonetheless face punishment from his

army-affiliated club Bayi, the paper said, quoting the club's

coach Wang Tao, without providing further details.

Wang told state television the controversy had played a

part in his loss during a regular league match over the

weekend.

"It taught me that I have to be very careful about anything

I say or do," Wang told state broadcaster CCTV.