Jenny Lang Ping missed a 2004 Volleyball Convention after losing what in China?

Jenny Lang Ping missed a 2004 volleyball convention after losing her green card in China.

The mishap involved the U.S. permanent-resident document that Lang Ping needed for international travel and re-entry. Although she was born in China and remains one of its most celebrated athletes, she had built a substantial coaching career in the United States and lived there with her daughter.

Lang Ping is often confused with the Chinese team’s 2004 Olympic campaign. China won women’s volleyball gold in Athens that year, but Lang Ping was not the head coach; she later became head coach of the U.S. women’s team in 2005. She guided the United States to silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Her career later produced a unique Olympic milestone: she won gold as a player for China in 1984 and as China’s coach in 2016, becoming the first person to win Olympic volleyball gold in both roles.