【双语阅读】威尔仕健身岌岌可危，知名基金因何弃如敝履

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Desperate members of China’s failed upmarket gym chain Will’s Fitness are crowdsourcing operational updates on social media after its collapse in November 2024 left millions of yuan in unpaid refunds and coaches working illegally in borrowed spaces. 从2024年12月起，社交媒体小红书成了一个特殊群体“威尔仕难民”相互分享信息的主要渠道。他们是全国连锁健身品牌威尔仕健身的会员，很多人办了超长年限的健身卡，或者买了大笔金额的私教课。威尔仕健身于去年11月开始突然大面积关店，让这些健身会员神经紧绷，或是退费无门，或是辗转于仍在营业的少数门店。 Since December, displaced members, who refer to themselves as “Will’s refugees” have been using the social media platform Xiaohongshu to track the gym’s disintegration through real-time spreadsheets. These crowdsourced documents log which of the remaining 12 Shanghai locations still have working showers, and wh ………………………………