On the evening of February 7, suspense broke out in the Beijing Winter Olympic Short Track Arena, from the men's 1 km quarterfinals, semi-finals to the final, and there were constantly scenes of athletes being punished for violating the law. Almost every time an athlete crosses the finish line, the audience waits nervously for the referee's final decision. In particular, in the men's 1 km final, Liu Shaolin, who crossed the finish line first, was shown a yellow card, a dispute that also triggered a complaint from the Hungarian delegation.
In the end, the International Skating Federation upheld the judgment of the on-site referee and decisively awarded the gold medal that should have belonged to China to The Chinese player Ren Ziwei. In addition to the athletes who compete for gold and silver in the TV shot, the most frequent appearance is the referee who wears large headphones and stares intently at the sideline screen. This white-haired old man, many spectators remembered him fondly, as if he were the most powerful man on the field.
The Old British man's name is Peter Worth, and with the addition of this Winter Olympics, he is already the referee of the short track events of the three Winter Olympic Games. Everyone was very convinced of his penalty this year, and the Chinese team won the medals he deserved. Compared with the dirty behavior of Koreans on ice at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the referee team was widely recognized.
However, why do the same referees have such different winds in the two competitions in Pyeongchang and Beijing, is this the benefit of the host?
On the track of this event, the organizing committee installed an ultra-high-speed 4K track camera with a speed of 90 kilometers per hour, and the athletes sliding at a maximum speed of about 70 kilometers per hour, the lens can be followed without dead ends, and every detail is enlarged and restored. Liu Shaolin's two fouls, the bend cut and the cross cut of the finish line, are clearly recorded, leaving a complete record for the ruling.
In the last session in Pyeongchang, many details were concealed by the hosts, and the South Koreans gave public television signals, questioning whether it was more difficult for one party to get the record data of all the camera positions than to ascend to the sky. The chief magistrate can only restore the process according to the existing replay, and it is true that the Koreans are very unruly in this regard, so it has caused a lot of controversy to award penalties.
In Pyeongchang, not only did the Chinese short track team suffer losses, South Korea was the enemy of almost all countries, and repeatedly used the advantages of the host to suppress the opponent in the competition, which had the ironic action of Canadian athletes cleaning the podium when receiving the award, they were like the Chinese team, they were sentenced to fouls 9 times, and they were the biggest victims.
In the men's 1000m semifinals on February 7, south Korea's Hwang Dae-hyun was sent off, and the South Korean team also filed a complaint.
In its reply to the South Korean delegation's appeal, the International Skating Federation wrote: Huang Daxian surpassed China's Ren Ziwei Li Wenlong in the inner road, and the violation of the overtaking led to physical contact, and the first result of crossing the finish line was invalid.
In addition to the high-speed camera's restoration of the truth, there is a fatal reason for the South Korean team to collapse. In the world ice racing field, the Korean team has always had a prominent advantage. This also makes them make countless enemies, coupled with their misdeeds and cleverness, it has made many countries join forces to start "cleaning up" them.
The biggest controversy between South Korea and the United States took place at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, where the story of Apollo and Kim Dong-sung was paroded by South Korean internationals Ahn Jung-hwan and Lee Jong-so at the 2002 Fifa World Cup. Russia mass naturalized South Korean athletes before the Sochi Winter Olympics. Enemies around the world launched a counterattack after Pyeongchang was targeted, and the International Skating Federation began to use rules revisions to plug the loopholes where South Koreans stole the championship.
The new rules have strict rules for the overtaking of the players, two meters before entering the corner to lead half a body to overtake from the inner lane, forced to squeeze in and a body collision is considered a foul, with this provision, the Korean team's previous ambiguous penalty has become a one-sided disaster area.
Hungary's Liu Shaolin's foul is also a mistake made under the new rules, this deadly blue line has only appeared on the track in recent years, and with a reference line, the traces of fouls are difficult to hide.
As can be seen from the short track since the start of the tournament, because of the game in China, there are many fewer hidden and vague operation zones, and the results are more transparent, which also makes the referees of the original Pyeongchang make a completely different result from the last Winter Olympics.
It is not that the ruling favors the host, but that it restores the original face of competitive sports. On the other hand, the improvement of the rules has hit South Korea hard, which is also the consequence of Koreans' conceit and lack of help, in a fair playing environment, we are waiting for the next gold medal to be produced!