In the men's 1000m short track speed skating competition at the Winter Olympics held on the evening of February 7, Beijing time, South Korea's Huang Daxian was awarded a foul in the semi-final Group 1 competition; in the final, Hungary's Liu Shaolin was also cancelled for a yellow card. The International Skating Federation issued a statement on its official website today saying that it rejected the South Korean team's appeal and the issue of fines, and also rejected the Hungarian team's appeal against Liu Shaolin's penalty.
So why are there so many fouls in short track speed skating? After the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, the International Skating Federation refined the rules, and the rules that were relatively rough in the past were refined, and even added red and yellow cards. That's why there were so many fouls this time.
Short-track speed skating fouls are divided into starting fouls and track skating fouls.
Athletes who deliberately slow down their preparations after the starter shouts "prepare" and cause other athletes to commit a foul will be sentenced to a "delay warning". Any part of the athlete's ice knife at the starting line or crossing the starting line will be judged as a starting foul. Only 1 starting foul is allowed in total per group of matches, and any athlete who commits a second starting foul will be judged a foul and will be required to leave the ice quickly under the guidance of the referee.
The short track speed skating track is short, multiple athletes are sliding at the same time, can be interspersed at will, so the format allows athletes to have a certain degree of physical contact, but by pushing, rushing, off the slide, slowing down, kicking people out and other ways to hinder and interfere with the progress of other athletes will be considered fouls. Athletes who are deemed fouls will be disqualified.
In short track speed skating, if the referee considers a foul to be unsafe, harmful, and dangerous, the athlete who committed the foul will be shown a yellow card, the athlete will be disqualified from the match in which the foul was committed, and will not be allowed to compete in the next round of the relevant distance event. Any skater who is shown two yellow cards in the same contest will be penalized with a red card, which will be immediately denied entry and will not be eligible to participate in the final rankings.