On February 7, 17-year-old Su Yiming participated in the final of the men's slope steeplechase of snowboarding and completed the "1800" difficult action and won the silver medal, creating the best result in the history of the project for the Chinese team. On February 10, the referee of the match admitted in an interview with the media that the winners had scored high, saying that "this mistake is like Maradona's 'hand of God' at the World Cup."
Su Yiming picked silver CFP
The Slovenian chief referee, Iztok Shumatić, admitted in an interview with Whitelines that in the referees' replay angle, canada's Max Parrott missed the tackle and that the score had been submitted when they recognized the mistake.
"It's really like maradona's 'Hand of God' at the 1986 FIFA World Cup, and from our point of view we don't see Parrott's 'trick (lapse)'."
But Schumatic also said that if the referee saw a mistake, then the score would definitely be different, but the final score would be determined by many factors - "In my opinion Parrott still gave a crazy performance, he controlled everything." ”
With only a difference of 2.26 points, Su Yiming was in second place, and if according to Shumatic, Parot should be deducted 3 points according to the rules. After deducting these 3 points, Su Yiming should win the gold medal, the bronze medalist who is also a Canadian with Max should be the silver medal, and Max Parrott will get the bronze medal.
Slovenia's referee, Iztok Shumatić
On the 7th, in the men's steeplechase final of the Beijing Winter Olympics snowboarding that began at 12 noon, Chinese athlete Su Yiming won a silver medal, after he had created the history of Chinese athletes breaking into the final of the project for the first time. At that time, some netizens expressed doubts, hugging Su Yiming unevenly, "Why is it that only Su Yiming completed the 1800-degree turn, but did not have a high score for Canadian players?" Is the referee's score fair? ”
Regarding the "hand of God" of the referee chief, in fact, there is also the suspicion of "throwing the pot" of the legendary star Maradona who has passed away. As we all know, in Maradona's era, high-definition camera technology was not developed, and football games were not scoring events, and it was necessary to maintain the continuity of the game, and it was permissible for referees to rely on the naked eye and subjective judgment to make penalties and lead to certain misjudgments. The fans' hype about "misjudgment is also part of the charm of the game" also stems from this. But today, when football games have introduced high-definition camera technology and require referees to repeatedly watch the replay to determine the penalty, as a scoring item, there has been a major misjudgment, and the "hand of God" as a defense is somewhat weak.
At the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Parrote won a silver medal in this event, but in December 2018 was diagnosed with Hodgekins lymphoma, forced to miss the entire 2018-19 season, and underwent 12 rounds of chemotherapy in 6 months, and quickly returned to the X Games in June and July 2019, and immediately won the gold medal in the big jump, and his deeds have also inspired countless snowboarders, after winning the gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Su Yiming also congratulated Parot for the first time.
The original text of the interview
For the problem of low scores reflected by netizens, Su Yiming said that he did not care, he believes that every athlete who can appear in the Winter Olympic Games can be regarded as the first. Su Yiming also congratulated the two Canadian team athletes who also climbed the podium: "They are all my idols, and it is a great honor to stand on the podium with them. ”
Su Yiming's Japanese coach Sato also said that perhaps Su Yiming had some small mistakes in the game, affecting the score, but he was not sure, but just happy, the first time in the Olympic Games, he can win the silver medal, Su Yiming is good enough.
Upstream journalist Tang Hao