On February 7, in the short track speed skating event of the Beijing Winter Olympics, South Korean athletes fouled out one after another, and finally the Chinese team won the gold medal on the spot.
However, after this incident, the South Korean side not only did not reflect on the mistakes of its own athletes, but instead blamed the organizer China. The South Korean media even said: There is a dark scene in this Winter Olympics!
On the 9th, our embassy in South Korea responded to the increasingly fierce "shady theory" in South Korea.
Our spokesperson mentioned in his response that the competition is completely fair and just, there is no "shady curtain" as some South Korean media and politicians call it, and we will never accept these malicious speculations about the Winter Olympics. He also hoped that the ROK would not favor these emotional remarks in order to maintain friendly relations between China and the ROK.
I believe that after the response issued by our embassy in south Korea, the South Korean side will stop some.
Looking back at the 7th event, South Korean athletes did have fouls or injuries in the competition, which led to their inability to win gold.
In the women's 500m 1/4 final on the same day, the early skating of South Korean athlete Choi Min-jing was quite smooth. But later on, she fell off the track because she didn't control her center of gravity. As a result, she lost the promotion match.
Just as the South Korean people cheered on their athletes, the unexpected situation reappeared. Park accidentally bumped into her arm during the men's 1,000m race. Although due to his excellent performance, the referee still let him reach the later semi-finals. However, because the injury would affect the performance, he finally chose to withdraw from the competition.
So far, the South Korean side has lost two contestants.
In the end, it was time for two high-profile South Korean athletes, Hwang Dae-hyun and Lee Jun-sui. Both of them had good results in the past, but in this competition, they invariably fouled. In the end, they did not qualify for the final.
So, in the back, there are no Korean athletes on the field, and South Korea did not say that they won the gold medal in that game, and they could not even win the silver medal.
Under such circumstances, south Korean coaches left the field early, and many Korean media even left before the final began, which shows that the South Korean side is very dissatisfied with the situation that the athletes were found to have fouled.
And before that, South Korean athletes had not performed well in team competitions. Some athletes fell and fouled, which eventually led to the elimination of all the Korean contestants.
In that race, the Chinese short track speed skating team won the first gold. In particular, the two coaches of the Chinese team are Koreans. Therefore, after the South Korean media won the first gold in China, they did not make less fuss about this matter.
South Korean media believe that the gold medal won by China was won by the South Koreans for the Chinese side after all. There was a sour smell between the words.
Therefore, the team game lost, coupled with the situation of the single-player competition, the Korean side could not help but feel a little uncomfortable. However, many South Korean media and politicians have taken the opportunity to hype China's "small moves" at the Olympic Games.
South Korea's people have also been biased by these bad media, believing that their failure was caused by the Chinese side. The Two Chinese coaches were also scolded as "traitors."
On the 8th, the South Korean team also held a press conference, at which they told the South Korean media that the South Korean side was ready to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
On the 9th, the president of the International Skating Union, Jan Dikma, made a video call with the South Korean delegation. During the call between the two sides, the South Korean team also showed them their different views on the outcome of the game.
However, Jan Dikma responded to the South Korean team. He said the International Skating Federation had reviewed the incident with a number of referees on the field, who had concluded that the outcome of the match was fair and just. Therefore, the appeal request made by the Korean side was rejected, and the result of the match was also upheld.
However, the matter is not over. Even with the official response of the International Skating Union, some media on the South Korean side are still hyping up the topic and directly elevating the result of the match to the "deterioration problem" of Sino-South Korean relations.
Seeing that the SOUTH Korean media still want to stir up Sino-ROK relations, the spokesperson of our embassy in the ROK issued a statement of nearly 1,000 words, hoping that the ROK side would face up to the results of the competition, maintain friendly relations between China and the ROK, and believe that the Chinese side upholds the principle of openness and fairness in the course of the competition.
An international competition should be won by their own ability, rather than taking these "side doors". Some South Korean media and politicians who try to smear China and question our results will not be on the table.