Chinese ski rising star Su Yiming won the silver medal in the men's snowboard steeplechase at the Beijing Winter Olympics, but afterwards the chief referee admitted that he deducted the final gold medalist, Canadian athlete Max Parrot, or missed the championship.
The Beijing Winter Olympics Men's Snowboard Steeplechase Has ended earlier, and 17-year-old Chinese ski rising star Su Yiming won the silver medal with 88.7 points, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win a medal in snowboarding. Canada's Max Parrot won the gold with 90.96 points with a 1440-degree "backflip 4 twist".
However, because Su Yiming twice completed the 1800-degree movement of the two turns in the game, he was the only player in the whole field to complete the 5-turn body, but in the end he missed the gold medal, which caused a hot discussion on the Internet; afterwards, some people found that Bolot had a mistake in completing the action and should not score a high score.
In this regard, the final referee Iztok Sumatic was interviewed recently to explain the incident, he admitted that the referee was blind and made mistakes in scoring. "First, in the only picture and angle we got, Belot performed perfectly; second, it was live broadcasting, and we had to make a decision in a short period of time."
Iztok Sumatic said that if the referee had any questions about any action, he could indeed ask to see the slow motion, but because the 10-person jury was all deceived by the camera, it did not exercise this right in the end. "At the time, even the other coaches thought that Berlot was not wrong, we could only rate based on what we saw, and everyone was confident at that moment (the rating was correct)."
He revealed that by the time he found out there was a problem, it was too late, "and everyone said: 'Oops, this is an angle we've never seen before.' "But the scores have been submitted, they are being processed, and the match is a 'instant rating' mechanism, and we can't change it when we make a decision."
Some foreign commentators said that according to the regulations, Belot's mistakes should be deducted 3 points, which means that if the referee scored correctly at that time, Su Yiming should overpower the other party to win gold. Iztok Sumatic agrees that when everything is right, the score becomes different, "but it still depends on many factors." ”
It is not known whether the Chinese delegation will appeal the results next, but Su Yiming coach Yasuhiro Sato issued a statement saying that he and Su Yiming understand the difficulty of instant scoring and implore the public to stop criticizing.
'To be honest I'm sorry, but I quickly thought that this was also part of the race process, so I showed respect for the result.'
"I also think this result may be the motivation for Su Yiming to train harder in the future." Most importantly, our goal is that Su Yiming is to give su Yiming all his strength and show the best of himself, and we have done it, so we feel very satisfied. ”
