Considerate talk丨Spraying South Sudan's "waist son" is conniving at the "real murderer", and if the national strength is not good, the competition should not be held

We have been following the news that Serbian player Simanić lost one kidney at the basketball World Cup after being elbowed by a South Sudanese player. Originally, we hoped that the direction of things could move in the direction of restoring the truth and clear responsibility, but unfortunately, we have only seen online abuse of South Sudanese players by public opinion judgment on the Internet. In this case, the poor medical logistics of the host Philippines was brushed off. They are the real cause of this sensational tragedy.

Written by | Yu Ruiyin

Editor丨 Feng Xiao

The first 1/4 final of this men's basketball World Cup will start this afternoon Beijing time, and the Serbian team, which played in a mourning posture, will challenge the Lithuanian team, which has not tasted a defeat since the start of the tournament. The reason for the mourning is that their brother - the 25-year-old interior lineman Borissa Simanić - suffered a rare and bizarre injury during the game.

It happened in the match between the Chinese men's basketball team, Serbia, against South Sudan. Minutes after the game, Simanić was in the defense under the basket when he was elbowed by Nuni Omott, who was trying to break through for a layup, and hit the left side of his abdomen. Simanić, who was in unbearable pain, was immediately replaced for treatment, but looking at the scene at that time, he thought it was a "hard injury"; Coupled with the fact that we were immersed in the defeat of the Chinese team, this matter did not attract much attention at the beginning. Until a jaw-dropping bad news came-

Simanich was treated at a local hospital in Manila and had 2 surgeries in just a few days before having a kidney removed! Friends with basic medical knowledge can easily see that the position of Simanich's elbow blow is close to the human spleen, and the rupture of the spleen in the fierce competitive confrontation is not an isolated case, if such a result is painful but reasonable. But how can it hurt the kidneys, even to the point of being removed?

Caption: It's this elbow, who thought it was so lethal?

According to Serbian team officials and team doctor Professor Dragan Radovanovic, Simanić underwent his first operation on the day of the match (August 30 to the early hours of the next morning) and found that he was bleeding so badly that the hospital could not find a suitable blood type nearby, but it was not yet at the point of removal. However, during postoperative monitoring, doctors found new complications in Simanich, and the vitality of his kidney tissue was significantly affected, and it was decided to perform a second operation on September 3, which finally removed one of his kidneys.

Even if there is very little detailed information available from the official and various media at the moment, it is absurd enough to listen to this matter. On the other side of the incident, Omott, who wielded the "black elbow", was judged by the whole network, and many words even went beyond the criticism of the matter. The overwhelming public opinion storm focused on Omot's race and color. For this reason, the South Sudan Basketball Federation has to issue an official statement condemning all racist statements and actions. Objectively speaking, Omott's action is indeed a foul, and this kind of action is also the most criticized and rejected in the sports arena, but does its "evil" degree really need to rise to such a serious level?

On the basketball court, black elbow incidents are not uncommon. Although not a good move, there is no denying that such small moves will always be part of the game. Perhaps the most well-known is NBA Jazz legend Carl Malone, who once elbowed Pistons legend Isaiah Thomas to the hospital for 40 stitches. And in the 2012 playoffs, Artest hit Harden with an elbow and fell to the ground is also a famous event in NBA history. These events, the players on the field moved, vicious feet, far more than today's Omot moves. But the criticism of Malone and Artest is limited to the basketball level, and the judgment of sportsmanship and morality is carried out. This is 108,000 miles away from racist rhetoric.

Artest elbows Harden.

Is there a direct connection between Omott's elbow blow and Simanich's kidney removal, and should he bear legal, moral, and financial responsibility? After collecting and fixing evidence, the Serbian team can file arbitration with the World Cup and FIBA officials, apply for professional third-party medical investigation team intervention, and even go through reliable international litigation procedures, although the process is long but at least there can be a public opinion. But the atmosphere of "public opinion adjudication" is absolutely undesirable, and when the whole network throws a heavy fist at Omott, it allows the party who should really be directly responsible to escape.

That's right, as one of the three hosts of this World Cup, the Philippines, their basketball association, organizing committee, venue staff, and hospital-attending doctors have responsibilities that cannot be escaped throughout the process.

The reason why this is strange is because blood transfusion is one of the most basic medical insurance for major events.

For example, we often see the names and blood types of the driver and the navigator on the windows of the car off-road and rally events (for example: O+, Rh-positive type O blood), in order to buy all the time to find a suitable matching blood source in an emergency situation where the injury requires a blood transfusion. But when it comes to Simmanich, I believe that the team doctor can clearly and clearly inform the hospital of his blood type, but the situation deteriorates because there is no blood source, which sounds incomprehensible.

Caption: For example, from the window of Han Han's racing car, you can see that his blood type is O+.

No reports have been found on which hospital Simanich was taken to. The matches in the Chinese team were all played at the Araneta Stadium, so the one in which Simanić was injured was no exception. Located in Quezon City, Araneta Stadium is a "satellite city", but it is only 8 kilometers away from downtown Manila, and the location, scale and hardware of the venues hosting the World Cup in the Philippines are better. Like the MOA Mall of Asia stadium (where the Chinese team lost the Asian Championship 10 years ago), it is a stadium built in a bustling business district, so it is even more difficult to imagine that there is not enough medical emergency equipment around.

Open any map app and search for hospitals around the Araneta Stadium and you'll find the nearest option less than 300 meters away, while there are more than 15 hospitals within 1.5 kilometers. Moreover, the match between Serbia and South Sudan was played at 4 p.m., and it was about 6 p.m. when he was injured (Manila is also located in the East 8th District, which is not jet lagging with us), at this time, even if the hospital where the doctor is treated does not have a blood source, is it not available among so many other options around? Unbelievable.

Caption: A casual search, so many hospitals near the venue, none of them have a suitable blood source?

What is even more ridiculous is the indifference of the local media in the Philippines to this matter. The sports pages of the official websites of major media such as the Manila Times and the Manila Gazette are mostly hung with news about the Philippine team itself, such as the Clarkson outbreak and the resignation of the head coach, and there is no relevant report by typing Simmanic's English surname. The Philippine Star published a report on the evening of the 4th, but most of the descriptions and quotations in the article came from second-hand channels (the reporter even wrote "translated from" such and such a source very honestly). That is to say, as a host, he witnessed such a harrowing incident on his own turf, and there was no local reporter to follow up and disclose it.

This inevitably makes people wonder, although Manila is also one of the nominal Asian metropolises, why is the organization and support ability of the competition reflected in this detail so crotch-pulling? Although Manila hosted the Southeast Asian Games in 2019, it is still new to the holding of continental and international competitions in the true sense. The only time the Asian Games were held dates back nearly 70 years to 1954. After that, Manila also competed with Los Angeles in the United States and Montreal in Canada for the right to host the 1976 Summer Olympics, but eventually lost. Since then, there has been no voice for hosting a large-scale multi-sport event.

 Caption: The sports section of the Manila Times, which has a large circulation, has no coverage of the matter.

This time, the Men's Basketball World Cup was jointly hosted by Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia, and Manila was the "main venue" for the final champion. It was supposed to be a great opportunity to justify his name as a "regional sports powerhouse", but he was screwed up by himself. In hindsight, if Serbia had drawn the group playing in Japan, it might have escaped. Although our opposition to the discharge of nuclear wastewater into the sea is clear, it is undeniable that Japan is more than a star and a half better than the other two hosts in terms of large-scale event protection and medical resource scheduling.

In fact, such a chaotic and absurd event occurred in Manila, which is both accidental and inevitable, and our compatriots themselves have their own pain. On August 23, 2010, the Philippine police killed and injured 8 tourists in Hong Kong, China, during a hostage rescue operation in downtown Manila. According to the recollections of domestic media colleagues who went to the scene of the incident at the time, the bureaucratic and rigid implementation of the actions of multiple parties such as the military, police and local security was also another cause of the tragedy. To this day, it is still painful.

As with the misfortune experienced by Simanić this time, the 1% probability of happening to a specific individual is 100% unfortunate. In the end, I still wish this Serbian guy a speedy recovery and a good future life path.