South Korea to escalate complaints over controversial speed-skating calls at Olympics

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Korea Skating Union said there were requests from sport officials and citizens to pull out of the Olympics altogether and bring the athletes home.

The Korean Sport and Olympic Committee plans to escalate complaints over the decision that disqualified two of its speed skaters in the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The Korean Sport and Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday that it plans to issue a protest with the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the International Olympic Committee over the disqualification of two of its speed skaters in the men’s 1,000-metre semi-final at the 2022 Games. "We will explore all available ways and means to ensure that such an unfair judgement will not be made again," said Yoon Hong-geun, president of the Korea Skating Union,. “We've been receiving requests from sport officials and ordinary citizens to pull out of the Olympics altogether and bring the athletes home, but we are not at that stage yet.”

This is not the first time that China has benefited from penalties and disqualifications handed out to its competition in speed skating events in Beijing.in the men’s 1,000-metre final on Monday when a collision with Liu Shaolin Sandor of Hungary resulted in a penalty assessed to the Hungarian, who actually crossed the finish line just ahead of his opponent.

 

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