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英文版 -- Re: [正式說法] 亞洲奧委會:亞跆盟說法與影片不符/ 中央社 2010.11
Asian Olympic Committee to summon taekwondo officials over incident
2010/11/20 01:09:34
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201011200001&Type=aSPT

Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) will summon taekwondo officials Saturday to explain apparent irregularities in the disqualification of a Taiwanese athlete at the Asian Games, Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) chief Chen Kuo-yi said Friday.

Chen said Taiwan's Olympic committee had filed an appeal with the OCA and provided accompanying information related to the controversial disqualification of Taiwan's Yang Shu-chun in a women's taekwondo under 49 kilogram division bout on Wednesday.

After comparing footage of the bout with statements made by taekwondo officials at a press conference Thursday and in a website press release, OCA representatives expressed doubts about the handling of the incident, Chen said.

Yang was disqualified apparently for having extra sensors on the electronic socks used to indicate when kicks are successful, but explanations of the decision given by World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) officials and the Asian Taekwondo Union (ATU) have been inconsistent.

Among the irregularities in the handling of Yang's bout identified by the council was the involvement of an equipment manufacturer engineer, the CTOC said.

According to an ATU press release on the disqualification, in which it branded Yang's act as "a shocking act of deception, " the engineer asked the center referee to stop the bout after seeing something unusual about the way Yang was scoring and the look of her socks.

But OCA officials questioned how an engineer -- who worked for the company that manufactured Yang's socks -- would have the authority to interfere with a competition, Chen said.

Another glaring inconsistency was that according to the ATU press release, the engineer did not notice anything wrong until 45 seconds into the bout, but the video showed that Yang did not have the heel sensors on at the time.

The video shows that Yang was asked to remove the sensors during a pre-match equipment check, and Chen said the OCA representatives also wondered why taekwondo officials did not immediately disqualify Yang on the spot rather than letting her begin the bout if the offense was so serious.

The OCA will try to get answers to these and other questions at the meeting with the taekwondo officials on Saturday.

It is not yet clear what the possible outcomes of the appeals process with the OCA might be.

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作者: gustav
Date: November 20, 2010 02:02AM

Re: [正式說法] 亞洲奧委會:亞跆盟說法與影片不符/ 中央社 2010.11
Asian Olympic Committee to summon taekwondo officials over incident
2010/11/20 01:09:34
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201011200001&Type=aSPT

Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) will summon taekwondo officials Saturday to explain apparent irregularities in the disqualification of a Taiwanese athlete at the Asian Games, Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) chief Chen Kuo-yi said Friday.

Chen said Taiwan's Olympic committee had filed an appeal with the OCA and provided accompanying information related to the controversial disqualification of Taiwan's Yang Shu-chun in a women's taekwondo under 49 kilogram division bout on Wednesday.

After comparing footage of the bout with statements made by taekwondo officials at a press conference Thursday and in a website press release, OCA representatives expressed doubts about the handling of the incident, Chen said.

Yang was disqualified apparently for having extra sensors on the electronic socks used to indicate when kicks are successful, but explanations of the decision given by World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) officials and the Asian Taekwondo Union (ATU) have been inconsistent.

Among the irregularities in the handling of Yang's bout identified by the council was the involvement of an equipment manufacturer engineer, the CTOC said.

According to an ATU press release on the disqualification, in which it branded Yang's act as "a shocking act of deception, " the engineer asked the center referee to stop the bout after seeing something unusual about the way Yang was scoring and the look of her socks.

But OCA officials questioned how an engineer -- who worked for the company that manufactured Yang's socks -- would have the authority to interfere with a competition, Chen said.

Another glaring inconsistency was that according to the ATU press release, the engineer did not notice anything wrong until 45 seconds into the bout, but the video showed that Yang did not have the heel sensors on at the time.

The video shows that Yang was asked to remove the sensors during a pre-match equipment check, and Chen said the OCA representatives also wondered why taekwondo officials did not immediately disqualify Yang on the spot rather than letting her begin the bout if the offense was so serious.

The OCA will try to get answers to these and other questions at the meeting with the taekwondo officials on Saturday.

It is not yet clear what the possible outcomes of the appeals process with the OCA might be.