Korea Disqualified Relay Speed Skating
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How upset will South Korea be about the disqualification of their women’s short track speed skating in relay?
They crossed the finish line first and thought they had won the gold. But then, they later found out they got disqualified.
This also happened in Salt Lake City 2002 where their skater was disqualified and Apolo Ohno ended up getting the gold.
Are they going to be very upset?
Of course they will be upset….it was a close pass, but the chinese skater leaned on her to make it obvious…and in doing so tripped on her own skate.
I think it could of gone either way, but if i was ref, i wouldn’t of given them a DQ…in fact, after seeing the replay it could have gone against China
***to all of you saying that it was a warranted DQ….the rule is who is ahead at the first puck (in simple terms) gets right away…Now, Korean wasn’t fully ahead, but a common strategy by the person being passed is to try and lean on the skater to either a) force the DQ or b) slow them down. In this case, China leaned on the korean and IMO, she tripped by leaning too forward and catching her two……and most people I skate with agree with this
***Nathanael: exactly!
Keyboard cat on Korean speed skating