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South Korea Indignant About Olympic Judgement
Friday, February 22, 2002
(17:48)
By Sergey Stefanov
Pravda.RU
Translated by Dmitry Sudakov

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“We believe that the number of occasions of the biased judgement allows to come to the only one conclusion: the organizers of the Olympics declared the real war to our athletes.”

The National Olympic Committee of South Korea released an official statement about the demarche. The Koreans are going to boycott the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics that is to take place on February 24. This decision was made because of the fact that the Olympic judges disqualified the South Korean speedskater Kim Dong-Sung, who had won the 1.5 kilometer race, according to all rules. The gold medal was re-awarded to an American athlete -- yes, of course.

The representatives of South Korea did not hide their emotions. As RTR television channel informed, they said it was “uncovered plundering and a slap in the face of the national sport.”

The director of the South Korean delegation claimed that the Koreans were seriously considering a possibility to withdraw all of their athletes from the competitions and bid farewell to America.
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