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caniff
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 Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:01 am Post subject: |
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| diver wrote: |
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Here's the short form:
The Korean coach of the US team ordered a Korean-born member of the US team to sabotage the Canadian's skates. The Korean-born US team member obliged his coach.
The US was not in the final vs. Canada. South Korea was. South Korea won.
The Skate Canada official says, with a straight face I would assume, that he doesn't know why the US wold sabotage Canada when they were not even competing in the event. Really? I think *I* might have an idea why they did it... |
What exactly are you trying to insinuate? |
That i have no idea why the US would do this?  |
As if the US needed any more bad press, and now this. These are indeed dark times. |
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OBwannabe
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
| diver wrote: |
| caniff wrote: |
| diver wrote: |
Here's the short form:
The Korean coach of the US team ordered a Korean-born member of the US team to sabotage the Canadian's skates. The Korean-born US team member obliged his coach.
The US was not in the final vs. Canada. South Korea was. South Korea won.
The Skate Canada official says, with a straight face I would assume, that he doesn't know why the US wold sabotage Canada when they were not even competing in the event. Really? I think *I* might have an idea why they did it... |
Even though both
What exactly are you trying to insinuate? |
That i have no idea why the US would do this? |
I guess there are some things we'll never know. |
Both the coach and athlete are American citizens. So technically is was the US that tampered with the Canadian's skates. But as to why....isn't it obvious? Their heart/devotion is to their home country, Korea. Oh wait, did I just say that? Too politically incorrect. Sorry. |
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caniff
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:26 am Post subject: |
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| I used to have a heartless friend (I guess I still do but I haven't talked to him in eons) who would refer to the severely hunched-over Korean halmoni as "skaters". |
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radcon
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| In this years olympics the gold medal match in womens archery was between a Korean and a Mexican. The Mexican woman had a korean guy as her coach. After the final shot the Korean won the gold medal and the Korean coach of the Mexican woman ran over to the Korean archer in pure jubilation, jumping up and down, yelling, congratulatory as if he was her coach. Disgusting display. |
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caniff
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| In this years olympics the gold medal match in womens archery was between a Korean and a Mexican. The Mexican woman had a korean guy as her coach. After the final shot the Korean won the gold medal and the Korean coach of the Mexican woman ran over to the Korean archer in pure jubilation, jumping up and down, yelling, congratulatory as if he was her coach. Disgusting display. |
Some - and I'm saying some- Koreans are so f'in clueless and weird it's incredible, and therein lies the source of the stereotypes.
In the interest of showing how fair and balanced I am I could get started on my fellow Americans, but the internet doesn't have enough bandwidth or whatever. |
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12ax7
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flakfizer
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Yup. Just saw that today. From Yahoo! news:
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American speedskater Simon Cho has been suspended and will likely face a lengthy ban from competition for taking part in an incredible sabotage plot that saw the Olympic bronze medalist deliberately tamper with a rival's skate to gain a competitive edge.
U.S. Speedskating has decided to issue Cho a ban, despite his vehement assertions that his actions came as a result of orders from the U.S. team coach, South Korean Jae Su Chun.
Cho says that he twice refused Chun's demand that he interfere with the Canadian equipment. According to Cho, Chun ordered him to commit the act in their native Korean language and later repeated it in English, in the presence of teammate Jeff Simon.
"When he spoke in Korean, I knew he was serious," Cho said Friday at a press conference, according to the Associated Press. "The repetitiveness and aggressiveness of how he came at me was very intimidating. � I knew he wasn't going to take no for an answer."
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