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Alias · Joined: 24 Jan 2003

Ahn Hyun-Soo of South Korea won gold, Lee Ho-Suk second won silver.

I imagine there will be much gloating in Kimchie land today.

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

The fall of Hwang will be forgotten in an instant. Korea is glorious once again!

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

He fell? Good. I think he cheated his way to a gold last time and got his just rewards today.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Short Track would be the perfect setting for a reality tv show... or a soap opera.

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

apollo messed up big time!! even the commentators couldnt believe what he was doing!he is sitting comfortably in second place a secured place in the final and he tries to trip the front skater or thats what it looked like, but then he tries to skate hard out and take first place to get into poll!
so what happens he slips and comes last!! WHAT AN IDIOT!!!!!
deserves what he got!! he had a set place in the final but blew it!!!
so now he gets nothing..
except more bad press on cheating again..

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Bah, it's a marginal sport and a waste of a ice time that could be better spent on hockey.

Xerxes · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:58 am Post subject:

Last winter Olympics, Koreans hacked his personal web site and wrote "Fvck You" ad nauseum all over the place, and he got a bunch of hate mail and phone threats. He feeded that fire by making inflamatory comments in the press too. His ego probably couldn't allow his K-pals to get the better of him, even in the gold to silver medal difference.

Just goes to show that an athlete just needs to focus on his/her own game. Too bad for Ohno, but he seemed really the vindictive type too.

I actually didn't watch it last night though. Does anyone have a link to somewhere that does have it, even snippets of it, on the net? (I imagine Korean TV will have it replayed over and over though--just don't have the patience to "wade and row" through the local tv listings)

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

As much as I try to approve of Korea, the whole Ohno thing just went to show how much of a joke this country can be.

So close to being respectable, than they have moments like that.

HapKi · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

mithridates · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:42 am Post subject:

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Wishmaster · Joined: 06 Feb 2003

Excuse me, I've got to vent. There are many things about Korea that are absolutely illogical and plain stupid...but the Ohno incident of 2002 was ridiculous. These people have held this grudge and treated this guy like the Antichrist. When he came to Korea a little while back and tried to make amends, the Koreans continued to rip on him. My students just became damn near incendiary whenever his name was mentioned.

So, now that Korea has its pitiful gold medal, I won't give kudos to them. They are poor winners. They pissed and moaned for 4 years about a supposed injustice(hey, blame the judge not Anton). And now they are gloating. Well, guess what, you didn't defeat Ohno. You may have won the gold but the luster isn't there without the Ohno thing directly involved. He probably would have won the medal again and that would have really pissed off the K-people. Yeah, I'm sure that they would have been burning American flags and posting rap on his website.

Oh, and I don't know what stations some of you are watching but whenever they mention Ohno, the announcers are smiling like a couple of hyenas. They care more about Ohno than the gold medal....

Wishmaster · Joined: 06 Feb 2003

Excuse me, I've got to vent. There are many things about Korea that are absolutely illogical and plain stupid...but the Ohno incident of 2002 was ridiculous. These people have held this grudge and treated this guy like the Antichrist. When he came to Korea a little while back and tried to make amends, the Koreans continued to rip on him. My students just became damn near incendiary whenever his name was mentioned.

So, now that Korea has its pitiful gold medal, I won't give kudos to them. They are poor winners. They pissed and moaned for 4 years about a supposed injustice(hey, blame the judge not Anton). And now they are gloating. Well, guess what, you didn't defeat Ohno. You may have won the gold but the luster isn't there without the Ohno thing directly involved. He probably would have won the medal again and that would have really pissed off the K-people. Yeah, I'm sure that they would have been burning American flags and posting crap on his website.

Oh, and I don't know what stations some of you are watching but whenever they mention Ohno, the announcers are smiling like a couple of hyenas. They care more about Ohno than the gold medal....

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:58 am Post subject:

and we're now getting replay after replay after replay....

it seems to have bumped all other olympic sports coverage off of the sports networks here

speedskating and more speedskating and more speedskating....