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The Olympic Spirit

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:45 pm
by El Rhino
http://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/2008/0 ... an_attack/


Cuban Tae Kwon Do dude goes down, takes longer than the minute athletes are allotted for medical attention, gets disqualified by the judge, gets pissed off and kicks the judge in the face.


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Re: The Olympic Spirit

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:51 pm
by El Rhino
Here's the video en francais

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-lI8wjkuh8

Re: The Olympic Spirit

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:11 pm
by KY Jelly Belly
YouTube took the video off cuz NBC is crazy about there shit getting put on youtube. Sucks to, that looks hilarious

Re: The Olympic Spirit

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:33 pm
by Crumpty Williams

Re: The Olympic Spirit

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:01 pm
by Tampa Josh
This guy is gonna disappear, or get put on a raft to Miami...

Re: The Olympic Spirit

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:47 pm
by Hank Fist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Uw5SnQWqQ

Olympic Tae Kwan Do is for pussies. I hate that fucking tap tap tapping they do with their feet to get points. As you can see, the round house to the judges head really isn't all that effective.

Re: The Olympic Spirit

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:50 pm
by Hank Fist
BEIJING (AP) -- A Cuban taekwondo athlete and his coach were banned for life after Angel Matos kicked the referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification.

Cuban coach Leudis Gonzalez offered no apology for Matos' actions during the men's over-80 kg (176 pounds) match.

Matos was winning 3-2, with 1:02 in the second round, when he fell to the mat after being hit by his opponent, Kazakhstan's Arman Chilmanov. He was sitting there, awaiting medical attention, when he was disqualified for taking too much injury time. Fighters get one minute, and Matos was disqualified when his time ran out.

Matos angrily questioned the call, pushed a judge, then pushed and kicked referee Chakir Chelbat of Sweden. Matos then spat on the floor and was escorted out.

"He was too strict," Gonzalez said, referring to the decision to disqualify Matos. Afterward, he charged the match was fixed, accusing the Kazakhs of offering him money.

"This is a strong violation of the spirit of taekwondo and the Olympic Games. The sanctions are the following and are effective immediately: Lifetime ban of the coach and athlete in all championships sanctioned by the (World Taekwondo Federation) and at the same time, all records of this athlete at the Beijing Games will immediately be erased," said the announcer, reading a WTF release.

In his first match, Matos defeated Italy's Leonardo Basile, then beat China's Liu Xiaobo 2-1 in the quarterfinals. But he lost to South Korean Cha Dong-min in the semis to land in the bronze-medal match.

"To me it was obvious he was unable to continue," Chilmanov said. "His toe on his left foot was broken."

Matos won the gold medal in this division at the 2000 Sydney Games, dedicating the victory to his mother, who died on the day of the opening ceremony. At the 2004 Athens Games, he finished 11th