Chinese skater accused of deliberately tripping Canadian opponent in Winter Olympics chaos Chinese athlete Fan Kexin has been accused of making Alyson Charles fall whilst taking part in the short-track speed skating event at the Beijing Winter Olympics https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/winter-olympics-chinese-canada-skater-26169979
These Olympics are quickly becoming a fiasco as China works to disqualify top contenders in multiple sports. Five women were disqualified from the Olympic ski jump event because their clothes were too baggy https://www.insider.com/women-ski-jumpers-disqualified-olympics-for-baggy-clothes-2022-2 Five women ski jumpers were disqualified from the Olympic mixed team event for loose clothing. Baggier clothing could give jumpers extra loft in the air. Skiers and coaches were outraged, saying they practiced in the same suits all week without issue. Controversy struck the women's mixed team jump event at the Beijing Olympics when officials disqualified five skiers for wearing baggy clothing. The skiers from Austria, Germany, Norway, and Japan were said to be wearing loose-fitting clothes that could have given them extra loft in the air, according to Yahoo's Jay Busbee. However, skiers and coaches argued that the disqualifications made little sense, as the teams used the suits during practice without issue. "It is just strange that they have been using the same suits yesterday and there was no problem," German coach Stefan Horngacher said, according to Busbee. "It is annoying that this happens at the Winter Olympic Games. This should all be cleared before." Norwegian ski jumping chief of sports Clas Brede Braathen apologized on behalf of the sport, saying: "This is something we should have cleaned up in before the Olympics. The sport of ski jumping has experienced one of its darker days today." Several of the skiers were outraged by the disqualification. "The [International Ski Federation] destroyed everything with this operation. I think they have destroyed women's ski jumping," said Katharina Althaus, via news.com.au. "I have been checked so many times in 11 years of ski jumping, and I have never been disqualified once. I know my suit was compliant." Althaus, a silver medalist in 2018, later wrote on Instagram: "160 World Cup starts, 5x World Championships, 3x Olympic Games and I got DSQ for the first time. My heart is broken." Anna Odine Strøm of Norway said the measurement method was different than usual and blamed her loose-fitting clothing on being in quarantine. "It was a bit strange and didn't conform to how it's been done in the past," Strøm said via the BBC. "It is a bit the result of me being in quarantine and not eating properly the whole week." Women's ski jumping is relatively new to the Olympics, beginning in 2014. The mixed team event is new to the Beijing games. Slovenia went on to win the event in dominant fashion. Russia took silver, and Canada took bronze. The winners were only slightly sympathetic to the disqualifications.
South Koreans Outraged At The Chinese Short-Track Speed Skating Team Over Alleged “Cheating” And “Biased Judging” For Gold Medal China’s gold medal in short-track speed skating has been met with extreme criticism from the South Korean general audience. https://www.koreaboo.com/news/south...g-alleged-cheating-biased-judging-gold-medal/
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