South Korean Fencer Shin A Lam Offered a "Special Medal," Tells Olympic Committee to Shove It
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Fencing's governing body has announced that the heartbroken South Korean Shin A Lam will receive "a special medal" after she felt she was robbed of a proper one in the women's épée on Monday night.
The medal will be for "aspiration to win and respect for the rules," according to the International Fencing Federation, but Shin said: "It does not make me feel better because it's not an Olympic medal. I don't accept the result because I believe it was a mistake."
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ETA: Shin A Lam Screwed Out of a Medal because of a 15 year old Olympic volunteer?
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What a load of crap.
Fencing's governing body has announced that the heartbroken South Korean Shin A Lam will receive "a special medal" after she felt she was robbed of a proper one in the women's épée on Monday night.
The medal will be for "aspiration to win and respect for the rules," according to the International Fencing Federation, but Shin said: "It does not make me feel better because it's not an Olympic medal. I don't accept the result because I believe it was a mistake."
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ETA: Shin A Lam Screwed Out of a Medal because of a 15 year old Olympic volunteer?
The Korean team believes the situation resulted from poor management by the referee and timekeeper. Kim Chang-gon, an FIE referee, said, “I checked after the game that it was a 15-year-old British volunteer girl who was doing the timekeeping.”
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What a load of crap.
You go, girl. And maybe next time they won't give a child such an important job. Ugh.
Seriously.
Also, why wasn't anyone supervising the 15 year old volunteer?
I really hope her name doesn't get out; she's just a kid.
epic fail.
fuck this white privilege shit.
I really admire her for how she's stood her ground and stayed strong. This is really ridiculous that this has happened.