Damn, Look what they did to this 16 year at the Olympics.

[kurt]

With time running out in one of the two semifinal matches for the women's individual epee competition, South Korea's Shin A Lam led Germany's Britta Heidermann by a single point. Officially, Heidermann had just one second to launch an attack and score a touch, which would advance her on to the gold medal match to face the Ukraine's Yana Shemyakina, a lack of time which all but ensured that Shin would advance.

Instead, the timing mechanism on the piste became stuck, giving Heidermann extra time to complete her attack and win the bout, which earned her the spot in the gold medal bout. Officials, unsure what to do without a true, official protocol to follow, eventually decided to award the victory to Heidermann.

Fencing controversy forces Korean to sit on piste for ages, eventually costs her medal | Fourth-Place Medal - Yahoo! Sports

 

[Jesus]

cacs

 

[DeVanteSwing]

it's 2012, why is this timing mechanism stuck?

 

[jfkennedy]

If I'm reading that correctly, wouldn't common sense say that the Korean chick won? I don't get how they can rule against her if the other girl's attack took longer than 1 second. That seems super shady.

 

[sm0ke]

If I'm reading that correctly, wouldn't common sense say that the Korean chick won?

you would think...

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

There's been a lot of controversy already.

The men's team gymnastics finals was some fukkery. They told the Ukrainian team that they won Bronze, had them celebrating and crying, then a few minutes later took it back

 

[intruder]

There's been a lot of controversy already.

The men's team gymnastics finals was some fukkery. They told the Ukrainian team that they won Bronze, had them celebrating and crying, then a few minutes later took it back

Ive seen enough Olympics games t know that THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONTROVERSY.

Humans from all corners of the world getting together to compete for a single prize will not go smoothly.

But as far as the thread goes yeah the Korean girl got fukked.

Now watch how they will try to fukk the chinese girl from the swimming team.

 

[Capitol]

I want a full blown report on this. It seems like it would be obvious, but it took 30 minutes for this? The gymnastics thing, yea I saw that, thats more logical there, but not this

 

[Olu Dara]

fukk the olympics

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

At the end of the day, they'll reward the South Korean a gold medal. They'll both have gold medals, which will be pointless.

 

[Olu Dara]

At the end of the day, they'll reward the South Korean a gold medal. They'll both have gold medals, which will be pointless.

They won't do this trust me breh

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

They won't do this trust me breh

If there's enough outrage, they will.

But then again, they still haven't given Roy Jones Jr. his gold medal

 

[superunknown23]

I remember when they stripped some girl of her gold medal in 2004 because she took Nurofen for her headaches (Ibuprofen's european equivalent).

 

[Lakerman0834]