In the game of sports, rules matter, because without rules, I would’ve brought my samurai sword to my tennis matches and chop off my opponent’s hands. And there are two types of sports, one that has a lot of technical rules and one that’s judged based on the beauty of it. But both kinds of sport relies on one thing, the decision based on umpire/referee/judge.
When Serena lost to Capriati in this year’s US Open because of the line judge’s bad call, she showed disappointment, she showed frustration, but she obeyed the umpire’s call and submits to her defeats. I don’t particular like Serena as a tennis player because she plays more like a guy than a woman, but I admire her sportsmanship.
Vice versa, take a look at the gymnastics at this year’s olympics. South Korea’s Yang Tae-young protested against Hamm’s gold medal. I find this act ammusing. Firstly, the committee has agreed that if they re-score Hamm, then they’ll have to re-score Yang also, but in which case, Yang will also have a lower score, and still would not receive the gold mdeal. Secondly, it is in the rule book that if the athelete doesn’t not agree with the score, he will have to speak up before reciving the medal on the podium. Thirdly, sports is full of mistakes, bad calls happens, it’s all part of the game, judges are still human and errors are all part of it.
stop it you korean hater.
Now that’s pretty funny, I haven’t even listed any reason why I don’t like Koreans on that post. I can list a number of events that made me mad at them, but I choose not to do so on this site.
There was a fellow who contested the American who won the gold in one of the swimming competitions. The American was disqualified for about 20 minutes on account of a faulty turn that no one else could see before they threw out the judge’s complaint.
Well, I know that at least twice Mexican atheletes have been disqualified for some misterious mistakes made when nobody could see them except the judge since they were running and they ran under an overpass. I find it somewhat suspicious that this has supposedly happened more than once in the same type of situation… but we can never know what really happened.