This is for the best.

We still don’t know what the violation was. The clock froze. And the Koreans needed to put forth financial compensation for anybody to care about what they thought. All of this was occurring while a visibly distraught Shin sat on the piste waiting for an answer.

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Shin a Lam: Fencing Controversy Exposes Embarrassing Olympic Flaws | Bleacher Report (via robot-heart-politics)

This is such a horrible story. And it’s not the only judging controversy to come out of the Olympics in the last few days (that was NOT a handstand, that canoeist DID get his head through the gate…and so on). I really hope they can get it together. Nothing mars competition by bad officiating.

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