I would be upset to if players that worked hard to make the team get left out of competing to make way for people that did not earn a spot and are only there due to nuclear extortion:
South Korea women’s hockey head coach Sarah Murray speaks to reporters at Incheon International Airport on Jan. 16, 2018. (Yonhap)
South Korea women’s hockey head coach Sarah Murray said Tuesday her players will suffer “damage” if North Korean players are added to the team for next month’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
Murray made the remarks after returning home from the team’s U.S. training camp in the wake of the South Korean government’s proposal to form a single Korean team at the Olympics. (….)
“I think there is damage to our players,” Murray told reporters at Incheon International Airport. “It’s hard because the players have earned their spots and they think they deserve to go to the Olympics. Then you have people being added later. It definitely affects our players.” [Yonhap]
Here is the solution the ROK government is trying to come up with which is very Korean, please understand our special situation:
South Korean officials have said they’re seeking to keep the South Korean roster of 23 and add extra North Korean players and that they’ve asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) for cooperation. According to these officials, the IOC and the IIHF are also seeking understanding from other participating nations because a roster expansion granted to only one team would create an uneven playing field.
Murray said she felt other countries may understand the situation and see it as a “political statement.”
Even adding players to the full roster is damaging. The NK players will get ice time, reducing that of the real players, and will harm team play. The athletes have trained very hard for this moment, and now their performance will be degraded by new, unfamiliar teammates.
Likewise, the skiers who are being shipped off to promote a North Korean ski resort ahead of the Olympics certainly have (had) a training schedule designed to have them peak at Olympics time. But that will all be out the window, as they are told to cavort for the cameras on Kim’s
mountaintop.
North Korea is on schedule, meanwhile, to dominate media coverage of the games. What a shame.
Moon claims to support rules and fairness. Yet, now his government put forward a proposal that is deeply unfair to its athletes and which breaks the olympic team limit rules that are necessary for fair play. The want to be unfair tobthe south korean athletes and their competitors.
blueberry muffin mix
6 years ago
Again, Moon doesn’t care about South Koreans outside his own skin…
J6Junkie
6 years ago
The NORKs are the surprise winner of these games. Never seen a host nation cowed so badly.
Flyingsword
6 years ago
Olympics now called the Pyongyang Games. Wonder how nork players will react when they find out the coach is an American; probably demand she be fired.
Smokes
6 years ago
Interesting, traditionally which province in South Korea did the Murray family come from? 🙄
Mcgeehee
6 years ago
These Winter Olympics are unravelling before our very eyes. Something’s going to happen. Too many changes, too late in the schedule, always = bad news: 400 performers, some glitch, some misunderstanding, interpreted as an insult, girl goes missing, a defection (or 20), accusations of kidnapping, a simultaneous breech at the JSA. What’s it going to be?
Even adding players to the full roster is damaging. The NK players will get ice time, reducing that of the real players, and will harm team play. The athletes have trained very hard for this moment, and now their performance will be degraded by new, unfamiliar teammates.
Likewise, the skiers who are being shipped off to promote a North Korean ski resort ahead of the Olympics certainly have (had) a training schedule designed to have them peak at Olympics time. But that will all be out the window, as they are told to cavort for the cameras on Kim’s
mountaintop.
North Korea is on schedule, meanwhile, to dominate media coverage of the games. What a shame.
Hmmm…
…look at that…
…no movement at all on my Givafückometer.
Moon claims to support rules and fairness. Yet, now his government put forward a proposal that is deeply unfair to its athletes and which breaks the olympic team limit rules that are necessary for fair play. The want to be unfair tobthe south korean athletes and their competitors.
Again, Moon doesn’t care about South Koreans outside his own skin…
The NORKs are the surprise winner of these games. Never seen a host nation cowed so badly.
Olympics now called the Pyongyang Games. Wonder how nork players will react when they find out the coach is an American; probably demand she be fired.
Interesting, traditionally which province in South Korea did the Murray family come from? 🙄
These Winter Olympics are unravelling before our very eyes. Something’s going to happen. Too many changes, too late in the schedule, always = bad news: 400 performers, some glitch, some misunderstanding, interpreted as an insult, girl goes missing, a defection (or 20), accusations of kidnapping, a simultaneous breech at the JSA. What’s it going to be?
Smokes, you are behind the times.
The Olympics is no longer about which nationality makes the best athletes. It is about which nationality fields the best athletes.
It is no longer a physical sport… it is an administrative sport.
…and that is correct… as mankind transitions to an information society.
CH, your snark looks more like bovine scat. Sadly, the influx of so much leftist and SJW interruption into our lives has all but destroyed satire.