According to gold medal winner An Se-young, the treatment of single female badminton players has also been cruel and unusual in the ROK.
The 22 year old pointed to the national team staff’s poor management of her knee injury, which she had sustained during the Asian Games in October last year.
She said the team didn’t take her injury as seriously as it should have, with an early misdiagnosis forcing her to play through pain for weeks
In a phone conversation with Yonhap News Agency Monday evening, An explained that problems with the national team program run deeper.
She said she had been disenchanted with the national team system since she first made the squad in 2018.
“My anger has been the fuel that has helped me realize my dream,” An said. “I wanted to have my voice heard. In a way, that has been my dream.”
“It is not an environment conducive to asking questions,” she continued. “I never had a chance to ask anything once the tournaments were over. There wasn’t even a meeting.”
An then added, “I hope people at the association and the national Olympic committee will take responsibility for these problems, instead of avoiding them.” (Yonhap)
I love the subtle politics of the tweet:
DPRK (North Korea specifically) won the silver, but Korea (the entire peninsula) won the bronze.
I keed, I keed. I’m sure politics had nothing to do with it.
And yes, let’s hope the DPRK doesn’t crack down on its representatives for taking a group selfie.
According to gold medal winner An Se-young, the treatment of single female badminton players has also been cruel and unusual in the ROK.
The 22 year old pointed to the national team staff’s poor management of her knee injury, which she had sustained during the Asian Games in October last year.
She said the team didn’t take her injury as seriously as it should have, with an early misdiagnosis forcing her to play through pain for weeks
In a phone conversation with Yonhap News Agency Monday evening, An explained that problems with the national team program run deeper.
She said she had been disenchanted with the national team system since she first made the squad in 2018.
“My anger has been the fuel that has helped me realize my dream,” An said. “I wanted to have my voice heard. In a way, that has been my dream.”
“It is not an environment conducive to asking questions,” she continued. “I never had a chance to ask anything once the tournaments were over. There wasn’t even a meeting.”
An then added, “I hope people at the association and the national Olympic committee will take responsibility for these problems, instead of avoiding them.” (Yonhap)
Plus ça change …