Within the newest controversy to hit the Beijing Winter Olympics, questions are being raised about alleged foul play by a Chinese language skater throughout a race on Monday.
Chinese language skater Fan Kexin is being accused of flicking a marker positioned on the ice rink into the skates of Canadian competitor Alyson Charles in the course of the chaotic quarterfinal of the ladies’s 500-metre race.
The video from a ladies’s short-track velocity skating competitors has been seen greater than three million occasions simply hours after being posted on Reddit and led to a flurry of feedback elevating questions.
The suspect act got here halfway by way of the final lap when the Chinese language skater was trailing on the final spot within the video.
Fan, 28, then reached over the leg of one other skater and appeared to swipe the marker ahead into the skates of Charles, 23.
The Canadian skater tripped and fell on the ice rink, within the controversial conclusion to the race that left many difficult the legitimacy of the outcome.
“Recheck the video footage… it’s was the Chinese language competitor who flicks the marker into the trail of the Alyson Charles, not Florence… she doesn’t truly contact it in any means… Fan’s arm is in entrance of of Florence obstructing then hits the marker along with her hand then flicks it,” Glen Molloy, a Twitter consumer stated.
A Canadian sports activities reporter for Each day Hive, Rob Williams, requested on Twitter whether or not it was a “sabotage or incidental contact?”
“The sluggish movement replay from this morning’s brief observe velocity skating occasion appears to be like suspect,” he stated sharing his article that raised the questions over the race.
Describing it as dishonest, a Redditor stated: “Took me a number of views to see that the hand throwing the puck truly belongs to the skater on the skin, snaking an arm previous the Canadian skater on the within of the flip. Gotta say, the dishonest exhibits wonderful precision and coordination. Really Olympic stage cheat.”
Fellow Canadian skater Kim Boutin received the race to maneuver onto semi-finals along with her teammate Florence Brunelle ending second. Nonetheless, Brunelle was disqualified for tripping each Charles and Fan. The penalty meant that Italian Arianna Valcepina got here second within the race to qualify for the semis.
Charles was additionally allowed to advance as she was within the second spot earlier than tripping and the autumn was not her fault.
Within the finals, it was Italy’s Arianna Fontana that clinched gold medal and Netherland’s Suzanne Schulting grabbing silver, and Australia’s Boutin settled with bronze.
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