South Korea and China speedskating
In the Women’s 3000 meter relay speedskating, South Korea was disqualified for clashing skates with the Chinese skater. When watching the replay on CTV I didn’t think the judge made the correct decision, but when watching it from a different video feed, it was pretty obvious. The still image doesn’t do it justice:
It must be awful to be that lady that caused the disqualification (i.e. she must feel bad for letting down her team) – although the South Koreans are very aggressive speedskaters, I doubt it was intentional. But these types of offenses are strict liability offenses in law, so intention is not a consideration. If it wasn’t for this, they would have had a smashingly huge world record.
Korean fans did get a huge consolation prize with Kim Yu-Na winning gold by a mile over everybody else in women’s figure skating – she absolutely crushed the competition with an astonishing short and long program.