{"id":210,"date":"2002-02-22T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2002-02-22T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/banning-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2002-02-22T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2002-02-22T20:00:40","slug":"banning-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/22\/banning-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tfrom the Olympics may be an idea whose time has come. While most of the Olympic whining attention has focussed on Russia’s threatened hissy-fit,<\/a> Korean criminal acts have gone largely unnoticed. This is all I could find on them (AP<\/a>)
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\nThe threats were received following Ohno’s first race of the Olympics, when he won the silver medal in the 1,000 meters after wiping out near the finish line, USOC spokesman Mike Moran said.<\/p>\n

Another 16,000 e-mails regarding Ohno, mostly from sources in South Korea, crashed the USOC’s Internet server early Thursday for almost nine hours before it was restored, Moran said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n

\n South Korea have appealed against the decision and also plan to file a law suit in a U.S. district court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and AP again:<\/p>\n

<\/a>South Korea is threatening to skip the closing ceremony and go to court over the disqualification that allowed American Apolo Anton Ohno to win a gold medal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, if these folks can’t play nice, they shouldn’t be invited. One South Korean skater has crashed twice in the short-track so far, taking out three skaters the first time and one the second. The first crash caused Ohno to get 6 stitches, and could have caused him to be unable to compete at all. The guy didn’t just crash, he reached out and grabbed Ohno and then crashed. <\/p>\n

Entering kamikaze skaters in the races to take out threats to the country’s main man is as bad as it gets; I don’t see any downside to banning South Korea from the games.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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