Cuban athlete kicks official in the face after being disqualified in a medal match

[Scimmia]

Originally Posted by Badmamajama

The judges sucked throught the olympics...after banning somone in a medal fight you kind of have to expect SOME kind of retribution, whether you as a judge were right or wrong doesnt matter, that is a life changing decision. Sucks for the judge sucks for the coach and really sucks for the Competetor.

Excuse me, are you saying that the fighter was justified? That's messed up, there is NO situation where something like this is acceptable.

[BigVito]

Originally Posted by Scimmia

Excuse me, are you saying that the fighter was justified? That's messed up, there is NO situation where something like this is acceptable.

unless the judge is wrong

[madurolover]

Good thing he wasn't judging the javelin throw. OUCH

[pro2625]

The judging in boxing was ridiculous along with the women's gymnastis and diving....

There were many nights when I was up late watching and getting so mad at the judges I couldnt sleep ;p;

[Badmamajama]

Originally Posted by Scimmia

Excuse me, are you saying that the fighter was justified? That's messed up, there is NO situation where something like this is acceptable.

Justified? No. I never said justified, I said he should have expected it. In a game where emotions are high, and this is the olympics we are talking about here, you're on your way to win a bronze medal and then all of a sudden the ref DQs you? Holy sh!t, Im suprised all he got was a kick in the face. Had it been me he probably would be in a coma right now and me sitting in an 8x8.

[chippewastud79]

Originally Posted by Badmamajama

Justified? No. I never said justified, I said he should have expected it. In a game where emotions are high, and this is the olympics we are talking about here, you're on your way to win a bronze medal and then all of a sudden the ref DQs you? Holy sh!t, Im suprised all he got was a kick in the face. Had it been me he probably would be in a coma right now and me sitting in an 8x8.

Wow, so now if an official makes a 'questionable' albeit justified call to disqualify someone well within the rules, they should expect to be attacked? I think your judgement is a little skewed in this thinking. Just because a referee makes a call he should not have to fear being attacked and especially should not anticipate it. And you give the athlete the green light to go even farther than one kick? One kick and one punch was one thousand times more disgusting than anything that should have ever happened. And to make it even worse, he and his coach never appologized.

In my opinion, the Cuban athlete was one of the biggest clowns and black-eyes on the Olympics. He lost because he could not stand up during his injury timeout and his rule-regulated clock timed out. Upon which, well within the rules of the sport, he was disqualified. To this, he responds by jumping up, clearly uneffected by the 'broken toe' that cost him the match and kicks the official in the face and proceeds to punch an Olympic official as well. That is neither justified, expected or anticipated by anyone who has ever participated in sports at any level and has no place in sports and particularly on the world stage at the sports highest level. I, for one, am glad that the governing body of the sport chose to bar them both from the sport for life. Anyone who can do something like that and then not even appologize for it and claim it 'justified' are a bunch of morons.

[Badmamajama]

The judge stripped away this guys entire manhood! How do you think hes going to act?

If your up for a medal and you get DQed how are you going to act? One would be very pissed, whether you were wrong or not, one would be very very pissed. Whather one acts on it or not are two different things which I am not arguing here. In this instance the Cuban decided to act on it which got him barred from the sport for life. But n omatter I never said he was justified, I said I would have done the same thing no matter how vulgar or obscene you may think it was.

If thats my last time in the Olympics, my last shot at a medal and all of a sudden its all gone, Im pretty sure I would snap too.

[andrewsutherland2002]

I do not condone the mistreatment of officials in sporting events.

This is similar to this thread:
http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthr...t=umpire+pitch

[chippewastud79]

Originally Posted by Badmamajama

The judge stripped away this guys entire manhood! How do you think hes going to act?

I am sorry, but what the judge did was act within the rules when the athlete tried to take advantage of them. The judge did not strip the athlete's 'manhood'. He made a call, the correct call, it may have been controversial (mostly to the athlete it went against) but it was still right. There should be no recourse, particularly physical, for doing his job. There is no justification to any of the actions the athlete did once he made the decision to assault a referee and then an Olympic official.

To say he lost on a controversial call and then he snapped, assaulting two people, was something that could be expected is just plain irresponsible. Man up, he lost, I am sure he had lost before and never attacked anyone, Why is this time any different?

How do I think he is going to act? Like a man, a man who challenged the injury time rules of the sport and lost. He was correctly disqualified. Act like a man and do the right thing. Does he have the option to complain? Yes. The option to assault someone for doing their job? No, never ever does any actions of the official, correct or incorrect, give you the right to assault them.

He stripped himself of his 'manhood; by acting like a child throwing a tantrum and hitting two people when he lost

[BigVito]

I did not see the judge touch the guy, where is this "manhood" grabbing?

[Jonesee]

Come on guys. You have to appreciate the irony of what happend.

The ref was kicked by the same foot/toe that the ref deemed was unfit to continue because he exceeded the 1 minute injury time!!!

Obviously the athlete exceeded the time. Obviously the foot wasn't hurt so bad he couldn't continue, and oviously the ref got a multi-sensory verification the foot was fine. Ya gotta laugh at that!!!

No I don't condone the athlete doing what he did. No excuse.

But as I said earlier, the officiating was the worse I have seen in 30 years of following the sport. The Olympic officials should be as talented as the athletes and they weren't.

[mash]

Originally Posted by Badmamajama

The judge stripped away this guys entire manhood! How do you think hes going to act?

If your up for a medal and you get DQed how are you going to act? One would be very pissed, whether you were wrong or not, one would be very very pissed. Whather one acts on it or not are two different things which I am not arguing here. In this instance the Cuban decided to act on it which got him barred from the sport for life. But n omatter I never said he was justified, I said I would have done the same thing no matter how vulgar or obscene you may think it was.

If thats my last time in the Olympics, my last shot at a medal and all of a sudden its all gone, Im pretty sure I would snap too.

I don't know about you, but one of the reasons I am glued to the TV during the Olympics is because I am in awe of how disciplined these elite athletes are, especially under the pressure of the games. Some awful things happen, all the time, and you see how much grace these people show. They all train for years and put everything on the line to compete. Did you happen to see anyone else "snap" like this? He suckered the referee for enforcing the rules. He disgraced himself, his country and his sport.
Even if you argue that he did this in the heat of the moment, afterwards he made no apologies, and his coach implied he was justified to do what he did.
I don't care what was at stake for him, he is a punk.

[Jonesee]

Originally Posted by mash

I don't know about you, but one of the reasons I am glued to the TV during the Olympics is because I am in awe of how disciplined these elite athletes are, especially under the pressure of the games. Some awful things happen, all the time, and you see how much grace these people show. They all train for years and put everything on the line to compete. Did you happen to see anyone else "snap" like this? He suckered the referee for enforcing the rules. He disgraced himself, his country and his sport.
Even if you argue that he did this in the heat of the moment, afterwards he made no apologies, and his coach implied he was justified to do what he did.
I don't care what was at stake for him, he is a punk.

Actually you had a couple of meltdowns. There was the boxer that lost his mind for a second, thought he was Mike Tyson and bit a guy. He was DQ'd.

You also had a wrestler leave the podium, take his bronze off an leave it on the mat. This last act carries a lot of meaning because a wrestler who is retiring will take his wrestling shoes off and leave them in the center of the mat to signify he won't return. The wrestler was stripped of his bronze.

[JaKaAch]

Fidel Castro adds his

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

[Badmamajama]

OK you guys win. The Olympics arent an emotional sport and when you get DQed youre not allowed to flip out at all.


But what do you think those athletes did back stage away from the cameras?