sigma7: Sims (wtf)
sigma7 ([personal profile] sigma7) wrote2008-08-23 01:39 pm
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Taekwond'oh

JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images, ganked from ESPN.com

If you get disqualified from your taekwondo match for taking too long in injury time, there are many acceptable forms of response. Kicking the judge in the face is not one of them.

The former gold-medal winner and trenchant philosopher pictured above and his coach have been recommended to be banned from the World Taekwondo Federation for life.

"We didn't expect anything like what you have witnessed to occur," said WTF secretary general Yang Jin-suk. "I am at a loss for words."


Indeed.

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