Sándor Liu Shaolin slipped on a bracelet at the Vk in Debrecen, the case went into the coin of the mixed relay.
Perhaps the strangest thing about the strange scene is that it had no effect on the referee …
– I don’t think there’s anything like this in the world … From now on, I’m going to go skating with fifteen bracelets, and I’ll toss it when I start to get tired. I don’t know how it was possible not to make a decision – said Liu Shaolin Sándor, who won the gold medal at 500 m on Saturday, but on Sunday the semi-finals of 1000 m were ruled out due to irregular overtaking. – It would have been a pass in a quarter-final or a semi-final, I don’t know what the rule was in the final, if we had been eliminated, we wouldn’t have done better, but at least it would have had some consequences. Actually, it annoyed me a bit because I could have even broken my leg. This is an unfortunate day.
Sándor Liu Shaolin complained in vain after the incident / Photo: MTI / Zsolt Czeglédi
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As a member of the Liu Brothers ’men’s relay, Viktor Knoch, who won a gold medal at the Pyongyang Winter Olympics, did not see anything similar during his career. Retired excellence agrees with the former teammate that the referee should have stepped in.
– There is no rule that says in black and white, say in football, that the ring must be glued off, for example, but I don’t think there was much precedent for that. When it comes to the semi-finals, I think they are very much passed on to us, and the arbitrator has the right to do so in special cases. I think it could have been acted upon by referring to irregular equipment, such as if the edge of the skate is not properly rounded, you cannot go out on the ice. But excluding the Koreans doesn’t change anything about our situation either, as they finished in fifth place, Knoch explained to our paper.