Us And Chen: The War Of Sarah Stevenson’s Foot
SARAH Stevenson is a Briton abroad in the summertime. There she is kicking a foreigner in the face. More power to her foot.
What’s this? Anorak reveling in uber violence? Nothing of it. This is the Olympics, and Sarah has put in the hard yards to be able to kick allowed to kick a foreinger in the face, throat and head in peacetime and away from a football ground.
Here’s Sarah Stevenson kicking China’s Chen Zhong in the face. Wahmmo! That’s gotta hurt. But the judges don’t see it.
Chen wins, proetevting her record of never having lost in the Olympics before, claiming the gold medal in the 2000 and 2004 Games.
That’s her with the bleeding nose and the lob-sided face. “Wot kicksh in de faysh?” she tells Chinese camera crews and hacks. “Zish isht un greeet dai futr Ckina.”
But the Olympcis are on the telly. And the vido judges look. Did Chen fall down the stairs? Was she hit by Chainese tank? Or was she kicked?
Video studied. Decision reversed. Stevenson wins!
And the war with China looms ever larger…
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August 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
And here is the video!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/taekwondo/7578828.stm
The indominitable spirit coming to a head…
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I always wonder why oh why I am not interested in watching sports …
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I think they are saving the partially sighted judges for the Paralympics…
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
here’s the link. Wonder if its one of the judges who didn’t ’see’ either of the two Brits winning kicks?
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/11119/taekwondo_loser_disagrees,_kicks_judges_ass_
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
And lets hear it for Angel Matos who attacked the referee, throwing punches and kicks, after being declared the loser in his bronze medal match.
He’s been banned; bloody judges just don’t understand the martial spirit…
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Wonder where she gets her pedicures done?
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Yay! never thought I’d see the day when I could comment on Taekwondo! before yesterday I didn’t even know what it was.
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
She’s bronzed, podiumed and medalled
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Go Yampster! Thats the second laugh out loud moment you’ve given me today… am scanning the articles for the hat trick LMAO!
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Yes, I watched all that and was horrified as well as fascinated. Sadly she then lost….. fingers crossed for a bronze.
But didn’t the same thing happen to the brit lad yesterday in the same sport?
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Nonsense, Yampster; I was really impressed by the spirit in which the local fans of Fleetwood Mac rose to the occasion…
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
The crowd were disgraceful. I speak some Mandarin and I am sure they were chanting ‘You’re gonna get your head kicked in’. And so it was. Such is the spirit of the games