Talk:Sockgate

Multiple issues tag

I agree there are multiple issues with this article, but as a starting point, it would be useful for the person who placed the tag to note what issue he/she thought existed. ludahai 魯大海 (talk) 08:42, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Should hate on something else

The referees involved in the judging weren't Chinese or korean; the main ref was Filipino. The below 49kg women's taekwondo doesn't even have a Korean contestant, so there's really no reason for the Koreans, in their point of view, to disqualify a possible winner. The public and the netizens are going pretty mad about this, but the Taiwanese sports commitee is basically accepting their dq. If they were serious, they would boycott, but all the other Taekwondo athletes compete as if nothing happened and the coach hasn't said anything after the day of the incident. Plus, Taiwanese newspapers might sound real biased, but news from everywhere else tells the rest of the world that Yang Shuchun's electronic sensors were in no doubt intentionally placed after the first inspection. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rhinet (talk • contribs) 12:37, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Uh...Are you commenting on the article or the event?Yel D'ohan (talk) 13:01, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

There are some issues that need to be checked to see if the sources are saying anything about them:

Why did the Taiwanese coach allow his athlete to wear extra sensors in the first place? Even if they were detected and removed before the match, it may still indicate an attempt to cheat.

In martial arts, respect for competition authority is mandatory, so is Yang being criticized or sanctioned for disrepecting the match authorities by refusing to bow to her opponent and leave the mat after the dq?

If the sources support it, discussion of these two issues needs to be in the article. Cla68 (talk) 23:52, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

According to the Chinese version of this article (cited with Mandarin news), the so-called "extra sensors" are the standard part of the socks and was used as instructed by the manual.Yel D'ohan (talk) 16:37, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Taiwanese News source

We need to include more objective news sources for this article. The current version of Sockgate is presenting mostly Taiwanese point of view, which isn't necessarily true. For instance, the main referee of this match was FERNANDEZ Stephen Estanislao and he isn't by no means an ethnic Korean. Only in Taiwanese media, it was claimed the referee was Filipino-Korean, named Hong Sung-day (洪性天). If you have some knowledge of Korean Hanja, 天 is pronounced as 'Chun', not 'day or dae'. Many Taiwanese media reported this misspelled name, but his name doesn't appear on the official Asian game website. (The spoke person for the WTF was an American-Korean, and he defended the decision made by the referee and judges. He is probably the only ethnic-Korean (not even a South Korean citizen.) involved in Yang's disqualification.

Second, there's no mention of all other Taiwanese athletes correctly wear the sensor and two of them even(?) won the gold medal in 2010 Asian games. If Taiwanese Taekwondo team didn't know the changes of rule/sensor, then all of them should wear old sensor. But only some of them did. If China and South Korea plotted against Taiwanese athletes, then none of them wouldn't win the gold medal. But Taiwan earned two gold and three bronze medals in Taekwondo.

Overall, I think Taiwanese media over-reacted to some extent and we need a different perspective on the event. PBJT (talk) 00:32, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Sensors?

The article fails to explain what these sensors are, what they're supposed to sense, and how they were allegedly illegal. The writer assumes the reader has some knowledge of competitive martial arts. Additional clarification would be helpful. Boneyard90 (talk) 08:35, 15 April 2013 (UTC)