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代班小王子本期给大家带来仁川亚运会的朴泰桓特辑~~看了好多他的访谈感觉他真是个生错国家的英雄啊有木有，人品心态都不错~但是无论是韩国对于游泳运动的支持力度还是韩国民众成王败寇的态度都略让人心寒啊~难怪我们家孙杨这么爱他！！
speaker说的是他跟孙杨在200米自由泳比赛中都输了···
speed告诉大家他从民族英雄到不得不去参加综艺节目，接广告赚钱游泳的心酸历程~~→_→韩国媒体对他没有得到金牌的评论是“失格”，与之对比，刘翔哥哥就幸运多了；
obstacle探讨了下韩国对运动员的态度~~国庆快乐~！！enjoy~~
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Part I: Speaker

Sun Yang, Park Tae-Hwan, Lose 200m Freestyle Medal

It's day three of the Asian Games.

Hosting nation South Korea is topping the medal list with 12 golds, 10 silvers and 9 bronzes.
China is close behind with 12 golds, 9 silvers and 11 bronzes. Japan has 7 golds to take third place.

A recap of yesterday's competition, In the men's 200 metres freestyle final, two medal favorites, Sun Yang and Park Tae-Hwan, lost to Japanese athlete Kosuke Hagino who made a strong push during the last 25 metres to claim the title.

Sun Yang admitted that psychological and technical issues are the reasons for losing the gold. "I paid too much attention on Park Tae-Hwan's performance and overlooked Kosuke Hagino. Another problem is that I didn't do it well when I touch the wall. I was in a hurry and it was my thumb touched the wall and it got sprained." Sun took in a silver medal for China, while Park Tae-Hwan added a bronze medal to South Korea. All three men will compete again in the 400 metres freestyle.

In badminton group stage, the Chinese women's team beat Japan 3-1 to advance to the finals. China will meet with South Korea in the final round later on today. On men's side, China ousted Chinese Hong Kong 3-0 to make to the semi-finals, and will be clashing with Malaysia this afternoon. Hosting South Korea played tough to conquer Japan 3-2, which took six hours to complete the game.

Japan is the 2014 Thomas Cup champion. During the semi-finals, South Korea will meet with Chinese Taipei. In volleyball, Chinese women's team took an easy 3-nil win against Kazakhstan in their opening group match. In their second match, China will play Chinese Hong Kong, 2 pm Beijing time.

Source: CRI English
http://english.cri.cn/12394/2014/09/22/3781s845003.htm
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Part II: Speed

Korean swimmer Park wins appeal but loses title

[Time 2]
Park Tae-hwan surrendered his Olympic 400 metres freestyle title after a roller-coaster first day in the Olympic pool that started with a shock disqualification and ended with reinstatement and a silver medal.

"Today has been a long day for me," he said after ending up well beaten by Sun Yang, China's first male Olympic swimming gold medallist.

A national hero to his compatriots after he overcame childhood asthma to become the first South Korean swimmer to win Olympic gold in Beijing four years ago, Park appeared in the morning to have blown his chance.

After a protest, and several hours of deliberation, governing body FINA back-tracked on the referee's decision that it was a false start.They decided he could compete in the evening's final at the expense of Canadian eighth-placed qualifier Ryan Cochrane, who missed out by one hundredth of a second.
Park, who had been told by his coach to rest and have lunch pending the appeal, made the fastest start of anyone in the final and set a world record pace for the first 300 metres before fading.

He did not dwell on the stress but indicated it had played a part in his defeat."Because of the decision, which was unfortunate, it was very difficult for me during this period after the heats and before the final," he said. "I'm sure there was some influence."

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[Time 3]
RARE REINSTATEMENT

FINA said the unusual reversal was based on the recommendation of its technical swimming commission but provided no further details in a one paragraph statement that begged plenty of questions.A venue press officer sitting alongside Park at a post-race news conference tried to intervene when questions were asked about the disqualification, telling reporters to email FINA instead of asking the athlete.

FINA official earlier said the disqualification had been based on what the referee had seen.Timing is done by Omega, who have introduced new electronic sensor pads on the blocks for London to measure swimmers' reaction times, but only the referee can declare the disqualification.Reinstatements are rare but FINA has performed similar U-turns before. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, American Aaron Peirsol was reinstated as the winner of the 200m backstroke after winning an appeal against his disqualification.

Park seemed to have made a schoolboy error in moving too early for a heat he should have won easily, a mistake that provided a flashback to his Olympic debut in 2004 when he was also disqualified from his preliminary heat in the same distance.The youngest South Korean athlete at those Athens Games, he was so upset he hid in a bathroom for hours.On Saturday he also momentarily hunched up on the floor, wiping his eyes, but it was more out of relief and happiness than despair."The coach said to forget about today and tomorrow we focus on the heats," he said. "I need to throw this thing away so I can really focus. It's not going to be easy but I will try."

Park had been expected to take on the mantle of retired Australian Ian Thorpe as the dominant swimmer in the men's 400 after his Beijing win but has struggled to assert his authority on the distance.After the last Olympics, he failed to qualify for the final at the 2009 world championships in Rome but won the title in Shanghai last July despite scraping into the last eight with only the seventh best time.
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Source: Rediff Sports
http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/london-olympics-korean-swimmer-park-wins-appeal-but-loses-title/20120729.htm

South Korean swimmer Park reinstated after DQ

[Time 4]
Defending champion Park Tae-hwan was reinstated for the 400-meter freestyle event on the opening day of the Olympic swimming competition after South Korea appealed his disqualification.

FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu told the Associated Press that the swimming governing body issued its ruling after reviewing video footage of what had been deemed a false start.

"I can confirm that Park has been reinstated for the 400 freestyle," Marculescu said.

Park's time Saturday was 3 minutes, 46.68 seconds, which qualified him in fourth position. He knocks out Ryan Cochrane of Canada, who had taken the final qualifying position in eighth.

South Korea's protest went first to FINA's technical swimming committee, which upheld the disqualification. South Korea then took it to a jury of appeal, which ruled in Park's favor.

Park was first to touch the wall in his heat and appeared bewildered when told of the disqualification.

"I don't know why," Park said. "I need to speak to my coach to find out."

Marculescu could not explain why the judge on the pool deck called for a disqualification.

"It's a very good question," Marculescu said. "Human error maybe."

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Source: USA Today
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/london/tennis/story/2012-07-28/south-korea-park-tae-hwan-disqualified/56554826/1

Fans Furious Over Swimming Hero’s Treatment

[Time 5]
South Korea’s national swimming federation is in hot water with fans of Olympic hero Park Tae-hwan.

The swimming superstar’s admirers flooded the Korea Swimming Federation’s online bulletin board with livid posts after the 22-year-old nicknamed “Marine Boy” spent an hour last week promoting health supplements on a home shopping TV channel–a type of appearance often seen as a sign that big-name celebrities are past their commercial prime and need cash.

This came after news surfaced earlier this year that the federation’s board had decided not to grant Park an expected reward of 50 million won, or $45,000, for winning two silver medals in the 2012 London Olympics. The federation said, without publicly giving a reason, that the money would instead be used to sponsor young diving athletes.

Park’s supporters struck back this week after his shopping channel appearance.

“I am so dumbstruck and angry that the federation decided to use the priceless reward supposed to go to an athlete who trained so hard for four years,” a fan named Kang Ji-yeon wrote on the federation’s website forum.

Another supporter, Lee Eun-woo, wrote: “Is a player just a slave for you? He fell out of favor just because he didn’t attend your event?”

Local media and Internet users have speculated that Park and the federation disagreed over scheduling issues. In one case, Park–citing personal matters–declined to attend a federation-hosted swimming competition right after the London Olympics.

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[Time 6]
The federation couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Friday.

Park has been more sanguine than many of his fans. “I don’t have any hard feelings about not getting the Olympics reward,” he wrote on his online fan club site last month. But he added that “it would have made me feel much better if they (the federation) had informed my father or my manager of the decision in advance.”

After Park won the gold medal in the men’s 400 meter freestyle at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, he became one of the hottest properties in the country’s advertising industry, endorsing everything from sports jackets to air conditioners.

But last September his main sponsor, SK Telecom, declined to extend its 4-year sponsorship contract with him, and Park has been struggling to find a new sponsor. He is reported to be paying for his training out of his own pocket.

But Park has remained buoyant.

Upon returning last month from Australia, where he had been training for the 2014 Asian Games, he said: “I will try my best to show that my race hasn’t been finished yet.”

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Source: The Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2013/03/22/fans-furious-over-swimming-heros-treatment/

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Part III: Obstacle

Do Koreans want to support their athletes or not?

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South Korea, a small country in Asia, got 28 medals at London Olympic on 2012. This remarkable record on sports competition is one of elements representing South Korea. Also Pyeongchang wins the 2018 Olympic bid, that way; Korea becomes only the second Asian country to host the Winter Games. There was a world-famous athlete of Korea - Yuna Kim.

Yuna Kim is now one of the most famous figure skaters in the world. She won winter Olympic, and every time she plays, it is becoming issue that many broadcasts and newspapers are telling about her all over the world. She is an obviously walking-billboard representing South Korea. Emotional and passionate Korean people scream and cry for her win and establish fan-club supporting her. However, weak supporting from government and jealousy people seems putting her into difficult situations.

Compare to her long-time rival, Mao Asada, Yuna Kim is not supported enough. Yuna Kim was paying rent for practice at ice link filed until she entered Korea University at 2009. This year, she graduated and now she started to face the reality that she needs to pay every expense for her own play. TV advertisements are only her choices to overcome the economic situations. People easily blame Korean athletes on TV, because Korean people consider it as negligence of practices. On the other hand, Mao Asada is sponsored by more than 10 Japanese enterprises and applies sponsored money to the payment. Asada appears on TV shows off and on and her fans enjoy watching those shows. The treatment is completely different. Kim is not only one athlete who is in difficult economic situation. Tae hwan Park, a young swimming athlete spent 5 months without a sponsor, will attend an official ceremony at Incheon City Hall and join the Incheon City Hall swimming team finally. He lost his practicing pool, and showed up on Home-shopping program and met a big reaction.

And another example, Park Tae-hwan (24), who was at the center of controversy for his appearance on a home shopping network and for his unpaid reward, has found a new home. On March 28, Park Tae-hwan will attend an official ceremony at Incheon City Hall and join the Incheon City Hall swimming team.

This will be his new home, which he found 5 months after the termination of his contract with SK Telecom. However, Park Tae-hwan has been through a lot during that time. Park Tae-hwan won the silver medal in the men's 200m and 400m freestyle at the London Olympics and was supposed to receive a reward of 50 million won from the Korea Swimming Federation last year.

However, the federation did not award Park his reward. Instead earlier this year, the Board of Directors decided to use the money to support rising stars in diving. The federation's excuse to support diving prospects did not seem to make sense since Park Tae-hwan had donated all his previous rewards. It only revealed the conflicts between the federation and Park Tae-hwan.

In the middle of this situation, Park appeared on a home shopping channel and a blog on The Wall Street Journal posted an article questioning why a national swimming star was appearing on a shopping channel promoting products for money, fueling the controversy.

Tensions between the swimming federation and Park Tae-hwan started in 2007. After Park Tae-hwan became a rising star of Korean swimming with his three gold medals at the 2006 Doha Asian Games, he trained with a personal team rather than train at the Taereung Athlete's Village with the other members of the national team.

At the World Championships in Melbourne, Australia in 2007, he won a gold medal in the 400m freestyle, proving that his choice was not wrong. However, his performance afterwards was a bit shaky. The power struggle between Park's team and the national team continued.

Although Park Tae-hwan won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he displayed his worst performance at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, where he was eliminated in the qualifying round. After this event, SK Telecom sponsored Park, spending over 8 billion won in two years until the London Olympics to execute their 2012 London Olympics Gold Medal Project.

They hired Michael Bohl to coach Park, and as Park spent more than 2/3 of a year training overseas, he virtually left the national team. SK Telecom made hefty donations to the swimming federation to ease the tension between the federation and Park.

If it wasn't for the ridiculous incident, in which Park was disqualified only to have that judgment call reversed, he was likely to have won the gold medal in the 400m. After all, Park had displayed progress, enough to expect a new world record, throughout his training.

The judge's call at the Olympics lit the potential flare between Park and the federation. The Korea Sports Council and the Korea Swimming Federation boasted that the judge's call was reversed, "because of an active response, well-prepared," but in fact it was Park Tae-hwan's personal coaching staff, which had the judgment reversed.

Coach Todd Duncan wrote a formal objection in English, and Coach Bohl appealed showing swimming officials from all over the world videos of the starting moment recorded by the Australian national team.

At the time, senior officials of the swimming federation said, "Park Tae-hwan was slightly swinging. The disqualification call was correct," and shook their heads. They even said, "There's no way the call will be overturned."

Witnessing such reactions from the federation, Park's personal team said they felt betrayed. Park's early return to Korea, which most thought was the cause of these conflicts, was actually a minor issue.

Sponsors are not only problem. Short track skating is a one of the strongest sports, but there was an ugly situation 2 years ago. Hyunsoo Ahn, talented short track skater from none-major Sports University had issue with Korean Skating Union. He started to decline in 2006, however, after he spoke of chronic factionalism in Korean short track skating. Intense factional fighting had broken out between Korea National Sport University and other colleges, and certain athletes, including Ahn, had been rumored to have been deliberately left off the national squad. Russian national team persuaded him to join their team and play. Ahn dropped the Korean nationality and playing as a Russian athlete in Russian National Skating team. What does it mean? It shows South Korea just lost our talented player with open eyes. If South Korean people do not change the system of supporting nation's sports, we will get second Hyunsoo Ahn.

Does it really matter the privileges for athletes? The hottest issue about athletes' privilege is a military service problem, and it heats up the whole country. On 2002, people who were crying for becoming Semi-finalists of World cup cooled down so fast when they started to discuss about the exemption from military services. Recently, Cleveland Indians outfielder Choo Shin-soo helped the Korean team win a gold medal at the Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010 and avoided the military draft, and the situation was same. People (especially male) just turn their back when athletes escape from military services.

Rewarding athletes who were enhancing national prestige is necessary. It seems so wrong when people cheering them during the game and turn back showing duplicity when government or sponsors try to reward them in national scale. An athlete like Yuna Kim has no choice to help and raise her younger generation by herself, because there is no way to bringing-up. People's jealousy is killing young sports players in Korea.

Toward upcoming 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic, more systematic and heart-warming treatment for athletes is needed for becoming true-developed country which must start to be ready for 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic after successful games on Sochi Winter Olympic.

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Source: Pravda
http://english.pravda.ru/sports/games/25-06-2013/124937-korean_athletes-0/
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Time2 1'47''
Time3 1'40''
Park started with a shock disqualification of his 400-freestyle title and ended up with a silver medal.
Introduction of Park's swinging expriences.

Time4 1'09''
Park was disqualified because of a false start but truth is still confusing.

Time5 1'13''
Time6 0'43''
Korea federation retreated their fund to Park when he won a silver.
Park is struggling with a sudden disregard from sponsors.

Obstacle: 6'08''
Athletes in South Korea often face economic problem due to a lack of sponsor.
EG: Park,who just got a disqualification and ended up with a silver modal, was unfairly treated when he didn't meet the Federation's expectation.
There is an ugly treatment to althelets in Korea.
Rewarding atheletes is necessary,otherwise the country will lose more talented althelets

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time 2 1’24
    Park Tae-hwan gets silver medal but have some difficult time
time 3 2’29
    problem what park is facing
time 4 1’17
    about disqualification and reinstate of Park
time 5  1’12
    Park go to some shopping TV channel instead get winner reward
time 6 00’58
   Park won the gold but have to find a new sponsor.
obstacle 7’46
    how South Korea National team of federal government treat their athlete

maple760

Time2        1         50         229        125         Park are influenced by sth and lost in battle with Sunyang
Time3        2         20         345        148         Park made a mistake happened before. Although Park won in Athen and Shanghai, today he did only the seventh best records
Time4        1         10         187        160         reinstated for the problem, and he did not know what happens
Time5        1         42         239        141         money won by Park can not be owned by him; his fans digreed with this committee's behavior
Time6                35         185        317        
Time7        7         28         1294        173         YK and Park have similar situation in Korea. They can not get enough funds to support their practicing. Especially Park once appeared in TV channel to promote products in order to get more money paid for his facilities. After sponsoring from SK telecom, Park gets more money and free to do his way but the conflicts between his team and national team caused more problems.

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Speaker
Sun owed his failure to psychological tactical issues and he said he didn't do well when touching the wall. All three man will compete again. play hard to conquer Japan.

[Time 2]
[Time 3] 4‘09
Park committed to preliminary heat and encountered a disqualification, but finally won a reinstatement.

[Time 4] 1'16
Park didn't why there was a disqualification.

[Time 5] 1'44
[Time 6] 56''
Park lost sponsors probably because he didn't attend the events the federation held.

Obstacle
The conflict between Yuna Kim and the federation -->same situation for Park
The experience of Park. The federation supported a disqualification but his coach refused to accept it.
The hottest issue about athletes is military service programs.
Rewarding the athletes is necessary.

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SPEED
time 2
46’'
time 3
1’30’'
time 4
39’'
time 5
57’'
time 6
36’'

OBSTACLE(1294)
4’32’'
korea is a competitive country on sports and has been the second country to hold the winter olympic games.
Yuna kim has difficult economic situation
same thing happened in park.
park’s personal training team has a tense relationship with the nation training team.

a2360239

time2 1'18 in a competition P was disqualified but then reinstated, the whole
thing has a influence on his later performance

compatriots 同国人 deliberation 考虑  dwell on老是想着

time3 2'33the reinstatement was rare and P tried to throw this thing away

time4 1'19 the process about the diaqualification and how P prove that he
did not make a mistake, it is the referee's mistake

upheld 支持
debut 初次露面
time5 1'40 the federation refused to grant P and P attended to the TV
show, a show seen as a activity for big-name who need money
there are many supporters of P who criticeze the federation
maybe the real reason why the federation did not grant P is the scheduling
issue.

struck back回击 dumbstruck 被吓得目瞪口呆

time6 1'02
P1:the response of P to the act of federation
P2:when P gets the golden medal, he advertised many products
P3:his major sponsor stopped the contract with him and P trained with his
own money

buoyant:able to float能浮起来的;价格tend to rise; happy and confident


obstacle 6'49
the government of Korea did not support the training of the athlets.

canty221

Time2  1‘26  
reinstatement 恢复，复原，复职   compatriot 同胞，同国人  deliberation 考虑，审议
Korean swimmer P lost gold medal to Sunyang and been through a difficult time
Time3  2‘12
blackstroke 仰泳，反手击球  
A rare reinstatement for P
Time4  0‘49