Brilio.net – Behind the festivities Tokyo 2020 Olympics, there were some discrepancies that had occurred. One of them happened after the Chinese women’s doubles shout Chen Qing Chen. The cheers that came out in the middle of the match made the Korean Badminton Agency submit a complaint to the Badminton World Federation (WBF). The exclamations that emerged during the women’s doubles match against Korea were highlighted in this case.
Reported brilio.net from the Koreatimes, Wednesday (4/8), the WBF code of ethics states that athletes must not use swear words that are commonly known and understood in any language, whether profane or indecent and pronounced clearly for the referee or spectators to hear.
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The reason is, during the women’s doubles match against the Korean pair Kim So-yeong and Kong Hee-yong on Tuesday (27/7), Chen was heard shouting “cao”, an expletive in Mandarin. He repeated the word non-stop after he and his partner, Jia Yifan, lost in the first set to a Korean player and even after scoring. China beat Korea with a score of 2-1.
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“It was just self-indulgence to score goals. I don’t expect my bad pronunciation to cause misunderstandings for anyone. I will also adjust my pronunciation,” Chen wrote on his Weibo account.
Chen was heard saying the term “cao” loudly when competing against the Korean pair in the semifinal match on (31/7). However, the athlete from China and his partner were defeated by the Indonesian athlete, Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu in the final round.
