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LOCAL
taekwondo pundits believed that some points were not
awarded to Tshomlee Go, who lost his first-round match
to Ryan Carneli of Australia, 1-0, Wednesday.
Jobet Morales, a member of the national
coaching staff, believes that the four-man panel of
judges was not able to see points that should have been
awarded to Go.
Morales notably pointed out the axe kick
in the second round given by Go to Carneli that the
judges did not score.
“May mga points na hindi nakita,
especially iyong axe kick na I believe should have
counted,” said Morales, an international referee
himself.
The scoring system of taekwondo is
similar to the one in boxing. Points are given to kicks
in the head and the body if majority of judges press the
button at the same time for one second.
“I think after the round, noong naging
2-0 na, naka-affect na sa kanya iyon. Sumugod na siya ng
sumugod,” said Morales.
Morales said that Carneli did land a
clear shot that gave him points, but he believed that Go
had won the bout.
Monsour del Rosario, a 1988 Olympian
when taekwondo was a demonstration sport, was
questioning the scoring when he annotated the bout,
along with Mark Zambrano, for Solar Sports. He also
mentioned the axe kick that did not count.
RP chief of mission Monico Puentevella
would not comment about the loss of Go, but hinted that
the scoring was also questionable from his point of
view.
“Pareho rin kami ni Monsour,” said
Puentevella in a teleconference with the Philippine
Sports Commission Olympics monitoring group in Manila.
“But every time we defend, sometimes the arguments are
used against us. Whatever Monsour said, tama rin ‘yan.
But I don’t want to sound like a sore loser anymore.”
Puentevella said that it would be better
to move on with Toni Rivero as the last taekwondo jin
vying for a gold medal. |
