I love Korea but even my Korean friends admit their referees tend to be dirty in international competition, especially in 1984's Olympics in which a light weight boxing gold medal was robbed from an American boxer to a Korean boxer. In that match the Korean boxer was beaten up all the way to the final second but he came out as the winner. During the last World Cups, there's Chinese students in Beijing who got so frustrated at the Korean NT's preferential treatment to the point of getting into fights with Korean students at Wu Dao Kou district. I absolutely love Korea but I have to admit that I wouldn't want to attend games in Korea if I was a foreign athlete.
I think what you are saying happened in 1988 when roy jones who is now a pro. and considered to be the best fighter p4p today. I think that is the most famous home town dec. ever. And it is the 1st time that a silver medalist got the best boxer of the game which usually goes to the gold medalist. But if only hu wei dong did'nt missed that free throw things will be different.
South Korea stuns China for Asiad basketball gold Posted: 6:40 PM (Manila Time) | Oct. 14, 2002 By Jim Slater Agence France-Presse BUSAN, South Korea - South Korea snapped a 20-year win drought against China with the most shocking upset in Asian Games basketball history, a 102-100 over-time stunner here Monday that signals the end of an era. Chinese 2.26m giant Yao Ming, who expects to join the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets within two weeks, received some NBA-style intensity a bit sooner than expected from a determined Korean squad. "I never thought we could beat the Chinese team," said Korean big man Seo Jang- Hoon, who together with Kim Joo-Sung helped make Yao work hard for every point and rebound. "At the beginning, we never thought we could beat them. We just wanted to go out and play as hard as we could so that we would not regret." Combined with a disappointing 12th-place showing at the World Championships last month, the loss could mean the ouster of Wang Fei as coach of a national team that already lost playmaker Wang Zhi Zhi, who decided not to return home for the events so he could land a new NBA contract. Yao led China with 23 points and 22 rebounds while Liu Yudong added 22 points. Yao and fellow big man Menke Batere are assured of playing on NBA clubs when the season opens in two weeks. But they will not go home with Asiad gold. "We shouldn't have lost," Menke said. "We're really tired after the world championships and the Asian Games. After the game, the coach said we shouldn't have lost the game like that." China had steamrolled previous opponents in the Asian Games, but could not meet the challenge of a team that had not beaten China since the 1982 Asian Games final in Delhi, a run of four consecutive Asiad crowns. "The games were really easy up until this game," Menke said. "Even so, I think we over prepared ourselves for this one." Kim scored 21 points while Hyun Joo-Yup and Chun Hee-Chul added 20 points each in the shocker. "Every day, every game, we have made a lot of effort," Kim said. "We worked really hard for this result. And our work has been effective. "We really believed in ourselves. Every player believed in the other players. We knew we could count on each other." Seo's 3-pointer 18 seconds into the over-time gave the Koreans a 93-90 lead, their first lead since the opening basket and one they would never relinquish. Hyun and Moon Kyung-Eun connected on back-to-back baskets to give the hosts a 99-94 edge with 1:48 remaining. Yao, who will likely join the NBA Houston Rockets within a week, was called for goaltending to surrender a basket and called for a lane violation to lose the ball as he found himself dogged by Korean big men Seo and Kim. "Yao Ming is a lot stronger than he was before," Kim said. "He's so tall there is no way I can compare with him." Liu hit two free throws with 53 seconds remaining and Hu Weidong sank three more with 21 seconds to play, pulling China within 101-100. But the Chinese had to foul three times to force a free throw situation. By the time Moon got to the line and sank 1-of-2, only 3.1 seconds remained. The Chinese could not get off a final shot before the buzzer. The Koreans outscored China 11-2 in the final two minutes of regulation time. Kim Seung-Hyun scored with 22.8 seconds remaining, then made a steal to set up Moon's 3-pointer that got Korea within 90-88. "It was the full court defense," said Korean coach Kim Jin, who was hurled into the air and caught by his players in the post-win celebration. "We wanted to pressure the ball the whole game and we did that." Chinese veteran Hu missed two pressure-packed free throws with 17.5 seconds remaining and Hyun drove to the hoop for the equalizing basket with 4.7 seconds remaining in regulation. China led 59-46 three minutes into the second half when the Koreans went on a 16-6 run. The Chinese went 5 1/2 minutes without a basket from the field and allowed the Koreans within 65-62 late in the third quarter. The Chinese surged ahead by nine points in the final minutes but then came their epic collapse.
Korea stuns China in Asiad basketball finals Host South Korea pulled off a pulsating 102-100 victory in overtime and dethroned China in the men's basketball finals at the 14th Asian Games in Busan Monday afternoon. The Koreans bounced back from a 36-49 halftime deficit and came through with big baskets in the homestretch of regulation play as the Chinese bombed out in offense and defense. Kim Joo Sung and Hyun Joo Yup led the Koreans' end game surge and finished with 21 and 20 points, respectively. Seven- foot- five Yao Ming topscored for Chine with 23, but he was hardly a factor on the defensive end in the fourth period and overtime period, when the title was fast slipping out of China's grip. Ironically, the Koreans were headed to the battle for third place against Kazakhstan Saturday until Lee Sang Min canned a buzzer beating three-pointer which gave the hosts a 69-68 victory over the Philippines. The Scores: SOUTH KOREA 102 - Kim J.S. 21, Hyun J.Y 20, Chun H.K 20, Seo J.H. 15, Bang S.Y. 10, Moon K.E. 10, Lee S.M. 4, Kim S.H. 2 CHINA 100 - Yao 23, Liu Y. 22, Li 16, Hu 15, Liu W. 11, Gong 6, Menke 4, Chen 3, Zhang 0, Guo 0 Quarterscores: 18-25, 36-49, 62-67, 90-90 reg. 102-100 abs-cbnNEWS.com
why it's so hard to caught that international players want to represent their country??? there must be priorities and if i was an nba quality player then my nba club must realize, that i have to be free when my country playing even qualification games ( a week in november & a week in february ) and if he is against it - a nba quality player finds always job elsewhere.
Ill say this, international players take alot more pride in playing for their country than American players do. I think thats such a shame.
and asian games as a eurpean championships are always qualification tournaments for something bigger : from european championships get 5-6 better teams to world championships and from WC get better teams to olympic games. is this yet hard to imagin why players want that their national teams get better results. and there is also national pride.
