In the final of the 11-12 age group at the 2024 Ho Chi Minh City Youth Karate Tournament held on August 18, athlete TM (born in 2013, Tan Binh district) lost 3-11 to an opponent in Binh Thanh district.
Initial records show that this is a medal-fixing case involving adults, with the victims being athletes.
Why did he give it up? According to the child's parents, the Head of the Tan Binh District Karate Group explained: "Binh Thanh District has few medals, so they asked us (Tan Binh District) to give them one."
The truth of the above-mentioned fixing needs to be clarified. And fortunately, the match was recorded, watching the clip, many Karate masters commented that TM won. However, we need a frank and fair answer from the organizing committee.
In grassroots sports competitions, we sometimes hear rumors about medal fixing. Teams with many medals often give them to other teams so that everyone can have achievements and "report" to the locality. The side that gives up the medals often "gives" the other team the medals by having the athletes voluntarily give up, and the other side wins without even fighting. Anyone who has experience in sports competitions knows this fact.
There is a second way, which is to still play the match, but arrange for the referee to force the designated side to win, regardless of how the match actually plays out.
This is a very unfair way of competing in sports. Athletes practice with sweat and blood in the gym, but when it comes to competition, lies interfere and all their efforts are taken away.
In the case of TM, only 11 years old, practicing martial arts and competing, he competed with all his might and hoped to receive fairness from the referees, who were his teachers. But he was disappointed when he learned that he was the victim of a medal-fixing scheme.
This medal-fixing scandal shows that negative things have crept into the sports arena for the sake of results, even buying and selling. And in martial arts, using the referee's power to force one side to lose a match is tarnishing the spirit of martial arts.
Young people who come to martial arts not only learn self-defense and fighting techniques, but also learn "martial arts". Martial arts are the qualities and values that martial arts children are taught and trained in, including noble qualities such as discipline, fairness, kindness, nobility, and honesty.
Being a martial arts teacher who arranges medals regardless of honesty on the field is not worthy of being a teacher because it goes against martial arts and the spirit of martial arts.
Source: https://laodong.vn/su-kien-binh-luan/vu-dan-xep-huy-chuong-karate-lam-hoen-o-tinh-than-thuong-vo-1383633.ldo
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