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South Koreans take enormous pride in watching their speed skaters win top honors, including October's haul of 15 out of 20 gold medals at World Cup skating events in China. But national pride turned to anger last week after allegations surfaced that at least three members of the South Korean women's team may have been victims of beatings by some of their coaches. According to three unsigned letters sent to a local news agency, the coaches allegedly administered frequent lashings with plastic skate guards, hockey sticks, shoes and skate sharpeners: "Anything could be turned into a rod," read...
...have a lot of pride at the way that we did that. There wasn’t a second of that game that we weren’t trying and that we weren’t going for it, and that takes a lot of character,” she added...
...love The Game as much as anyone, but the hypocrisy of publicly taking pride in a football team and then privately strangling it just disgusts...
What if the players refused to go along with it? What if they stood up and said, “You can’t single us out and continue to crack down on us and then pretend like we’re the pride of the Ivy League on one fall day each year?” What if Saturday came, but the players didn?...
Though they came up short, losing to Princeton and Navy, and took fourth place in the tournament, the players left Bucknell with a sense of pride as their season came to a close...