the major problems of Taekwondo (Steven Lopez & Yang, Shu-chun)

A shocking event that led the doom of being eliminated from the Olympics to Taekwondo was something that Herb Perez, the team leader of USA during the Beijing 2008 Olympics, said after he was furious about the poor judging that happened to Steven Lopez, one of the athletes on his team. He spilled out the shocking news. In June, WTF asked the team heads to sign an agreement to not to file any protest that would lead Taekwondo to get kicked out of the Olympics. WTF wanted to do this was that before the Beijing Olympics, Taekwondo was already on the edge of getting eliminated due to its unfairness of its scoring system. The news immediately spread out and everyone couldn’t help wondering whether Taekwondo should be eliminated from the Olympics or not.

The reason was why cheating was really easy in Taekwondo was because the rules were not specific enough and it was up to the judges to determine if they wanted to give points to the athlete’s kick. Due to this matter, much bribery happened in Taekwondo. Judges and referees were bribed to give points easier or harder to either side. To solve this problem, WTF changed all the gear to electronic gear; attempt to make the scoring fairer. However, as a result of this, an outrageous event happened. Which made everyone wonder even if WTF has changed the gear, how fair is Taekwondo?

 Another judging controversy happened in the Guangzhou Asia games in 2010. BBC stated Yang, Shu-chun; a representative of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) was “a promising gold metal”. However she was disqualified after the first round for, what Taiwanese think an unreasonable reason. Yang was leading 9:0 after the first round, when the second round started, the referee announced Yang’s Vietnamese opponent, Thi, Hau-vu won. The judges and referees did not let Yang or her coach explain or ask any questions. This left them and Taiwan with absolutely no clue of what just happened.  

Later on, Zhao Lei, the technical referee of China stated that Yang had worn extra sensors on her heel, which meant that he was accusing Yang of cheating. Yang’s coach protested that Yang had passed the pre-match check, therefore if she did cheat; it was the judge who approved her equipment that was up to blame.

Many people think that Zhao was accusing Yang something that she did not commit was because of Wu, Jiang-yu. Wu is the representative from China that was in Yang’s weight division was the only opponent that had little chance to win Yang. If Wu won the go medal, it could benefit Zhao’s way to being the head of the Chinese Taekwondo Association. This made him even more suspicious of lying; getting Yang eliminated just to make sure Wu could win the gold medal.

The Korean government stated this judging controversy had nothing to do with Korea. The conflict should be between Taiwan and China, not Korea. They hope that Taiwanese don’t band their goods and stop burning their national flag. The Chinese declared that they already have enough medals. They would not use thus kind of dirty deception just to win another god medal. Therefore, Taiwan and China clearly do not have an agreement; Taiwan is going to sue China on the Court of Arbitration for Sports.

Although this story hasn’t ended yet, people are waiting for the WTF to end these judge controversies. Many people are overwhelmed that Taekwondo is still in for the 2012 Olympics. However, it still has many problems waiting for the WTF to solve, the bribery and judging controversy and many more.

Elephant-summary

The elephants in the Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa had entered puberty. It caused them to increase aggression which made them go on a killing-spree, slaying almost 40 rhinoceros. The park officers did want this to happen; therefore they brought more male elephants into the park, which solved their problem.

Although this story has a satisfying ending, however due to the loss of habitat to citification and urbanization, the populations of elephants have been dramatically reducing in Africa. If the population carries on dropping, the elephants will become an extinct species.

Elephants are the biggest land animals. They can swim long distance and walk without a sound. They travel 6,000miles a year searing for food, and can live up to 60 years. Elephants open new habitats for other animals and help trees to scatter their seeds. They have no natural enemies that are except for Human been.

The reasons poaches hunt down elephants are because of elephants’ ivory tusks. Although there are laws being instituted recently, the number of illegal poaching has not decreased, in fact, it has increased. The weapons are more available due to the world war two, which makes the poach rangers more difficult to prevent poaches from killing elephants. Price paid has increase during the years, Smugglers ship raw ivory to factories where it is used in Chinese medicines or are carved into sculptures.

The governments of the Africa countries have attempt to combat the poaches and control the dropping population of elephants by granting the ownership of an area of wild animals to the nearest communities, however this solution has not been very successful. The other solution is to educate the poor villages in Africa and increase more public services.

To save the elephants, and other dropping-population-species, the world has to unite and work together.

Russell Williams

        Even the officers who were working on Russell Williams’ case were extremely shocked of Williams’ crimes. Many professional are trying to find out the gruesome double-life Williams lived, and also the motive to his crimes. At first Williams had a fetish towards women’s underwear. Then he began breaking into people’s houses to steal underwear and taking photos of him in them. He filmed his every move and crime. Two of his biggest crime was the murder of Marie-France Comeau and Jessica Lloyed. In the fall of 2009, he met Marie-France Comeau, a 37-year-old flight attendant. Williams looked up her address in her personal profile and snuck into her house. He spent hours raping and torturing her. He filmed the process and even took pictures of her body after he had murdered her. January 2010, Williams broke into Lloyed’s house and began documenting his every move. He tied up Lloyed’s hands and raped her repeatedly. During the torturing and raping, William’s had promised her that he would set her free, but at the end he still murdered her.

        The most terrifying part of William’s crimes was his achievements and good reputations. He was an eight wing commander, the top job at the country’s largest most important air base. Many of his subordinates were motivated of his positive attitude. He was happily married for 18 years, loved to fish and golf and fly airplanes. He was extremely organized. He cataloged each photo and film which was saved in the computer he shared with his wife.

        William has pleaded to 88 offences which includes two charges of first-degree murder. The official sentence for is a parole of 25 years. He will be 72 by then.