The KSU committee said, while Shim had pushed off Choi's left arm on purpose, it couldn't determine whether Shim had done it to protect herself or to keep Choi from winning a medal. Following its weekslong probe, though, the KSU's investigation committee cleared Shim of race-fixing charges on Dec. Shim was disqualified and Choi ended up in fourth place.Ĭhoi accused Shim of deliberately causing the crash and pointed to Shim's texts with the coach as proof. Both fell down and crashed into the wall. In the women's 1,000m final at the PyeongChang 2018, Shim and Choi got tangled up as Choi tried to make a pass on the outside over the final stretch. In the same text chain with her coach, Shim also hinted she would try to trip up a teammate, Choi Min-jeong, if they ended up in the same race. We only determined the length of the penalty based on her actions.Ī source close to Shim said Tuesday the skater will consider "all options available" in response to the ruling, including filing for a court injunction or appealing with the KSOC. "We didn't necessarily consider her status for the Olympics. "We were left with little choice but to penalize her," Kim said. Kim acknowledged Shim was being punished for having her personal messages leaked in media, but he and the rest of the committee focused only on the fact that those messages had entered the public discourse and Shim herself had acknowledged her wrongdoing. Kim Seong-cheol, head of the KSU's disciplinary committee, said Shim had "caused damage to the dignity of sport" with her actions. Shim didn't respond when asked whether she would apologize to the national team. Shim attended the hearing but had few words for the media before entering the KSU building, only saying she would "state facts and cooperate with the proceedings in good faith." The deadline to submit the Olympic short track entry is Jan. The KSOC's next disciplinary meeting is scheduled for Jan.
Shim, who has won a relay gold medal at each of the past two Olympics, will be in a time crunch. 4, the two-month penalty will make the 24-year-old Shim ineligible unless she can get the ban reduced via a court injunction or an appeal with the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee. With the Beijing Winter Olympics scheduled to open on Feb.
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Their text messages, leaked to the media in October, were included in an argument submitted by legal representatives for Cho Jae-beom, another ex-national team coach then under trial for alleged sexual and physical assault of Shim. The Korea Skating Union held a disciplinary meeting Tuesday at its Seoul headquarters to hand down the punishment on Shim, who denigrated members of the South Korean team in expletive-laden text exchanges with a national team coach during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games. Two-time Olympic short track speed skating champion Shim Suk-hee was slapped with a two-month ban for disparaging coaches and teammates Tuesday, a decision that, barring a successful appeal, will keep her out of the Beijing Winter Games in February.
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