20.08.2016, 13:29
Evan Dunfees Kommentar zur zurückgenommenen Disqualifikation des Japaners Arai, die ihn die Bronzemedaille kostete, und warum er nicht dagegen protestiert hat. Hut ab
Zitat:“Following my return to the village and my viewing of the incident I made the decision not to appeal, as I believe the right decision stood,” Dunfee said in his statement.“Not many people can understand the pain athletes are in three and a half hours into such a gruelling race. I believe that both the Japanese athlete and myself got tangled up, but what broke me was that I let it put me off mentally and once I lost that focus, my legs went to jello,” he said.The fateful bump came as Arai attempted to pass Dunfee on the inside. It looked like the Canadian might have initiated the contact with his left arm, but Arai did walk into the collision.“Contact is part of our event, whether written or unwritten and is quite common, and I don’t believe that this was malicious or done with intent,” Dunfee said, in one of the more thoroughly gracious statements from a losing athlete in recent memory. “Even if an appeal to CAS were successful, I would not have been able to receive that medal with a clear conscience and it isn’t something I would have been proud of.”Quelle
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