Corruption Practice In Sports

In 2012 London Olympic, a fencing player got stolen her medal because of judges’ wrong decision. In Quater-Final of woman’s epee(fencing), Sin A-ram, who is a Korean fencing player seized the chance to victory from German player, Heidegger, and she got advantage that if she defend opponent’s attack for one minute, or made attack at same time, she could go final. She defended for 56 seconds, and there’re only 4 seconds left. In 4 seconds, there was fierce battle, and time’s over, Sin A-ram took off her mask and audience yelled out a cheer. However, referee reversed a decision, and gave Heidegger one second back, but it was too short to make attack. The game was restarted, and at that time, timer didn't work. Although the time more than one second passed, one second in timer didn’t end, and Heidegger made attack 1.57 seconds later and referee acknowledged that. So Sin A-ram was deprived of her right to go final, and she also

Corruption practice like match fixing in sports is increasing these days. Participants of sports gambling offer to referees to fix the match in the way they want. In K-League, for example, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors football club’s scouters asked referees to fix the match, so that Jeonbuk Hyundai would win. It was uncovered, and Jeonbuk Hyundai and referees were punished by law. However, the punishment was light. According to The Korea Professional Football League, penal servitude for 6 months was given to referees, and a fine of 100 million won and cutback 9 points was given to Jeonbuk Hyundai as punishment. Many fans argued that the punishment had to be intensified. Corruption practice in the sports is great disgrace. It damages to the pure essence of sports. Corruption practice like match fixing must be vanished in the sports. Corruption practice will not be vanished if we give these light punishment to them. Heavy punishment can be one of the prevention of it. Sports leagues should be