Find me another sport in the world where you can have referees who come from regions close to one of the countries in action.
This was the most ludicrous thing said by the Italian fencing people because if your sport is something done in multiple countries, then there are always going to be judges/referees/officials who are from your country or nearby countries.
But we know what he's really saying: it's okay if a European competition has judges from Europe. It's only suspicious and shady when POC are involved.
I was curious about the other referees so I did a little googling and found this info:
The gold medal match was refereed by Huang Hao-Chih from Taipei, with Suh Sangwon of South Korea acting as the video referee. Ayoub Ferjani from Tunisia and Vilem Madr from the Czech Republic served as assistant referees. These four judges had previously refereed Macchi's 15-11 semi-final win against U.S. fencer Nick Itkin, albeit with Ferjani and Huang acting as referee and video referee respectively.
Macchi's quarter-final win against Egypt's Mohamed Hamza was also overseen by Madr and Tim Claus Bardenhagen, whose respective home countries of the Czech Republic and Germany are notably closer to Italy than Egypt.
The IFF did not raise any objection to the choice of referees in either of these previous matches.
Also I feel like the assumption that judges from regions close to the athletes would automatically be in their favor is???? History is full of conflict between neighboring countries. But racists are idiots and can only focus on being racist, so illogical reasoning is not a surprise. Rocks for brains. What losers.
This was the most ludicrous thing said by the Italian fencing people because if your sport is something done in multiple countries, then there are always going to be judges/referees/officials who are from your country or nearby countries.
But we know what he's really saying: it's okay if a European competition has judges from Europe. It's only suspicious and shady when POC are involved.
I was curious about the other referees so I did a little googling and found this info:
The gold medal match was refereed by Huang Hao-Chih from Taipei, with Suh Sangwon of South Korea acting as the video referee. Ayoub Ferjani from Tunisia and Vilem Madr from the Czech Republic served as assistant referees. These four judges had previously refereed Macchi's 15-11 semi-final win against U.S. fencer Nick Itkin, albeit with Ferjani and Huang acting as referee and video referee respectively.
Macchi's quarter-final win against Egypt's Mohamed Hamza was also overseen by Madr and Tim Claus Bardenhagen, whose respective home countries of the Czech Republic and Germany are notably closer to Italy than Egypt.
The IFF did not raise any objection to the choice of referees in either of these previous matches.
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