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Non-disabled judo athletes who acted as the national team for the disabled while hiding their normal eyesight and the national team coach who led the corruption were sentenced to suspended imprisonment and fines.



Detective 12 of the Seoul Southern District Court (Judge Lee Jin-woong) sentenced former blind judo national team coach A to two years in prison and three years of probation, who was charged with obstruction of business and violating the subsidy management law.



Of the 13 judo athletes who were also brought to trial, 8 were sentenced to fines and 3 to suspended sentences of imprisonment, and the remaining 2 were acquitted due to lack of evidence.



Coach A is accused of having players deceive a doctor and receive a diagnosis from 2015 to 2018, and then select them as the blind judo national team player and participate in various international competitions.



It is known that coach A took advantage of the fact that athletes who have not received a blindness rating since 2015 can register as blind judo athletes, and an ophthalmologist issued a medical record that meets the international visual impairment sports rating. .

those players were holding the mobile arm of the director Mr. a in the hospital according to the instructions on the directors 'invisible' to the doctor in charge of diagnosing and issued a certificate of visual acuity of 0.1 or less as a technique of lying was investigated.





Afterwards, the players won excellent results in international competitions such as the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games and the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games for the Paralympic, and received government bounties ranging from 1.3 million won to 42 million won each. It was revealed that he received 15.46 million won unfairly.



In response, the court pointed out, "Fair competition is not only the basis for our social community to be maintained, but also the basic spirit of sports."



In particular, "Mr. A has greatly damaged the fairness of sports for the disabled by forgetting his duties and responsibilities and encouraging young players to undermine the fairness of player selection," he said. Acts such as guiding them deserve great criticism as a leader.”



However, he said, "Mr. A later admitted all of his mistakes, and he was arrested and detained for about six months in this case." explained.



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