Tokyo: Even in Paralympics games, there is controversy over victory and defeat.
Malaysian Putter Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli’s shot seemed to win gold in a shot in the F20 class.
But after a victory on Tuesday, he was disqualified because he had shown late for the competition.
Spokesman for the International Paralympics Committee Craig Spence said Zolkefli and the other two – who did not reach the podium – were allowed to compete with protests after they failed to appear on time for the event.
“They are late, they may have logical reasons for late, and therefore we allow them to compete and see the facts of the problem after,” Spence said.
The statement from the World of Athletics, which regulates the tracks and fields of the sports, said the referee has determined after the event that “there is no reason that can be justified for the athletes’ failure to report” on time.
It was said that an appeal was also rejected.
Disqualifications hit the Koval Maksym of Ukraine to gold, and Teammate Ukraine Oleksandr Yarovyi took silver.
Bronze went to Greece’s Nikolaidis Efstratios.
Spence said disqualification was filled with anger on social media.
He described it as “very rude.” Many of it targets Ukraine.
“We now see comments about all our social media posts that have nothing to do with men’s shots put the F20 event,” Spence said.
He said the Ukrainian Paralympic Committee “Get a lot of harassment from Malaysia.” “Sorry.
The rules are rules,” Spence said.
“The decision was taken.
It was not a Ukrainian mistake that Malaysians were late.” Spence said the three arrived three minutes late.
He said he didn’t see this as a hard penalty.
“The others get there five minutes early,” he said.
Spence said the reason given was that Malaysians and the other two said they were “did not hear the announcement or it in the language” they did not understand.
The F20 class in Put Shot is for athletes with intellectual flaws.
Associated Press tries to achieve a Malaysian delegation through an email address provided by IPC officials.
There was no direct response on Wednesday.
In early 2019, IPC disarmed Malaysia from the world swimming championships because they did not want to guarantee that Israeli athletes could compete.
Spence said the reaction was the same.
“The level of harassment is directed at the IPC then through the roof,” said Spence.
Malaysian shot putter was disqualified after winning a gold medal
