In this week’s current event, I will discuss how people’s bad spontaneous decisions can eventually come back to haunt them and be something they will regret. This past week an American figure skater was accused of bullying and purposely cutting a South Korean skater during warm-ups at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama, Japan. The figure skater, Mariah Bell, allegedly kicked competitor Lim Eun-soo during warm-ups before the women’s short program competition according to the claims made by the Korean skater’s management agency. An official for All That Sports, Lim’s management agency, exclaimed how “slowly skating on the edge of the rink after completing her turn” Bell, who was scheduled to warm-up after her, “suddenly kicked and stabbed Lim’s calf with her skate blades.” Bell, being observed purposely not apologizing, was accused of doing the action on purpose. The investigation is still being prosecuted to see if bell truly is guilty or not. While Lin was cut she was able to receive medical treatment, and still was able to compete in the competition.
This can be closely related to the Nancy Kerrigan- Tonya Harding scandal in where Harding was accused of clubbing Kerrigan in the back of the leg moments before the figure skating competition.
This is one of those cases that never seems to truly have an answer because when revolving around potential sabotage a case can go either way, as you can never be one hundred percent sure whether the culprit or victim is lying or not. This makes matters even more frightening, as the possibility for the wrong person to face repercussions is conceivable.
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