"Elementary school students are faster than this."
Yoon Yeo-chun, a familiar commentator for 'Idol Star Athletics Championships,' expressed his frustration while commentating on the men's college division 3000m steeplechase final at the National Athletics Championships.
On the 21st, during the men's college division 3000m steeplechase final of the 54th National Athletics Championships held in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Yoon expressed his anger over the athletes' lackluster performance, saying, "I will not commentate on this race."
He evaluated it as "a performance worse than elementary school students" and expressed strong concerns about the athletes' declining performance. He noted, "Continuing to commentate while witnessing such performance is disrespectful to the viewers."
During the race, athletes did not run as fast as they could but instead ran slowly to match the speed of other competitors. This reflected a focus on rankings rather than records. In fact, the time of the athlete who placed first was 10 minutes and 16 seconds and 56 hundredths, which is significantly behind the winning time of 9 minutes and 40 seconds and 90 hundredths in the men's high school division.
Yoon pointed out, "It’s really upsetting. Even elementary school students run faster than this. This is the reality of college athletics in our country. Showing such performances to the public and the audience is an embarrassing representation of us athletes."
In response, netizens expressed their outrage, saying things like, "The reality of elite sports is that after graduation, there are only thoughts of making money while coaching," "This is a problem for the entire Korean athletics scene," "Are they jogging?" and "I completely sympathize with the commentator's critique a hundred times over."
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