Go: The live broadcast queen launched a gorgeous rebellion against the dog

"...No?! Did I hear it right?"

At the same time, at the Muhu Go Dojo in Dongjiang City.

Lei Jingming, who was watching chess with two old friends again today, was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets after listening to the second half of the female spokesperson's speech:
"'Women are very likely to have a clear physiological advantage over men in the Asian Games Go competition'...

“Is this something a normal human being can say???!

"Why is the Olympic Council of Asia so shameless following the Koreans?"

"Don't worry, don't worry!"

Although his face was also full of surprise, Yu Qingguang, who was a little calmer, quickly signaled Lei Jingming to stop making a fuss.

"Maybe the female spokesperson made a mistake or the translator made a mistake..."

However, before Qingguang finished speaking, Li Wangyuan squinted his eyes and shook his head:
"…At least it's definitely not a translation error!
"Look at the media reporters at the scene. They are arguing all of a sudden!"

Just as Lao Li Baduan said, after a brief two seconds of silence, the media reporters present seemed to finally react to what the female spokesperson had said, and the scene instantly exploded like cold water being poured on a frying pan!

Almost everyone was discussing the female spokesperson's shocking speech. Amid the noise, a courageous Southeast Asian male reporter whistled and asked loudly in English:
“Hey! Ms. Spokesperson!
"So according to what you said, male athletes can participate in women's competitions?! After all, you all believe that 'women are very likely to have obvious physiological advantages over men'!"

As soon as this question was asked, there was another round of laughter and even applause - any media with a little common sense would know how outrageous it is to say that "female athletes have obvious physiological advantages over male athletes" in competitive events.

However, just when everyone was waiting to see the female spokesperson make a fool of herself, she seemed extremely calm. She shrugged her shoulders and said without changing her expression or shaking her voice:

"Ah, I knew that some media friends would have questions about this. I will just answer this question directly!

"Objectively speaking, whether male Go players can be allowed to participate in women's competitions is not something we can decide alone - just like in track and field and swimming, although we believe that female athletes participating in men's events does not undermine fairness, the IAAF and FINA still prohibit transgender participation.

"I can only say that although it is very counterintuitive, after going through this hearing, at least from the perspective of physiological fairness, we can only believe that there is no problem for men to participate in the women's competition under the Asian Games system..."

"no!
“Are the Olympic Council of Asia crazy?!!!!”

Before the female spokesperson could finish her words, Yu Qingguang, who confirmed that it was definitely not the spokesperson of the Olympic Council of Asia who made the mistake, was even more hysterical than Lao Lei Jiudan just now:

“What’s wrong with men competing in women’s competitions?!

"If you still have eyes and brains left, you can't say such stupid things?!!"

Just like head coach Yu’s reaction, everyone at the scene went completely crazy after hearing this.

Everyone who was waiting to see the female spokesperson laugh at her was in disbelief - someone actually dared to say something so outrageous! There was an uproar.

However, the female spokesperson was well prepared at this time. She did not give the restless media any chance to interrupt and continued speaking directly:
“Of course, I know that our recent announcement and opinions will definitely cause widespread controversy and doubts in the public opinion.

“But after internal discussions within the arbitration committee, we decided that you could first watch the video of the hearing that we had edited. Of course, we had shown this video to the representatives of both parties in advance, and they had confirmed that there was no malicious editing and that it truthfully reflected the situation at the hearing.

“I believe that this video recording of the hearing can answer most of the questions that everyone here has.”

After that, the female spokesperson pressed the remote control, and the big screen at the press conference began to play the video that the Council had prepared long ago - judging from the scene, it was exactly the moment when the on-site host of the hearing announced the start of the hearing.

The Council was also thoughtful enough to provide subtitles in English, Chinese and Korean for the hearing video, showing that they were clearly well prepared.

Seeing the situation develop in this way, the reporters present suddenly quieted down and began to focus their attention on the hearing video on the big screen.

The three old friends in the office looked at each other, and Li Wangyuan asked first:
"That……

"Are we going to watch the game or the hearing video next?"

“Of course it’s this video!
"Haven't you seen enough of Rui Zhao and my son bullying others?"

Lei Jingming helped the other two to make the decision without hesitation:

“Although my son and Rui Zhao have secured their gold medals, I don’t know when this kind of excitement will happen again!
"I want to see what these Koreans are up to!"

...

...

"...I hope you can understand this! Thank you!" "Well...

"Did Vice Chairman Lu say anything wrong?!"

Fifteen minutes later, at the training base of the Jianghan team of the Weiqi League.

As Lu Wenjie's lengthy rebuttal at the opening of the hearing ended, Cheng Yuyang, who was also watching the press conference live, couldn't help but mutter:
"I have said everything that needs to be said. It fully demonstrates that Go is inherently male-dominated, and highlights a well-founded reason...

"It seems that I have wronged the association?"

Originally, according to Cheng Yuyang's idea, Rui Zhao's winning of two extremely valuable Asian Games gold medals would be a great achievement in the history of Chinese and even world sports. However, the result of winning the gold medal despite a huge gender disadvantage was questioned because South Korea took advantage of the situation.

And now, although Rui Zhao has secured two gold medals in this Asian Games, due to the ban, Rui Zhao has lost the qualification to participate in the two men's events in the next Qatar Asian Games. This is an unexpected disaster!
The game with such a favorable situation was a loss of sovereignty and a humiliation to the country. The chess association that attended the hearing cannot escape blame!

Originally filled with righteous indignation, Cheng Yuyang had planned to see how outrageous the two leaders at the hearing were so that he could go online and criticize them anonymously. But seeing this, Cheng Yuyang really didn't think there was anything wrong.

But this made Cheng Yuyang even more confused:

The words have been made so clear... How could the Olympic Council of Asia have the nerve to release the video of this hearing? !
Want to let the whole world see how you blindly arbitrate with your eyes open? !

However, just as Cheng Yuyang was muttering, at the host's instruction, the South Korean representative Song Zhitai began his performance:

“…Thank you, host!

“First of all, I must admit one thing: that is, there is nothing wrong with most of what the Huaxia representative just said.

"As the representative of Huaxia said just now - if we only look at the history of Go from its birth to the present, it is probably not an exaggeration to say that 'since the birth of Go, men have always been better than women'.

“…But, as one of your country’s great writers famously said:
"'It has always been this way, is it right?'"

Hearing this very familiar and equally powerful sentence, Cheng Yuyang couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Gou, Shang and Lu in the picture had almost the same reaction.

Being refuted by a foreigner using a famous quote from a country's celebrity does make people feel subconsciously frustrated.

However, Song Zhitai did not linger here for long. After asking a question, he immediately began his subsequent discussion:
"First, we must clarify the scope. This Asian Games is a rapid chess competition. All our discussions should be based on the rapid chess competition system. I believe everyone has no objection, right?"

Song Zhitaizhong in the picture seemed calm and composed, as if he was taking the matter lightly, and he laid a small groundwork for his subsequent remarks.

After hearing this, Gou, Shang, and Lu from China exchanged glances and said nothing, which was considered as their agreement.

——Although the three of them knew that every word the other party said must have its purpose, in this kind of hearing, if they were to make unreasonable arguments when the other party was obviously right, it would only lose their good impression. They had to wait until the critical moment to make an effort.

Seeing that neither the members of the arbitration committee nor the Chinese representatives expressed any objection, Song Zhitai continued:

"...Okay. Let's get back to what we were talking about.

“In fact, although the facts just listed by the Huaxia representative are correct, they do not explain the problem at all.

“Just as we cannot conclude that steam locomotives are inferior to horse-drawn carriages because the technical conditions of the early steam locomotives were immature and the speed was slow, it is obviously unfair to arbitrarily judge that female chess players are inferior to male chess players as a whole simply because of the poor historical performance of female chess players in the old times.

"Although there has been a gap between the performance of female players and that of male players in history, the root cause is that the constraints of the traditional social division of labor and the stereotypes of female players in the Go community have greatly limited their opportunities to tap their potential. In addition, the lack of a systematic training mechanism and insufficient experience in high-level competitions ultimately led to their relatively lagging competitive performance."

"This statement is absolutely ridiculous!"

As soon as Song Zhitai finished speaking, Lu Wenjie took over the conversation and said:
"According to this argument, any sport can use this as an excuse to argue that 'female athletes have stronger talents than male athletes, but they are suppressed and their talents are not reflected'!

"Anyway, the constraints of traditional social division of labor and the stereotypes against female athletes in the sports world are objectively universal - we can even say that they exist in almost all sports!"

After Lu Wenjie finished speaking, all the arbitration committee members in the video nodded.

This kind of outdated political correctness will naturally not be recognized by professional sports officials in the Olympic Council of Asia.

However, Song Zhitai remained calm and composed, with a confident smile on his face, as if he was not surprised at all by Lu Wenjie's words:
"Well, the Huaxia representative is right - this argument cannot be simply and crudely applied to other projects."

“But, that’s because in other projects…

"...There is no such person as Rui Zhao." (End of this chapter)