High possibility of China national team
Charged with forced harassment
Law, fine for 1 trial and innocence for 2 trials
Supreme Court ruling remains
The first wounded on the Chinese border
[천지일보=원민음 기자] Lim Hyo-jun (25), a short track gold medalist at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, announced that he will be naturalized to China. As a result, it is highly likely that Hyo-jun Lim will join the Chinese national team at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
On the 6th, Brion Company, the agency of Lim Hyo-jun, issued a statement of admission and informed Lim Hyo-jun’s decision to naturalize China. Brion Company explained the reason for your choice that it was due to the difficulties and regrets that Im Hyo-jun couldn’t continue his life as a player at a time when Hyo-jun Lim is still playing a long time.
He then explained that Hyo-jun Lim had a difficult time due to the sexual harassment case, and that he spent two years not working with his team and the national team at all.
Lim Hyo-jun, who was active as an ace for the Korean short track team, was born in 1996 and was born in Daegu. After passing Gyeseong Elementary School and Kyungshin Middle School in Daegu, he graduated from Oryun Middle School and Northeast High School in Seoul, and entered Korea Sports University. He won the gold medal at the men’s 1500m short track at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and the bronze medal at the 500m.
However, Lim Hyo-jun exposed part of his body in front of other players by pulling the pants of a junior male athlete during rock climbing training in Jincheon Athlete’s Village in June 2019. The male athlete reported Lim Hyo-jun as sexual harassment to the athlete’s village and the Korea Sports Association.
Accordingly, the Ice Skating Federation imposed a one-year suspension of qualifications on Lim Hyo-jun. Disciplinary action was finalized when the request for reconsideration filed with the Sports Fair Committee of the Korean Sports Association was dismissed.
In November 2019, Lim Hyo-jun filed a lawsuit against the Ice Skating Federation in a temporary injunction request and disciplinary invalidation confirmation to the court.
The court sentenced Im Hyo-jun, who was accused of forced harassment, to a fine in the first trial in May 2020, but was acquitted in the second trial in November of the same year.
At the time, the Appeals Tribunal explained that “the victim slammed the female athlete’s ass on the rock wall with a fist, and the female athlete responded to the joke.” .
He added, “It is suspicious that the victim objectively raises sexual shame or disgust over the act of pulling the shorts, separate from the joke that the victim attempted to the female athlete, and contradicts the good moral notion.”
The Appeals Tribunal judged that “the defendant saw the victim playing with a female athlete, and it seems that the shorts were pulled out of similar motives, but the behavior seems insufficient to admit sexual desire, sexual purpose, and harassment intentions.”
Lim Hyo-jun is currently awaiting the Supreme Court ruling.
Meanwhile, with Lim Hyo-jun’s naturalization to China, the Chinese short track team is predicted to be the number one target of the Korean short track team. Coach Kim Sun-tae, who was in charge of the Korean short-track national team at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, is currently in charge of the Chinese national team. As a coach, there is Viktor An, a Russian national who was a star of Korean short track.
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