From: wung@puttgen.ee.gatech.edu (Peter Wung)
Subject: Re: US/Japan volleyball protest
Reply-To: wung@puttgen.ee.gatech.edu
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:11:25 GMT

In article 18863@athena.mit.edu, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.133916.21471@oakhill.sps.mot.com>, millerm@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Mikemoe) writes:
>|> As soon as someone finds out the results of the
>|> Japanese protest of yesterday's match, please
>|> post it.
>|> 
>|> 
>|> FYI...my understanding of the protest is due
>|> to possible referee error. Allegedly, the ref
>|> should have ejected a USA player, instead of
>|> giving him another (his 2nd) warning for yelling
>|> at a ref. This ejection would also have awarded
>|> Japan with another point...that point would
>|> have given the 4th game (and match) to Japan.
>|> Instead, USA turns it around and wins 4th and 5th
>|> games for the match.
>
>Lets clarify this.
>A) Just before and just after this bad call the ref made two poor calls both
>of which were shown incorrect by video tape. Unfortnately they were of the
>judgement variety so they can't be protested. Clearly the refs were confused
>when the incident occured.
>
Nope, I just saw the replay of the match.  IMHO, the two bad calls were after the 
Samuelson yellow card.  1)  They called Timmons over the 10 m line on a clean 
D set from Briscenzo.  2) The up ref miss called the ball out on a block when the 
linesman called it in.  In addition, there was another bad call when the Japanese
thought that they had won the match and quit playing.  The call should have been 
a side out to the US.  Also, after game point on the fourth game Timmons visited the 
Japanese side after the ball was down; strictly speaking, anytime a player pulls on
the net or taunts the opponent, that is a red card offense, but the refs didn't 
call it because the game was over.

>B) The Japanese did not protest the incident at the time it occured, and
>occording to Olympic rules it was too late afterwards.
>
>C) Neither the United States player nor the Score keeper were informed of the
>yellow card. This is where the actual error occured. Again, this was the refs
>error and most likely occured because he was royally fowling up the game at the
>time and because he knew it. I should note that as in most sports the refs are
>less likely to give a red card to a player with a yellow than a yellow to
>another player especially when that would end the match. The ref was un-aware of
>this. If he had been, it is unlikely his judgement would have been the same.
>
>D) I just saw the statement from the head of the US Volleyball association (or
>whatever you call it) which in effect says that we're not going to complain about
>awarding the game to Japan because we'll make the playoffs anyway and they might
>not. THIS IS BULLSHIT. If I were a US player and found out the my coaches had
>allowed the game to be taken from us, my morale would go downhill so fast that
>I'd never be able to play well again.
>
>Jason W. Solinsky



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