SEOUL, 컬링 -- The "Garlic Girls, micron South Korea's hugely well-known Olympic silver medalist curlers, accused their coaches Wed of ruining the team together with abusive treatment around a dispute that possesses spoiled one of the particular year's feel-good sports stories.

Typically the women's allegations suggest a familiar tale of neglect, crime and nepotism the fact that has frequently marred South Korea's very hierarchical top notch sports picture. Men generally run Southern area Korean sports entertainment efforts, together with while this curling team's head discipline is a lady, adult males in her family -- including her pops, some sort of former leading figure inside Southern region Korean curling -- participate in a notable portion inside the team's accusations involving abuse.

"We can not any longer work with a good coaching staff that is trying to split this team, " Kim Seon-yeong said in a glum announcement seminar in Seoul. The players also accused this coaching staff of bypassing training sessions, positioning back treasure money and even trying to push some sort of married participant over crew.

"We need a training staff that can teach together with lead us effectively. We wish to continue our curling professions and aim intended for bigger targets in typically the Beijing Olympics, " Kim said.

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Often the news seminar got a good day after South Korea's Sports Ministry and State Olympic Committee announced a new combined exploration into allegations the fact that grew to become public following the runners sent the letter outlining their problems to athletics authorities last week.

The five-member can certainly curling team evolved into a overnight discomfort after the improbable silver-medal jog in February's Winter Olympics throughout Pyeongchang, South Korea. Often the team participants enthralled a rustic that barely recognized styling in advance of they made their own run, and they evolved into sought-after spokeswomen in advertising. Their very own nickname is a good nod on the famous garlic cloves produced in their particular home team in Uiseong, within southeast South Korea, in which they met and begun playing together as teens.

Found in their letter to the Korean language Sport and Olympic Committee last week, Kim Eun-jung, Ellie Seon-yeong, .k Cho-hee, together with sisters Kim Yeong-ae in addition to Kim Yeong-mi accused ex - Korean Curling Federation vice president Kim Kyung-doo of spoken abuse and even team instructors of supplying unreasonable instructions and disclosing their lifestyles to excessive control. Inside Thursday's news conference, the particular curlers claimed coaches advised them in what to say in interviews and closely watched their private lives after training hours, scolding all of them if they found with sportsmen from rival teams. Text letters and presents sent out by simply fans "were already attractive open" prior to these people attained the curlers, Ellie Seon-yeong said.

"We cannot understand why the head instructor had to tear open and check the shows and letters sent to people before they get to this sportsperson, " your woman said.

The curlers stated the coaches withheld reward money and tried to help sideline this married chief Kim Eun-jung after learning of the woman plans to start a new loved ones. These people said the coaches furthermore tried to force Kim Cho-hee off the workforce ahead of the Olympics to open a position for scalp coach Ellie Min-jung to participate while an sportsperson; in addition they claimed they had to put up with some sort of tirade from Ellie Kyung-doo after they chose to keep with their teammate.

Kim Kyung-doo and their family had extensive manage over the team together with his daughter, Kim Min-jung, being the top coach and even his son-in-law, Jang Ban-seok, the mixed increases mentor. The curlers arranged typically the news conference after often the teaching staff widely denied the particular accusations.

"We acquired thought we could proceed together with that family members, but after going by the Olympics, this grew to be very clear to us they were a friends and family of which cared just about themselves, very well Kim Eun-jung said at the news meeting. "They don't want typically the sports athletes to raise and obtain greater.... They don't want typically the players to become even bigger than this company. "

Jang denied resources were withheld from the sportsmen, thinking the team had concluded prize money would possibly be spent on overseas training and competitions, but Kim Eun-jung stated the curlers were held in the black about how the money was used.

"We were by now having (state) training funds because users of the national workforce, and all of us couldn't know why this prize cash was not becoming distributed to people, micron she said.