The guy in the gee is not, repeat NOT, fighting the guy in street clothes...
And this is not, repeat NOT, an example of white-collar crime...
The sport is taekwondo and the gentleman on the left is Angel Valodia Matos((pictured, thanks AFP/Getty Images/Jung Yeon-Je)) of Cuba.
The referee is the gentleman on the right and he is receiving, what Hall of Fame announcer Gordon Solie would refer to as a front kick, to his front.
The referee, Chakir Chelbat of Sweden, decided that Matos was taking his own sweet time during an injury treatment. Matos was disqualified giving his opponent, Kazakhstan's Arman Chilmanov, the bronze medal.
The Cuban federation has intimated that the Swedish official was on the take for the match. In return, the World Taekwondo Federation has started the process of banning both Matos and his coach for life.
OSG outsiders, reading over our shoulders as we type and submit the story from the road, suggest that Chelbat would have one hell of a lawsuit. Those of us at OSG concur, but wish the exchange rate from Cuban peso to a not-so-worthless currency was better than two chickens to the penny.
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