Shin torment at ‘mistake’

The Korean Olympic Committee want the International Olympic Committee to investigate what led fencer Shin A Lam to spend more than an hour — much of it in tears — waiting to be told her dream of games gold was over on Monday.

Shin thought she was through to the final of the women’s epee, but the clock was then reset from zero to one second and she lost to German Britta Heidemann, then after long discussions while she remained on the piste she lost her bronze medal contest as well.

The International Fencing Federation — FIE — proposed giving the 25-year-old a special medal for “aspiration to win and respect for the rules”, but Shin, who competes in the team event tomorrow, was still not happy.