Staff Kim's Canadian coach shells curlers' abuse claims
A Canadian coach who guided the particular South Korean women's curling team to a sterling silver honor at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics has reinforced the curlers' abuse claim.
Peter Gallant, who was initially a coach with the Southern area Korean curling crew of which is better known simply by its nickname Garlic Girls or Team Kim, claimed in a statement Thurs night that he stands "100 pct behind" the curlers who also declare irregular, unfair treatment by their head coach plus control.
The curling team, made of skip Ellie Eun-jung, lead Kim Yeong-mi, 2nd Kim Seon-yeong, next Ellie Kyeong-ae and prospect The reality star Cho-hee, recently delivered the letter to this Korean Sports and Olympic Panel claiming that often the sportsmen have been mistreated by means of their head discipline Kim Min-jung; her husband, Jang Ban-seok; and the father, Kim Kyung-doo.
Ellie Kyung-doo is a previous bassesse president at the particular Korean Curling Federation who also built the particular country's very first curling-only stadium in Uiseong, North Gyeongsang Province, also the home town of the Team Kim curlers. Jang was head trainer to get South Korea's combined being different team at the PyeongChang Olympics. With Kim Min-jung, the two were regarded huge contributors to Workforce Kim's success.
컬링 , which still left Team Kim following the Olympics, said he / she is very proud of the team's success within the PyeongChang Olympics, but this individual in addition acknowledged there were being "unnecessary roadblocks" in regards to Kim Min-jung and her family.
"There had been quite a few troubles along that route, and many of them appeared to me to be pointless hurdles as a outcome of the actions of often the team's management, plus the continuing conflict between the team's management and the Korean Being different Federation, " Gallant claimed. "I realize typically the relationship offers deteriorated between the team and the management. "
Gallant said this individual found out that "things were not really going properly, very well when he joined in Kim Eun-jung's wedding inside July, nevertheless he did not realize how bad it was.
Gallant stated they was as well treated badly by the management, citing conversation to financial troubles.
"Getting paid was always a huge concern, " he stated. "Frequently, I was not paid promptly. "
Whenever it comes to communication, Gallant said decisions on a variety of issues always were produced at the quite last minute.
"It was to be able to plan anything due to the last-minute activities and management's incapability to help either schedule correctly or to communicate the plan. "
Like the curlers, Gallant claimed that The reality star Min-jung lacked experience together with was not a big support to the team "She claimed to be 'head coach' and had for you to be in all of the pics, yet her knowledge inside curling was listed below that of the athletes, very well he said. "Even though My partner and i was hired to train the team, (Kim Min-jung) desired to set the practice plan regardless of precisely what I felt was initially desired. "
After the PyeongChang Olympics, Team Kim did not win the national staff trial in August regarding the 2018-19 season. The particular curlers said that these people had little time to train, whilst the management tried to exclude skip Kim Eun-jung from the team after the lady got married in July.
"It is extremely disappointing that one in the top women's curling squads in the world can be not playing, " he said. "These girls have got not even arrived at his or her prime yet.... Their entire world ranking is dropping, and it will be costly and challenging to get to the top tier of being different. This is such the shame. "
Peter Gallant, who was initially a coach with the Southern area Korean curling crew of which is better known simply by its nickname Garlic Girls or Team Kim, claimed in a statement Thurs night that he stands "100 pct behind" the curlers who also declare irregular, unfair treatment by their head coach plus control.
The curling team, made of skip Ellie Eun-jung, lead Kim Yeong-mi, 2nd Kim Seon-yeong, next Ellie Kyeong-ae and prospect The reality star Cho-hee, recently delivered the letter to this Korean Sports and Olympic Panel claiming that often the sportsmen have been mistreated by means of their head discipline Kim Min-jung; her husband, Jang Ban-seok; and the father, Kim Kyung-doo.
Ellie Kyung-doo is a previous bassesse president at the particular Korean Curling Federation who also built the particular country's very first curling-only stadium in Uiseong, North Gyeongsang Province, also the home town of the Team Kim curlers. Jang was head trainer to get South Korea's combined being different team at the PyeongChang Olympics. With Kim Min-jung, the two were regarded huge contributors to Workforce Kim's success.
컬링 , which still left Team Kim following the Olympics, said he / she is very proud of the team's success within the PyeongChang Olympics, but this individual in addition acknowledged there were being "unnecessary roadblocks" in regards to Kim Min-jung and her family.
"There had been quite a few troubles along that route, and many of them appeared to me to be pointless hurdles as a outcome of the actions of often the team's management, plus the continuing conflict between the team's management and the Korean Being different Federation, " Gallant claimed. "I realize typically the relationship offers deteriorated between the team and the management. "
Gallant said this individual found out that "things were not really going properly, very well when he joined in Kim Eun-jung's wedding inside July, nevertheless he did not realize how bad it was.
Gallant stated they was as well treated badly by the management, citing conversation to financial troubles.
"Getting paid was always a huge concern, " he stated. "Frequently, I was not paid promptly. "
Whenever it comes to communication, Gallant said decisions on a variety of issues always were produced at the quite last minute.
"It was to be able to plan anything due to the last-minute activities and management's incapability to help either schedule correctly or to communicate the plan. "
Like the curlers, Gallant claimed that The reality star Min-jung lacked experience together with was not a big support to the team "She claimed to be 'head coach' and had for you to be in all of the pics, yet her knowledge inside curling was listed below that of the athletes, very well he said. "Even though My partner and i was hired to train the team, (Kim Min-jung) desired to set the practice plan regardless of precisely what I felt was initially desired. "
After the PyeongChang Olympics, Team Kim did not win the national staff trial in August regarding the 2018-19 season. The particular curlers said that these people had little time to train, whilst the management tried to exclude skip Kim Eun-jung from the team after the lady got married in July.
"It is extremely disappointing that one in the top women's curling squads in the world can be not playing, " he said. "These girls have got not even arrived at his or her prime yet.... Their entire world ranking is dropping, and it will be costly and challenging to get to the top tier of being different. This is such the shame. "
