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Rivalry of an epic stature
HIROSHIMA. Oct 15: National pride and history are all wrapped up in the fight between Japan and South Korea to finish second at the Asian Games behind run-away leader China, reports Reuter.
Winning a gold is always great but for these two bitter rivals, beating the other in a final is even'sweeter.
The latest face-to-face gold clashes were on the Judo mats where South Koreans won three golds to Japan’s one on Friday, and on the baseball diamond where Japan hung on to win the gold 6-5.
With two days of competition left. South Korea has edged ahead with 57 golds to Japan’s 52. far behind China’s 127.
Korea was a Japanese colony, until, the end- of World War TWo and bitter feelings linger with disputes over
Japanese history books which deny Japanese atrocities, the role of the Japanese government in forcing Korean women into prostitution during the war and the fate of- the descendants of Koreans brought to Japan as slave labour In the war.
Many of them say they are discriminated against in Japan and at some of the events their cheering for South Koreans was much louder than the support Japanese teams got.
South Korea has come out ‘ ahead in soccer and men’s and women's basketball. . while Japan has fought back in karate and baseball.
They are even fighting in minor sporty such as handball, where South Korea beat Japan in both the men's and women's finals, and women's waterpolo where Japan won.
The issue has been re-
ported in Japanese press with a Kyodo news agency story saying the gold race should be ignored because "it arouses national sentiments".
. Japan, as the host country, hid the advantage this time of setting schedules and revising rules.
As an example, takewondo is South Korea's national martial art and becomes an official Olympic sport in the 2000 Sydney Games. They would have been heavily favoured in all eight divisions except Japanese organisers ruled each Country could only enter four weight classes.
The result was four South Korean golds and four missed opportunities.
And the Japanese made sure their campaign got off on a positive note by making karate the first -sport to have medals awarded.
A Japanese athjete just happened to be the favourite.
Traditionally, the marathon is the last event at a Games like this with the winner completing his last lap in a packed stadium shortly' before the closing ceremony. '
Here, the marathon kicked off the second week.
The explanation was organisers wanted it to end at the peace memorial honouring those who died from the atomic blast that levelled the city in August 1945.
Conspiracy theorists say the real reason was that organisers did not want the South Korean favourite Hwang Young-Jo. who won the race, to end the Games on a South Korean high note instead Japan placed high hop«?B on their soccer team and made the soccer final the last event in the stadium.
That plan got derailed when Japan lost on an injury-time penalty shot, guess who to, in the quarterfinals.
There was a Japanese sigh of relief when South Korea was I hen upset in the semi-finals by । izbekistan.
The soccer fight Is doubly important because the two countries are also competing' to become the first Asian country to host the World Cup in 2002. Japan was always the top gold meal winner until the ninth Games in New Delhi in 1982 when China edged them into second with South Kqrea third.
Four years later in Seoul, the Koreans moved up to second with 93 golds, one behind China, to Japan's 58.
In 1990 in Beijing it was China with 183 golds. South Korea with 54 and Japan with 38.