South Korean officials offer a public apology and vow to investigate the death of 22-year-old triathlete Choi Suk-hyeon, who reported to government and sports bodies that she had been abused her team coach, physical therapist and colleagues.
Park Yang-woo, right, minister of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, talks with Choi Yoon-hee, left, vice minister of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism during a parliamentary committee meeting at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 6, 2020.
Vice Sports Minister Choi Yoon-hee told the same meeting that a 20-member investigation team was launched last week to find why authorities didn’t properly respond to the athlete’s petitions and whether related sports supervisory or support bodies functioned over the case in an appropriate manner. Choi’s cause of death was ruled a suicide. State prosecutors are separately investigating the abuse allegations she made before her death, according to the Korean Sports & Olympic Committee.
Earlier Monday, two of her ex-teammates told reporters they and Choi had been beaten and suffered verbal and other abuses by their team’s coach, a physical therapist and senior teammates. One of them said she and Choi were once forced to eat 200,000 won worth of bread until dawn as a punishment for gaining weight.
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