The loss of life of a 17-year-old badminton participant has sparked outrage amid claims that officers didn’t act rapidly sufficient when Chinese language athlete Zhang Zhijie collapsed through the 2024 Asia Junior Championship match in Indonesia on Sunday.
Zhang was enjoying a match towards Japan’s Kazuma Kawano when he fell to the bottom and started convulsing, as captured in a graphic video circulating on-line.
The footage exhibits officers watching the badminton star as he seems to have a seizure for round 40 seconds earlier than medics lastly rush in to help him.
Within the video, medical assist didn’t seem to manage CPR or use a defibrillator on the fallen athlete, however medics did swiftly put him on a stretcher to take him to an ambulance on standby.
In response to officers for the Badminton Affiliation of Indonesia who spoke to the BBC, Zhang was taken to 2 separate hospitals earlier than he was discovered to have died of sudden cardiac arrest.
Addressing the delays on the match, an official from Indonesia’s badminton affiliation informed the BBC that the match’s medical groups have been following “a rule where they needed the referee’s permission before entering the court.”
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The foundations behind the obvious delay prompted outrage on the Chinese language social media platform Weibo, based on the BBC, which quoted a number of distressed posts.
One publish, which obtained hundreds of likes, requested, “Which is more important – the rules or someone’s life?”
“Did they miss the ‘golden period’ to rescue him?” learn one other remark, based on the outlet.
In response to the backlash, a spokesperson for Indonesia’s badminton affiliation stated it could be asking the game’s governing physique, the Badminton World Federation, to reevaluate the rule requiring referee permission to strategy the courtroom in order that it’s “more situational, for actions to be taken more quickly so that athletes can be saved if there is a similar case in the future.”
In a separate assertion on X, previously Twitter, Badminton Asia expressed its “deepest condolences to Zhang’s parents, family and Chinese badminton association” and wrote that “the world of badminton has lost a talented player.”
Badminton gamers and officers on the match held a minute of silence in Zhang’s honor on Monday, as seen in a publish on X by the Badminton Affiliation of Malaysia.
