‘Bodily: 100‘ winner Woo Jin-yong has damaged his silence on claims of match-rigging within the ultimate recreation, through which he beat Olympic bike owner Jung Hae-min.
Since being topped the winner within the South Korean excessive survival present within the finale, which dropped on Netflix on Feb 21, the CrossFit athlete and the present’s producers have been beneath assault over allegations that the ultimate rope-pulling match was unfair.
Whereas broadcaster MBC and showrunner-producer Jang Ho-gi subsequently denied the allegations, Jung got here ahead final week to provide his model of the occasions.
In an interview with South Korean media outlet Ilyo, he stated the match was halted twice and the primary time was on request from Woo, who reportedly stated the gear was making quite a lot of noise.
Nonetheless, in a bid to clear his identify, Woo posted a screenshot of the manufacturing notes on Instagram final Saturday to make clear that he didn’t ask for the match to be stopped and pressured that it was a call by the manufacturing crew.
“As soon as the match was stopped, the manufacturing crew labored on each units of apparatus to minimise the noise,” the previous snowboarder wrote, including that they have been lubricated with WD-40 earlier than the match resumed.
“I performed that match by the principles and gave it my greatest. Sure, there have been interruptions to the match that have been utterly sudden to the manufacturing crew, contestant Jung Hae-min and myself – and so the match didn’t go as easily as we anticipated,” he stated.
“However the fact is that I by no means made any requests to win the match in an unfair method.”
Woo, who’s in his 30s, didn’t point out the second time that the match was reportedly halted and moved to a different location by the manufacturing crew, which Jung had revealed in his interview.
Jung claimed he had an enormous lead, however was completely spent by that point.
“The rumours on-line claimed that the gear was defective. I don’t know if that was the case or if I had no power left, however the rope wouldn’t budge. I misplaced,” he stated.
Within the ultimate reduce of the episode that aired, the match gave the impression to be one steady recreation.
As of the week ending Feb 26, Bodily: 100 has been on Netflix’s Prime 10 charts for non-English TV reveals for 5 weeks.
Woo added: “I’ve little doubt that all of us tried our greatest and all of us took the matches significantly. And I really feel inevitably answerable for how this controversy has doubtlessly distorted the real efforts that the contestants made on Bodily: 100.
“The sequence was, from the beginning, based mostly on sportsmanship – the thought of competing at our extremes and accepting the outcomes. I do know the viewers fell in love with the sequence for that motive. And so I promise to remain true to these values.”
This text was first printed in The Straits Occasions.
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