Strokes to “increase performance”: Short track star unpacks

The 21-year-old tearfully reported that her coach Cho Jae Beom had regularly beaten and insulted her since she was seven years old - he once even broke her fingers while punishing her with an ice hockey stick.

With a concussion to Olympic gold At the hearing in the court in Suwon, south of the capital Seoul, she said she was "deeply traumatized" and that the violence had "escalated" over the years. A few weeks before the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, the coach kicked her and hit her in the head so badly that she thought: “I could die now.” The athlete suffered a concussion in this attack, but still won the relay like four years before Sochi Olympic gold. Punches to “improve performance” Cho has already confessed to beating Shim and three other athletes at a training camp to "improve their performance." In the first trial in October he was sentenced to ten months in prison for assault, but appealed.

At the first hearing, Shim said she had not yet found the courage to confront her tormentor. She is now undergoing psychological treatment for depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Just at the beginning of the month, the South Korean women's curling coaching team was fired for “insulting and exploiting” the players. The “Garlic Girls”, who surprisingly won silver at the home game, accused their supervisors of repeatedly verbally attacking them.

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Strokes to “increase performance”: Short track star unpacks

South Korean short track Olympic champion Shim Suk Hee made shocking statements in court about years of abuse by her coach.

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