I was very appalled, frustrated, disappointed, and angered at the event taken place at the Derby Wrestling meet, to watch certain children demonstrate such unacceptable sportsmanship and behavior. It is sad to watch this one particular child using an illegal move to hurt another child, just so he could win. Well, in my opinion, he is the biggest loser. He'll never be a winner, because he really don't know what it means to win honestly, with real skill and sportsmanship.
I do blame the coaches. For, it is them, who teaches these children to hurt other children, just for the sake of winning. What I don't uderstand, is, why in the world, this club "AC HEAT", is still allowed to participate in these wrestling meets? What does it take, to ban this kind of activity and bad behavior? Are you all waiting for more innocent children to get seriously hurt, or even killed? When a child, after being told, he broke his opponents arm, laughs, and responds with "so?? what about it?", and shows absolutely no remorse, I think it is time to do something about it, namely refuse these children to participate in any wrestling activity. This at least would prevent other children get hurt. These innocent children deserve better. I have watched many children, and see a sparkle in their eyes, after they've given their best , win or lose, without using "cheap shots".
And one last thing. How about the referee? I still have not figured out, whether he is incompetent, or just plain ignorant, to allow this to happen, and not disqualifying the child, that intentionnally hurt another human being. He just shrugged his shoulders, as if to say " S... HAPPENS". It was a very sad day for many of us, having to watch such terrible tragedy. I pray for the boy, that his arm will heal proper, so he can use it in a normal way.
