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Nguyen Doan Dung (standing) | VietNamNet Bridge – Three members of the national wrestling team fled from their team to stay in South Korea illegally on March 23 and 24.
After the Asian Wrestling Championship closed, the Vietnamese wrestling team left Jeju Island for Incheon Airport in Seoul to fly back to Vietnam. At the airport, the coaching board discovered two wrestlers, Duong Dinh Nam and Nguyen Van Phong, had disappeared. A coach reported the case to local police and asked for their assistance. While at the airport for 10 hours waiting for their flight, another wrestler named Nguyen Doan Dung, who won a gold medal at the 24th SEA Games, fled.
According to a senior official of the Elite Sports Department 1, General Department of Sports and Physical Training, the three wrestlers are outstanding members of the national team so they were sent to the Asian Wrestling Championship in South Korea.
In the past ten years, eight wrestlers have fled like this and seven of them belong to Hanoi.
“Most wrestlers come from the countryside and they are easily enchanted by short-sighted economic benefits. We can do nothing to prevent them from fleeing. Can we handcuff wrestlers and coaches together day and night?” said coach Nguyen Quang Long.
(Source: VNE) | 
