TOKYO: WINNERS AND LOSERS
An San of Korea had already won two gold medals in mixed team and women’s team when, almost overnight, a story blew up about a deluge of online hate aimed at her and focusing, it seemed, on her short haircut. It was a story that touched upon many things, including some particularly antediluvian attitudes at home, but apparently enough trolls had marked An out as a ‘feminist’ because of the way she cut her hair.
The night before, after her first set of individual qualifiers, one of the Korean press corps who had been camping out in the venue media centre asked her a question about it in the ‘mixed zone’, the labyrinth of rails that athletes must enter to speak
