Dae Sung Lee a nine-time U.S. national champion and four-time Pan American Games gold medalist is the former US Olympic coach. He is back again for the Olympic but this time for a different team.
He was asked to coach for China's team for the coming Olympics and he was fortunate to do
so. I was thinking why did he changed his team when he has already been coaching US perhaps he retired or wanted to try helping coaching others but then the reasons I found out was that he was removed as coach in April 2004 despite in 2003, Lee coached American Steven Lopez to gold medals at the World Championships and Pan American Games after reorganization of the U.S. Taekwondo Union, the sport's governing body. Lee filed a $1 million federal lawsuit, claiming he was removed because of his Korean heritage. Many officers of Korean heritage were also removed during the reorganization.
Lee asked to be reinstated for the 2004 Athens Olympics, but U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway denied his request two weeks before taekwondo competition was to begin. Mollway did side with Lee's claim that he was removed on the basis of race.
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