Cuba’s Ángel Matos won a gold medal in TaeKwonDo at the at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the 80kg (176lbs) division. In 2004, he did not make the medal round, but showed one the central tenet’s of the discipline – beckjool boolgool, often translated as “indomitable spirit.” Matos didn’t quit, and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he made the medal round.

Matos was beating Kazakhstan’s Arman Chilmanov 3-2 in the bronze medal match, when he sustained a broken toe. Under Olympic World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) rules, you can take a Kyeshi (suspend, or medical timeout) of one minute. The referee gave him a warning at 40 seconds.

Under WTF rules injured players are allowed one minute, and then must come to center ring to resume fighting, request further time, or forfeit.

Matos did not come to center ring or ask for more time, so Swedish referee Chakir Chelbat disqualified him.

Matos was not impressed.

Striking, heh.

WTF, heh.