Taiwan coach apologises for 'pressuring' students to give blood

A sports manager astatine a Taiwanese assemblage has issued a ceremonial apology implicit a probe task that allegedly progressive her coercing students into giving blood, according to section media.

Chou Tai-ying, 61, said that her volition was to assistance her squad "because I had lone a fewer players and they were often injured", but it is not known precisely what the humor was being taken for.

A Taiwanese politician, Chen Pei-yu, brought the lawsuit to airy successful 2024, alleging students were told that they would suffer world credits if they did not instrumentality part.

An interior probe astatine National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) successful Taipei aboriginal recovered the humor sampling had started successful 2019 and continued into 2024 for antithetic "research projects".

Coach Chou, who admitted asking unqualified students to assistance retreat the blood, apologised connected Saturday for placing "any unit connected the schoolhouse and the students" done her "reckless words and behaviour," Taiwan's Focus News bureau reported.

"It is decidedly my responsibility for making you consciousness the mode you did," she said to the students via a statement.

Professor Chen Hsueh-chih, person of 1 of the unspecified probe projects, besides issued an apology.

He said the purpose was to assistance pupil athletes, but admitted it had unintentionally brought them and their families harm.

The interior probe indicated that students had fixed humor erstwhile a day. The samples were thrown retired aft the probe recovered responsibility with the mode the humor was drawn.

Chen Pei-yu primitively alleged that the probe task required players to springiness 3 humor samples a time for 14 days straight. She said the players were required to instrumentality portion successful the task implicit respective years.

NTNU main Wu Cheng-chi apologised connected Saturday for what helium called the school's negligence. He said the institution's morals and oversight procedures would beryllium reviewed.

Taiwan's lawman acquisition curate said the lawsuit would beryllium reviewed by their department, arsenic good arsenic the actions of Chou and Chen.

Separately, the acquisition ministry said connected Thursday it mightiness revoke the coaching licence of an NTNU women's shot coach, without naming the individual.