Were Malaysia robbed of their first medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Sunday?
Taekwondo exponent Nurul Hidayah Karim certainly thought so as she alleged unfair judging during her women's poomsae quarter-final bout against Iran's Marjan Salahshouri.
A victory would have guaranteed Nurul Hidayah a medal, as the losing semi-finallists were awarded the bronze.
Nurul Hidayah and Marjan were awarded an identical score of 7.780 points at the end of the two-round bout, but the latter was declared the winner after the judges awarded 0.3 points for her performance.
The Malaysian was heartbroken as she was confident of advancing to the semi-finals.
National coach Jin Jun Beom wanted to file a protest, but the organisers insisted that there would not be changes to the result.
Only the referee would be suspended from his duties if his protest were successful.
"Nurul Hidayah should have won the bout. Her performance was perfect and did not make mistakes, especially in the second fight of the bout.
"The Iranian athletes made mistakes.
"I wanted to file a protest. However, the result would not have changed. It is very disappointing after all the hard work in training for the Asian Games," said Jun Beon yesterday.
The Bintulu-born Nurul Hidayah was in tears after she lost the bout.
"It has happened many times to me before. However, I did my best this time, and there were no mistakes during the bout.