One foul! Really? 16:26 12/14/2016 ... or how to take gold medal for referees. Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. In recent years, the problem of refereeing in armwrestling escalated and began to rise up more and more often. After each tournament there are questions to the referees who served fights. Sometimes judicial errors cost an athlete a gold medal. More recently, at the Zloty Tour Rustam Babaev faced such a problem. Rustam conceded the gold medal to his opponent, while Rustam’s hand has not been pressed to the pad. In an interview immediately after armpower.net Zloty Tour Rustam gave the following comment: " A striking example of biased refereeing panel was fixed by the camera during my semifinal match with Rafiq Gunashev. Obviously it is clear that at the start his elbow was not on te pad, and after the command "go" it has continued to go to the center. But the refree was only waiting for my elbow slip (though I am not sure it slipped), but I will not argue,