Taiwan's university football world has been shocked by news that athletes from a women's team were forced to give blood to a government-run sports experiment. A former student says the coach threatened athletes with academic punishment and expulsion from the team for not complying. The school has suspended the coach and is investigating the incident.
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00:00Taiwan's college football world has been rocked by news of a scandal involving students being
00:06forced to give blood for government-funded sports research.
00:10A former student says the coach of a women's university football team threatened athletes
00:15who refused to participate in the experiment, saying they would lose academic credits and
00:21be kicked from the team.
00:23Legislator Sun Peiyu says the school made students sign consent forms after their blood
00:28had already been drawn.
00:30The school has suspended the coach and begun investigating the incident.