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Short track Hwang Dae-heon defeats Lin Xiaojun... Winner of the 1,500m World Cup 1st competition

 

 

Park Ji-won wins gold in the first men"s 1,000m race... Gilly Kim won two silver medals.

Korean men"s short track star Hwang Dae-heon (Gangwon Provincial Office) won a landslide victory over former national teammate Lin Xiaojun (Chinese/Korean name Lim Hyo-jun) in his first international competition in four years.

Dae-Heon Hwang won the gold medal by crossing the finish line first with a record of 2 minutes 23.666 seconds in the men"s 1,500m final of the first competition of the 2023-2024 season International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup held in Montreal, Canada on the 22nd (Korean time). I walked.

He beat Steindesmoot (Belgium, 2 minutes 23.789 seconds) by 0.123 seconds.

Kim Geon-woo (Sports Toto), who also advanced to the finals, unfortunately missed out on a medal in 4th place.

Hwang Dae-heon, who declared a break after the Beijing Winter Olympics last year and returned the Taegeuk mark for the 2022-2023 season, showed off his rust-free skills by running a "golden run" from the first competition of his return to the World Cup series this season.

The biggest interest in the men"s 1,500m event at this tournament was the confrontation between Hwang Dae-heon and Lin Xiaojun, who had a bad relationship while on the Korean national team.

The two wore the Taegeuk symbol and worked together on the national team, but their relationship soured after an unpleasant incident occurred during training in 2019.

Lin Xiaojun, who received a one-year suspension from the Korea Skating Federation, became a naturalized Chinese citizen and met Hwang Dae-heon at an international competition for the first time in four years.

Daeheon Hwang and Xiaojun Lin finally faced each other in the men"s 1,500m semifinals that day.

In the semifinals, while Lin Xiaojun took the lead early in the race, Hwang Dae-heon looked for an opportunity at the back.

Daeheon Hwang quickly rose to second place with three laps remaining, pushing Lin Xiaojun to third, then immediately increased his speed and rose to the lead.

Hwang Dae-heon, who had accumulated enough strength, widened the gap comfortably and crossed the finish line in 1st place, while Lin Xiaojun lost 2nd place to Russell Felix (Canada) at the last corner and fell to 3rd place, failing to advance to the finals.

Hwang Dae-heon, who defeated Lin Xiaojun in an overwhelming race and advanced to the finals, marked his return to the World Cup series after a year with a gold medal.

In the women"s 1,500m final, Kim Gil-li (Seongnam City Hall) crossed the finish line with a time of 2 minutes 28.012 seconds, 0.149 seconds behind Haner Desmut (Belgium, 2 minutes 27.863 seconds) and took the silver medal.

In the final of the first men"s 1,000m race, Jiwon Park (Seoul City Hall, 1 minute 24.903 seconds), ranked first in the men"s world last year, narrowly beat Canada"s Stizen Dubois (1 minute 24.916 seconds) by 0.013 seconds and won the gold medal.

Lee So-yeon (Sports Toto) and Seo Hwi-min (Korea University), who competed in the finals of the first women"s 1,000m race, took second and third places and won silver and bronze medals, respectively.

With two laps left to the finish line, Soyeon Lee and Hwimin Seo collided with Poland"s Kamila Stormovska, who tried to overtake them, and fell, unfortunately failing to hunt for the gold medal.

In the mixed relay finals, Korea, led by Kim Gil-li, Kim Geon-woo, Seo Yi-ra (Hwaseong City Hall), and Shim Seok-hee (Seoul City Hall), had to be content with a silver medal after being pushed out by China, led by brothers Shandor Liu and Saoang Liu, who changed their nationality from Hungary to China. did.

Kim Gil-li won two silver medals, including the women"s 1,500m and the mixed relay, while Lin Xiaojun played in the Chinese mixed relay team to the semifinals but missed the final race.

 

 

 

 

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Celebrating like the World Cup and Olympics... ‘2023 World Cup Medal’ coming out

 

 

A commemorative medal will be released with the theme of the "2023 League of Legends World Championship (hereinafter referred to as Worlds)", the world"s largest international e-sports competition held in Seoul and Busan this year.

On the 5th, the Korea Mint and Printing Corporation announced that it would produce the world"s first medal commemorating the World Cup.

‘League of Legends World Championship’ is an e-sports competition hosted by Riot Games. It has been held every year since 2011.

League of Legends was adopted as an official sport at this year"s Hangzhou Asian Games.

The Korean national team received a lot of attention by winning the gold medal and winning the championship.

The 2023 World Cup will be held in Korea for the first time in five years since 2018.

It will run from the 10th to the 19th of next month.

The Play-In Stage, which is the preliminaries, and the Swiss Stage, which is the final, will be held in Seoul, and the quarterfinals and semifinals will be held in Busan.

Afterwards, the long-awaited final will be held at Gocheok Sky Dome located in Guro-gu, Seoul.

This commemorative medal is produced in line with the status of the world"s largest e-sports competition, just as the Mint and Mint produced commemorative coins to commemorate the World Cup and Olympics, international sports competitions held in Korea.

The "2023 League of Legends World Championship Commemorative Medal" is a three-dimensional and highly artistic design with the theme of the trophy awarded to the winning team and the "WORLDS 2023" slogan "THE GRIND & THE GLORY".

Two types of gold and silver medals will be produced in limited quantities and are scheduled to be released in the middle of this month.

Prior to the launch, the Mint and Riot Games plan to present the actual commemorative medal for the first time through the League of Legends pop-up store, which will be installed at Lotte Department Store"s Avenuel World Tower branch from the 7th to the 17th in line with the opening of the 2023 World Cup.

An official from the Mint said, “It is very meaningful to release a commemorative medal for the 2023 League of Legends World Championship, which has established itself as a world-class e-sports competition.”

He added, “We will produce a commemorative medal that matches the status and reputation of the competition, and part of the sales proceeds will be donated to public interest.”

“We will increase the value of the competition by sponsoring it for the right purpose,” he said.

 

 

 

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[Asian Games] First ‘No Gold’ Handball in History, Outlook for Paris Olympics ‘Cloudy’

 

 

 

The men"s national team will immediately qualify for the Paris Olympics starting on the 18th, and the women"s team, which has already confirmed its qualifications for the Olympics, is concerned about weakening international competitiveness.

Last year, Korean handball, which recruited a foreigner as national team coach for the first time in history, ended up winning no gold at the Asian Games, and the prospects for the 2024 Paris Olympics became dim.

The Korean women"s national team lost 19-29 to Japan in the finals of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on the 5th.

It was an unexpected result for the Korean women"s handball team, which prided itself on being the strongest in Asia, losing to Japan, but the fact that the team lost by as much as 10 goals was also shocking.

The men"s national team lost to Qatar after defeating Hong Kong in the group stage, and failed to advance to the semifinals after losing to Bahrain and Kuwait in the final league.

This is the first time that Korean men"s and women"s handball failed to win a single gold medal at the Asian Games since women"s handball became an official sport at the 1990 Beijing Games.

The Korea Handball Association promised good results at the Hangzhou Asian Games and the 2024 Paris Olympics by recruiting Hollando Freitas (Portugal) as coach for the men"s team and Kim Rasmussen (Denmark) as the women"s coach in May last year.

However, Coach Freitas only ranked 28th out of 32 countries at the World Championships in January of this year, and failed to advance to the semifinals at the Asian Games as well, failing to achieve any notable results.

The men"s national team will immediately compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics Asian regional qualifying tournament in Doha, Qatar, starting on the 18th.

If you win here, you can advance to the Olympic finals, and if you come in second place, you can participate in the final world qualifiers, which do not have regional divisions.

Korea was in Group A along with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), India, and China, and must place second to advance to the semifinals.

In terms of objective power, Qatar is superior, and Korea is likely to compete with Saudi Arabia for second place.

Group B consists of Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Japan, and Kazakhstan.

Four countries, excluding the weak Kazakhstan, are expected to compete for first and second place.

No matter who comes up, they are difficult opponents for whom we cannot guarantee victory.

Korean men"s handball failed to participate in the finals of both the 2016 Rio de Janeiro and 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

The situation is slightly better for the women"s national team as they passed the Asian regional preliminaries held in August and have already secured a ticket to Paris.

However, in the Olympic finals, after reaching the semifinals of the 2012 London Games, they were eliminated in the group stage of the 2016 Rio Games and the quarterfinals of the 2021 Tokyo Games.

In particular, the women"s national team was exposed to some creaks as Coach Rasmussen, who was hired in May of last year, was dismissed in February of this year and Coach Henrik Signel (Sweden) was appointed in May.

Coach Signel said in an interview after the runner-up finish on the 5th, "We need to improve our individual skills more until the Olympics,"

"It would be nice to have the opportunity to understand the strengths of ourselves and the strong European teams by playing against European teams several times."

Korean handball, which announced the launch of an integrated professional league starting this year instead of the existing unemployment league, has taken on the task of turning the failure of the Asian Games into an opportunity for "return to fortune" by using it as a foundation for a new league to start and success in next year"s Olympics.

 

 

 

 

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[Asian Games] North and South Korean Table Tennis, From Best Friends to Enemies... Calm Finals

 

 

 

The defeated North Korean players congratulate Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee with stern expressions... ‘No attendance’ at press conference

Table tennis is the sport in which South and North Korea have shared the deepest friendship.

Although South Korea and North Korea have been at odds for over 70 years, they have occasionally fought as one on the international sports stage, conveying great emotion to the world.

The sport that started the process was table tennis.

In the 1991 Chiba World Table Tennis Championships, North and South Korea formed the first unified team to participate, and in the women"s team event, a unified team featuring Hyun Jeong-hwa, Hong Cha-ok (South Korea), Lee Bun-hee, and Yoo Sun-bok defeated "Great Wall" China and won the championship. caused.

Communication between South and North Korea, which started with table tennis, continued with a single team at the World Youth Soccer Championships in the same year and a single women"s ice hockey team at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

North and South Korean table tennis dramatically became one again at the 2018 Team World Championships in Halmstad, Sweden.

South Korea and North Korea were scheduled to face each other in the quarterfinals, but they suddenly formed a single team ahead of the game.

Then, at the Korea Open held in Daejeon in July of that year, the men"s doubles, women"s doubles, and mixed doubles teams were formed as a single team.

Afterwards, as inter-Korean relations became strained, a unified team could no longer be formed.

North Korea"s table tennis, which had disappeared from international competitions, returned to the international stage after three years through the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.

In other sports at this tournament, North Korea often treated South Korean athletes coldly.

In the women"s basketball team that formed a single team at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, it was even said that North Korean players intentionally avoided South Korean players after the match.

However, the North Korean table tennis team was different, perhaps because of the "old affection" that was built deeper than any other sport.

We didn"t talk as easily as we used to, but whenever we met Korean table tennis players on our way to and from the stadium, we would smile at them.

The North Korean table tennis players did not say a word to the South Korean reporters in the joint reporting area (mixed zone), but their faces were always smiling.

The North Korean national team coaches also kindly answered questions from South Korean reporters asking for the exact names of North Korean players.

Reporters often have difficulty verifying the names of North Korean athletes at international competitions due to the different romanization systems between North Korea and South Korea.

Ahead of the North-South confrontation between Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) and Jeon Ji-hee (Mirae Asset Securities) and Cha Soo-young and Park Soo-kyung on the 2nd, there seemed to be a cold atmosphere in table tennis.

Since China was eliminated early, it was a golden opportunity for both South Korea and North Korea to win the Asian Games table tennis gold medal, so it was a match they could never back down from.

It has been 33 years since the men"s team event at the 1990 Beijing Games that South and North Korea faced each other in the table tennis finals of the Asian Games.

At that time, South Korea defeated North Korea and won the gold medal.

Cha Soo-young and Park Soo-kyung, who entered the joint reporting area after confirming their place in the finals, coolly answered when asked by reporters to tell them about their determination for the Korean game, "I"ll tell you after I win first place."

However, once the game began, the cold atmosphere between the North and South Korean teams was not felt that much.

Shin Yu-bin, Jeon Ji-hee, Cha Soo-young, and Park Soo-kyung shook hands and greeted each other calmly before the game.

In the stands, North Korean and South Korean players sat close together and watched the game.

Both sides seemed to be considerate of each other and refrained from cheering vigorously.

At the awards ceremony, Cha Soo-young and Park Soo-kyung congratulated Jeon Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin on their wins.

We held hands once again at the podium.

We even went up to the first place podium and took a commemorative photo together.

However, his expression was stiff.

North Korean players did not attend the post-game press conference.

In this competition, after the awards ceremony, the finalists sat side by side and held a press conference.

On this day, while the match was in full swing, a volunteer announced that the press conference after the women"s doubles final might not be held. A press conference was eventually held, but only Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee attended.

At the start of the press conference, the organizing committee announced, “Players from the Joseon team will not participate.”

That was the end of the table tennis match between North and South Korea in the finals of the Asian Games after 33 years.

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[Asian Games] Best Gold Medal Ahead of Elbow Surgery… Gymnastics Prop Kim Han-sol

 

 

 

 

Kim Han-sol"s (Seoul City Hall) gold medal performance in the men"s floor exercise in artistic gymnastics at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games ahead of elbow surgery is likely to be one of the most brilliant moments in his life.

 

Kim Han-sol took the podium place with an overwhelming score of 14.900 points in the floor exercise finals of the competition held at the Huanglong Sports Center Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China on the 28th.

 

I performed a difficulty level 6.0 technique perfectly with almost no mistakes and received a practice score of 8.900.

 

She performed exactly as recorded in the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) technical scoring book, and earned a high score with a near-flawless performance that did not fall or move even a few steps to the side.

 

The Chinese athletes who won the silver and bronze medals performed techniques with a difficulty level of 6.0 to 6.1 points, but they were unable to catch up with Kim Han-sol as their execution score was only 8.333.

 

This is their second consecutive win at the Asian Games following the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games.

 

While playing as a key member of the Korean gymnastics team for 11 years, the number of medals collected at the Asian Games increased to 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal, and 1 bronze medal.

 

Kim Han-sol"s gold medal was even more valuable as he overcame the double whammy of his elbow injury and his first acting appearance in the final acting sequence.

 

Kim Han-sol has good jumping ability and clean acting, and has contributed greatly to improving the gymnastics team"s team performance in vault and floor exercises.

 

Currently, the first team of the national team, excluding Kim Han-sol, has been dispatched to the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Antwerp, Belgium during the same period as the Asian Games.

 

This competition has a ticket to participate in the team competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics, so the Korean Gymnastics Association sent its second team to the Asian Games and the first team to the World Championships to advance to the Olympic finals for the ninth consecutive time since the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

 

Kim Han-sol, who is at the same level as first-team athletes such as Ryu Seong-hyun (Korea National Sport University), Lee Jun-ho (Jeonbuk Provincial Office), and Lee Jeong-hyo (Army Military Athletic Corps), who excels in all six men"s gymnastics events, unexpectedly entered the Asian Games as a "secondary" athlete. There was a variable called injury.

 

Kim Han-sol suffered from left elbow pain for more than a year after the National Sports Festival last year.

 

He was diagnosed with the need to have bones that were rubbing against each other chipped.

 

However, because major competitions such as the 2023 Asian Games and the World Championships, where qualification for the Olympics are at stake, were held, he could not get to the operating table right away.

 

Kim Han-sol played the game with a bandage wrapped around his left arm.

 

After winning his second Asian Games gold medal, Kim Han-sol said, "I thought it would be a big help if I went to the World Championships, but due to an elbow injury, I withdrew from the rings and bar events at this Asian Games."

 

“I was worried that it would break their morale, and I thought that my teammates might have a harder time, so I don’t feel disappointed about not being able to go to the World Championships,” he said calmly.

 

He then expressed his determination, saying, "I plan to have surgery right after this year"s National Sports Festival, but I want to complete my rehabilitation well and play in the Paris Olympics next year."

 

He then added, "If I train a lot, there will be a big risk of recurrence, but I plan to give it a try." He showed motivation.

 

Kim Han-sol is a veteran of the national team who participated in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro and 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

 

He has both experience and skills, so if he recovers his skills after elbow surgery, he can be a strong support for the national team.

 

 

 

 

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