Cha Min-gyu waving the Taegeukgi on the silver plate [사진=연합뉴스]
The day before (February 12), news of the silver medal flew from the silver board. It was in the ice where he succeeded in winning the Beast Hanger Medal.
The men’s 500m speed skating division at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was held on February 12 at 5:53 pm (Korean time) at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, China.
Mingyu Cha (Uijeongbu City Hall) won the silver medal in 34.39 seconds. It is 0 seconds 07 difference from gold medalist Gao Tingyu (China, 34 seconds 32). Gao Tingyu’s 34.32 seconds was an Olympic record.
Cha Min-gyu won the silver medal for the second time in a row following the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
The road to the silver medal was not easy. This season, he’s never been in the top five in four World Cups he’s played before the Olympics.
As a result, the Korean team won 1 gold medal (Hwang Dae-heon), 2 silver medals (Choi Min-jung, Cha Min-gyu), and 1 bronze medal (Kim Min-seok). All four medals came from ice events (short track and speed skating).
The bronze medal was awarded to Morishige Wataru (Japan, 34.49).
Among Korean players excluding Cha Min-gyu, Kim Jun-ho (Gangwon Provincial Office) finished the tournament in 6th place (34.54 seconds).
Tim Kim high-fives [사진=연합뉴스]
In the women’s curling team, Tim Kim (Gangneung City Hall) defeated the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) 9-5, and recorded two consecutive victories (UK, ROC) following losing one (Canada).
Curling is a full league. Ten countries play one or two matches every day. After the league ends, the top four countries choose the color of the medals for the semi-final tournament.
Currently, Team Kim is in fourth place following Switzerland (4 wins) and the United States and Japan (3 wins).
At 3:05 pm on this day, Team Kim will face the host country, China. It is a bloody battle on the silver plate that cannot be turned back. China is shaking with 1 win and 3 losses.
Timofei Rapsin (Jeonnam Athletic Association) placed 82nd in the men’s 10km biathlon sprint.
Eunji Kim (Gangwon BS Games Federation), who turned from long jump to skeleton, placed 23rd with a total of 3:09.79 in the first and third rounds of the first Olympics. She didn’t play in the 4th season, when the top 20 advances. The gold medal in this category was won by Hannah Naise (Germany).
Germany won gold medals in 4 luge divisions and 2 men’s and women’s skeleton divisions at this Olympic Games. It is the first time in Olympic history to win all events in the luge and skeleton events.
In the match between the United States and Canada in the ice hockey fateful match, the United States won 4-2. It is the first time in 12 years since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics that the United States defeated Canada.
Together, 78-year-old Nick Bumgartner, 41, and 37-year-old Lindsey Zachaverellis Joe won gold in the snowboard cross final. It beat two teams from Italy and one team from Canada.
Zacerbellis will erase the black history of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics following 16 years. At the time, she had won her silver medal in the women’s final following losing her lead while performing her stunts 40 meters before the finish line.
Germany (8 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze) ranked first in the medal ranking as of February 12. 2nd place is Norway (8 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze), 3rd is the United States (5 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze), 4th is the Netherlands (5 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze), 5th is Sweden ( 5 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze), 6th place Austria (4 gold, 6 silver 6, 4 bronze), 7th China (4 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze), 8th ROC (3 gold, 4 silver) , 6), 9th Italy (2 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze), 10th Japan (2 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze), 11th Slovenia (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze), Switzerland (2 gold, 5 bronze) in 12th, France (1 gold, 6 silver) in 13th, and Canada (1 gold, 4 silver, 8 bronze) in 14th.
Korea and Australia are tied for 15th with one gold medal, two silver medals and one bronze medal.
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