The short track team is preparing for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as a coach without a head coach.
The Korea Sports Association has set a goal of 1 or 2 gold medals in this competition. Short track is a traditional filial piety event, and one or two gold medals are expected in this event.
Coach Lee Young-seok, who will lead the women’s team, has a heavy shoulder.
Coach Lee is leading the women’s national team with coach Sohwi Lee, which has been shattered by the controversy surrounding Shim Suk-hee’s colleague insults and insults.
On the 5th, 30 days before the competition, coach Lee stood in front of reporters who visited the Jincheon National Team of the National Team and announced the preparations for the competition.
He said, “Until now, the players and the coaches have been working hard by working together and raising (performance) a lot.”
Coach Lee said, “We may be a little lacking in the lack of a coach, but the coaching staff and players are working together to coordinate opinions and help each other a lot,” he said.
Regarding the expected performance, he smiled and said, “It’s a difficult question. According to the media, we are aiming for one or two, but our players and coaching staff are aiming a little more than that overall,” he confidently promised good results. did.
However, when asked regarding the clash between our players, his expression hardened.
In the first round of the 2021-2022 International Skating Union (ISU) Short Track World Cup, Minjeong Choi (Seongnam City Hall) and Jiyu Kim (General Competition) competed for the finish line before collided with each other and missed the medal.
It was not a good scene for the national team, which was traumatized by Shim Seok-hee’s intentional collision controversy during the women’s 1000 final at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Regarding the situation at the time, coach Lee said, “A game is a race for each player. I think that greed was a bit ahead in that part of trying something.”
The reporter asked a question regarding how we are coordinating the competitive situation between our players in the future.
This coach did not answer easily. He was thinking while looking elsewhere, but he spoke out with difficulty.
Coach Lee replied, “If you say that you are competing in good faith, it cannot be called a strategy.
He continued, “I think that what happened during the game is unavoidable,” and “I think the priority is to analyze it well and respond.”