The short track team trains at the Jincheon National Athlete’s Village in North Chungcheong Province on the 5th, ahead of the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on the 30th. Jincheon = Reporter Park Jong-min
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.
Coach Lee Young-seok answers questions from reporters during the G-30 Media Day of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics held at the Jincheon National Team of Korea on the 5th. Jincheon = Reporter Park Jong-min
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.
Minjung Choi (right) and Jiyu Kim of the national short track team collide during the women’s 1,500m final in the first round of the 2021-2022 International Skating Union (ISU) Short Track World Cup held at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China on October 23, 2021. yunhap news
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.
Shim Seok-hee (left) and Choi Min-jung wake up following collided and fell during the women’s 1000m short track track at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Reporter Lee Han-hyung
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.”
