Youth Olympics Ji-ah Shin, The Main Character of the 'Comeback Victory', "Experience in the Individual Competition is a Great Strength"

Shin Ji-ah , who couldn't overcome the tension in the individual match and made a big mistake in two days, grew up and achieved 'personal best score' in the last match of the team match where she won the gold medal.

Shin Ji-ah (Yeongdong Middle School), a figure skating star, made a big mistake in the women's single free skating at the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics (hereinafter referred to as Gangwon 2024) held on the 30th of last month.

She received a '0' on the task as she failed to complete her rotation count while performing a change foot combination spin.

A score of '0' in a spin task that is not even a jump task is a scene rarely seen in major international competitions.

It was because they could not overcome the pressure of being on the Olympic stage. 먹튀검증가이드

Because of this mistake, Shin Ji-ah lost to her rival Mao Shimada (Japan) and won the silver medal.

Shin Ji-ah once again suffered from great pressure at the Gangwon 2024 figure skating team event held at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangwon-do on the 1st.

She ranked second behind the United States (12 points) with 8 ranking points for Korea ahead of the final event, women's singles.

Depending on the performance of Shin Ji-ah, a women's singles athlete, whether she would win the gold medal was a matter of difference.

Shin Ji-ah was well aware that her colleagues' medals were of different colors depending on her performance.

Shin Ji-ah said, “I felt a lot of tension while warming up,” and “I felt very burdened.”

However, Shin Ji-ah was different from two days ago.

He started off with a strong performance and then performed all his jumps cleanly.

In addition, he performed 'flawlessly', handling all non-jumping tasks at 'Level 4', the highest difficulty, including the change foot combination spin that he made a mistake during the individual competition.

The score displayed on the electronic display board was 137.48 points.

Not only did she beat 2nd place Sherry Jang (USA, 122.76 points) by a large margin, but she also broke her personal highest free skating score.

Korea won the gold medal thanks to Shin Ji-ah's magical performance.

Shin Ji-ah, who we met in the common coverage area after the game, said, "Experiencing the Olympic stage once in the individual event was a great help.

I learned which areas I needed to pay attention to, and this led to good results."

She added, "She was able to enjoy her acting more because she had teammates cheering her on."

She and her teammates, who teamed up with Shin Ji-ah to win the gold medal, could not hide their joy.

Kim Hyeon-gyeom (Han Advertising), who won two gold medals in the team event following the individual men's singles, said, "Actually, I made a mistake in my performance today and felt sorry for my teammates, but I am thankful that we all achieved good results together."

He added, "I am more grateful for the team event gold medal than the individual gold medal."

“I feel a little more proud,” he said.

The Korean players who won the gold medal that day also attracted attention by performing a 'click' ceremony with the national soccer team's Son Heung-min (Tottenham) on the podium.

Ice Dance Inamoo (Gyeonggi Provincial Skating Federation) said, “This is a ceremony suggested by Coach Kim Jin-seo,” and added, “I hope the national soccer team participating in the Asian Cup will win.”

The youth figure skating team won two gold medals (men's singles Kim Hyun-gyeom, team event) and one silver medal (women's singles Shin Ji-ah) at this competition.

This is the first time that a medal has been won in the men's singles and team event.