Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics Closes Today... Korea Gives Hope to Winter Sports
The 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games (Gangwon 2024) will conclude its 14-day journey with a closing ceremony on the 1st.
Gangwon 2024, which announced the start of the competition simultaneously at the Gangneung Speed Skating Rink and Pyeongchang Dome on the 19th of last month, will be the final stage of friendship and harmony with a closing ceremony with the theme of 'Let's Shine Again' at the plaza in front of the Gangneung Hockey Center auxiliary stadium at 8 pm on the 1st. decorate
Gangwon 2024 is the first Winter Youth Olympics held on the Asian continent.
By utilizing the same facilities as the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, which ended successfully six years ago, the Gangwon 2024 Organizing Committee and our government have significantly saved their budget, and vividly delivered the experience of the adult Olympics to the 1,802 athletes from the 78 participating National Olympic Committees (NOCs), thereby helping them prepare for the future. 온라인카지노
It has become a competition that kills three birds with one stone: fostering Olympians and spreading the Olympic spirit.
In this competition, Korean teenagers showed their dreams to the fullest in the snowy fields and silver fields of Gangwon-do, revealing the future of Korean winter sports.
Snowboarding star Lee Chae-woon (Suri High School) lived up to expectations by winning a gold medal despite various unexpected factors.
Chaewoon Lee is the next generation of men's snowboarding.
In his first event, the men's slope start, held on the 25th of last month, he won comfortably, beating his competitors by a large margin.
He also won the gold medal in the men's snowboarding half-five final on the 1st with 88.50 points, becoming the second gold medalist in the competition.
Hope was also found in sledding, which had not achieved much success since Yoon Seong-bin won the gold medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Jae-Hwan Jae (Sangji Daegwallyeong High School) won the gold medal in the men's bobsleigh monobob (single-person) competition, beating his competitors by a long distance with a total time of 1 minute 48.63 seconds in the first and second periods.
Jaehwan Sohwan, a former track and field shot put athlete who switched to skeleton in his third year of middle school, is evaluated as having both strength and speed, and has grown into the next generation's star through various international competitions.
A surprising prospect was born in freestyle skiing, which is considered a wasteland of Korean sports.
Lee Yun-seung (Song Gok-go) took the top spot in the men's freestyle skiing dual mogul finals, beating Huff Porter (USA) 18-17.
He also won two medals in this competition, including winning a silver medal in the dual mogul mixed team competition with Yoon Shin-i (Bongpyeong High School).
Next-generation stars have emerged one after another in the 'biggest sports' short track and speed skating.
Joo Jae-hee (Han Gwanggo) won the gold medal in the short track men's 1500m final with a time of 2 minutes 21.906 seconds, beating China's Zhang Xin-je (2 minutes 22.095 seconds).
Jeong Hee-dan (Seonsago) took second place in the women's 500m speed skating with a time of 39.64 seconds, following Angel Dahlemann (39.28, Netherlands).
Figure skating women's single Ji ah Shin (Youngdong Middle School) won a silver medal after fierce competition with her 'rival' Mao Shimada (Japan).
Ji-ah Shin made a big mistake in the free skating, including blowing one spin assignment due to a rotation problem, but she did not lose confidence, saying, "Today's mistake will be a great nutrient."
Ji-Ah Shin performed a perfect performance in the figure skating team event held on the 1st, and she won the gold medal for the Korean team.
Korea, which formed the national team with women's single Shin Ji-ah, men's single Kim Hyeon-gyeom (Han Advertising), and ice dance Kim Ji-ni and Lee Namu (Gyeonggi Provincial Skating Federation), defeated the United States (12) with 13 ranking points at the team event held at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangwon-do on the 1st won by one point.
Kim Hyun-gyeom became the first Korean athlete to win two gold medals at this event, and Shin Ji-ah won her second medal following her women's single silver medal.
This competition was also a huge hit in terms of box office success. Secretary General Kim Cheol-min announced at the daily briefing, "As of today, the number of spectators for the game was 270,000 and the number of cultural event visitors was 230,000, totaling 500,000, well exceeding the target of 250,000."
The figure skating competition held for four days starting on the 27th saw an average of 12,000 people visit the stadium each day, and many spectators visited ice hockey, curling, ski jumping, and alpine skiing competitions despite the cold weather, the organizing committee added.
At Gangwon 2024, 1,800 athletes from 78 countries around the world competed in 7 games, 15 events, and 81 specific events.
In particular, the organizing committee explained that it has become a truly global sporting event in name and reality as athletes from countries on the African continent such as Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, as well as countries in the Middle East such as Iran, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, which is at war, and the Philippines, where it does not snow, are participating.
The 1,984 volunteers who helped participants throughout the competition are the ones behind the successful completion of the 14-day journey. 카지노사이트 백링크
Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said to the volunteers, "Your endless energy and passion, your smiles and kindness warmed my heart.
The athletes and the Olympic family felt all of this together, and we felt it all together during our stay in Gangwon Province."
“I would like to express my gratitude to the volunteers who made it special.”
