and time now to take a look back at team curry's achievements at the 2022 beijing winter olympics
and so joining us in the studio is our sports editor paul neat so paul the closing ceremony
brought the game to an end on sunday but not before team curry was able to add
another couple of medals what can you tell us about that yes that's right south street added
two more medals over the weekend and they were in the speed skating the men's speed skating
team ended on a high on saturday by earning both a silver and a bronze medal in the men's mass start
chong jiawon won silver but came ever so close to finishing first ending the race just 0.07 seconds
behind bart's wings of belgium is third just 0.02 seconds ahead of chung joey montia of the united
states finished 0.001 seconds behind lee in fourth testament i suggest how tight the finale of the
16-lap race was chung's time came in at 47.1 eight seconds after he spent most of the race in fifth
before moving further up the pecking order in the last lap lee meanwhile was mostly in the middle
of the pack and made it to second place with just two laps to go before eventually finishing
third with a time of 47.2 seconds in doing so he now has meddled in four straight olympics
and that brought korea's medal tally up to nine overall right so overall the men's speed skating
team finished with four medals which are two silver and two bronze medals that's right yeah
kim min seok and charming goo picked up the medals for team korea's speed skating team
in fact it was kim min sakura and team korea's very first gold to breakfast battle story of
beijing 2022 earning bronze in the 1500 meters he did so with a time of one minute 44.24 seconds
kim also finished with a bronze in pyeongchang four years ago and it was similar situation
for charming you who picked up a second straight olympic silver in the 500 meters he finished with
a time of 34.39 seconds just zero point zero seven behind gauting of china who set an olympic record
and as most of us had expected most of our team curry's medals did come from short track speed
skating yes where else in fact the two golds came in short track of course but sir not before some
initial heartbreak uh back on february the seventh huang dehon and egen so were both disqualified in
their 1000 meter semi-final heat for illegal moves decisions were met with controversy but
huangde han won gold in the 1500 metres two days later for south korea's first of beijing 2022
on the women's team chairman zhong who had slipped and fallen without contact in her 500 meter
quarter final bounced back to win silver medals in the 1000 meters and then the 3 000 meter relay
chair then went on to win gold in the very last short track race of the beijing winter olympics
the women's 1500 metre final last wednesday wednesday it was her second strike gold in
the event and fifth korea olympic medal bringing her level with three others for the most winter
olympic medals by a south korean athlete earlier that day though huang dehon also with uh aegean
seoul pak jang yok kim dong and guac unique combined four silver in the 5 000 meter relay all
in all two gold and three silver put south korea top of the short track metal charts one ahead of
china the netherlands italy and canada overall south korea ended the games with nine middles
two gold five silver and two bronze and this along with the 14th place finish was enough to reach the
pre-games target of a top 15 finish and one or two goals right um and uh i understand that uh
you briefly touch upon the uh the controversial disqualification of huang de hun and egenza
in their uh individual games but south korea's olympic committee has decided not to appeal
against the controversial short track or refereeing decisions why is that the case well
this was announced on sunday at a press conference in beijing the korea sports and olympic committee
president e ki hung said the decision was reached after consultations with
legal experts the ksoc had earlier wanted to take its appeal to the court of arbitration for sport
after huang and lee were disqualified from the semi-final races in the men's 1000 meters but
the decisions ended up sending chinese skaters through to the final lead to speculation in south
korea that short judges were deliberately favoring the host nation within hours of the race the ksoc
announced it would appeal but lee said on sunday he had seen enough effort
from the international skating union to address fairness and transparency in officiating right but
it is unfortunate for the individual skaters really looking beyond the middles there are
some very touching moments during the olympics as well yes indeed there were perhaps the most
heartwarming was an embrace between the russian and ukrainian athletes amid the rising tensions
between the two countries russia's idiot boroff and ukraine's alexander obamenko both hugged
following the men's freestyle skiing aerials final avamenko won silver and burroff took the bronze
and in snowboarding the legend that is sean white made his final run of what has been a storied
career he finished fourth in the men's half pipe but the support he received afterwards brought him
to tears and of course team korea's very own kim min seok was seen consoling a destroyed ninjongyan
of china after the speed skating 1500 meter final this was despite the fact that kim had just
won the bronze medal and took time to see how his fellow skater was doing after finishing seventh
despite being a gold medal contender right that's what um the olympic spirit is all about
and sportsmanship is all about it's really good to see that we've seen these touching moments
during this olympics as well thank you so much for that paul and we'll see you next week thank you