let's move on to other stories now in less than a month the world's biggest winter
sports festival opens in china there's a list of athletes from team korea to look out for
hanzong returns a spotlight to these olympians
winning one or two gold medals and ranking in the world's top 15. that's the mission south korea's
olympic committee has set for the 2022 beijing winter games now just three weeks away it's
a modest goal for the previous host country who just four years ago at pyeongchang 2018
bagged a total of 17 medals five of them gold injuries trouble behind the scenes and of course
disruptions from kovin 19 have lowered the bar but those issues haven't discouraged team korea
the goal doesn't hold much meaning for athletes really it's all up to us
more important are what goals we set for ourselves
despite the official goal expectations remain high especially for short track speed skating
out of a total of 31 gold medals won by south korea in the winter games 24 have come from short
track more than china canada and the united states tallies combined pang de hun who won silver in
the men's 500 meter event four years ago has his eyes locked on continuing korea's golden legacy
when you talk short track speed skating you talk south korea
we're the best and we're training with high intensity so beijing will be no different
as long as we concentrate i'm going to give this olympics my all and make everyone watching proud
in long track speed skating all eyes will be on chongje1 for whom beijing is a chance to skate
out of olympic champion isenghun's shadow in the mass star no longer as a pacemaker but now
as a serious metal contender and of course one of the jewels of the winter olympics women's figure
skating seventeen-year-old yu young hailed by some as the next kimiana claimed her ticket to beijing
by clinching first place in the national olympic trials showcasing her signature triple axel
i can't believe i'm finally heading to my first ever winter olympics the stage
of my dream since i was little i'm going to train hard and do my best to shine bright
meanwhile on snow alpine snowboarder izam ho will be competing for the top prize in the parallel
giant slalom where he won silver four years ago a surprise gold medal in 2018 came right here
in pyeongchang's olympics lighting center where skeleton racer yoon songbin practically introduced
his country to a sport that's now become a korean winter olympic favorite
this time though he faces tougher competition up-and-coming fellow countrymen changsengi
currently outranks yoon and claimed his first world cup medal recently winning bronze in latvia
my running start is the greatest competitive advantage i have and to
maximize it i'll be focusing on building up my stamina leading up to the olympics
once i'm there i'll enjoy the festive mood with my fellow olympians as much as possible
but at the same time be grinding my game so i can get on the podium
also don't forget curling's team kim after finishing runners-up four years
ago the young knee sensation continues in beijing where the kim sisterhood
will this time try to go one better and curl their way to gold hanzo arirang news