"Milano's Door, We Open" Curling Mix Double Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok, 韓선수 Team's No. 1 Korea... Facing the Strongest Sweden

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Kim Sun-young (33, Gangneung City Hall) and Jung Young-seok (31, Gangwon Provincial Government) of the curling mix double (mixed duo) are the first runners of the 2026 Milan/Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics.

Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok will play the first preliminary match against Sweden at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, at 3:05 a.m. on the 5th (Korea time), two days before the opening ceremony.

The opening ceremony of the tournament will be held at 4:30 a.m. on the 7th at Milan's San Siro Stadium, but the curling mix double will start the schedule first with a pregame.

He will meet the 'world's strongest' from the first round. Sweden's Isabella Brano-Rasmus Brano-Joe, the first-round opponent, is a strong favorite to win the 2024 World Championship between her biological siblings, so a close race is expected.

It's in the middle of a mountain. After the match against Sweden, the second leg is waiting for the host country Italy at 6:05 p.m. on the same day. Italy's Stefania Konstantini-Amos Mossaner Joe is the 'defending champion' who won the gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. It is a difficult schedule to face the championship contenders one after another from the beginning.

However, the momentum of Korean curling is also strong. This competition is the first stage in the history of Korean curling mix-double to advance to the finals of self-reliance. He participated as a host country at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, but this time Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok proudly won the ticket through the final Olympic qualifying round (OQE).

In particular, it is a special Olympics for Kim Sun-young. Following the women's silver medal (Team Kim) at the PyeongChang competition and the Beijing competition, he participated in the Milan competition, becoming the first Korean curler to participate in the Olympics three times. After overcoming the disappointment of being eliminated from the women's national team selection match, he will join forces with Jung Young-seok to hunt for medals once again.

Meanwhile, in this mixed-double event, a total of 10 teams will qualify in a round robin (full league), and the top four teams will advance to the semifinal tournament to determine the color of the medal.

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