"Korea's first runner at the Olympics" curling mix double Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok were completely defeated by Swedish siblings 3-10

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Kim Sun-young (33, Gangneung City Hall) and Jung Young-seok (31, Gangwon Provincial Government), the curling mixed double team, who were the first Korean players to play at the 2026 Milan/Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics, were completely defeated in the first round.

Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok lost 3-10 to Sweden's Isabella Brano-Rasmus Brano in the first round of the curling mix-double round robin at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Italy on the 5th (Korea time).

The tournament will open on the 7th, but the curling mix-double started its schedule two days earlier. Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok, who succeeded in advancing to the Olympic finals for the first time in Korean curling history, fought hard against Sweden's brother and sister, the winner of the 2024 World Championship, but lost.

The early momentum was good. He scored the first run amid a power outage at the first end, and after two runs at the second end, he scored two points again at the third end to take a 3-2 lead.

However, it shook sharply from the fourth end. After allowing a turnaround by giving up three points, he lost his victory by allowing four runs in a large number at the fifth end. He tried a "power play" to gather guard stones into the corner for a mass score at the 6th end, but when he gave up one more point, the two asked for a handshake and admitted defeat.

Kim Sun-young and Jung Young-seok will play the second match against Italy's Stefania Constantini-Amos Mossaner, the 2022 Beijing Olympics gold medalist, at 6:05 p.m. on the same day.

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