Olympic debut! Figure Im Hae-na-Kwon Ye ranks 7th out of 10 ice dance rhythm dance teams with '70.55 points'

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Lim Hae-na and Kwon Ye (Gyeonggi General) ranked seventh in the ice dance rhythm dance, the first event of the Winter Olympics team event.

Im Hae-na and Kwon Ye-jo received a total of 70.55 points in the ice dance rhythm dance of the figure skating team event of the '2026 Milan·Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics' held at the Milan Ice Skating Arena on the 6th (Korea time).

This score is 5.47 points short of their highest score of 76.02 in the Warsaw Cup of the International Skating Union (ISU) Challenger tournament in November last year. Im Hae-na and Kwon Ye-jo gave Team Korea four points, ranking seventh among the 10 participating countries.

Lim Hae-na-Kwon Ye-jo, who selected the movie "Men in Black" as the background music, had some difficulty securing a performance score (GOE) as she received level 4 in the first task, Sequential Twizzle. He was also judged level 2 in the subsequent midline step sequence. However, in the rotational lift, which is a high-level technology, it scored a GOE of 1.10 points by recording the highest difficulty level of 4.

In the match, Madison Chok-Evan Bates of the United States took first place with 91.06 points, taking 10 points. France's Laurent Punier-Vudry-Guillaume Sizlong Joe, who scored 89.98 points, came in second, followed by Britain's Lila Peer-Lewis Gibson Joe, who scored 86.85 points.

It is the first time in eight years that South Korea has competed in the Olympic figure skating team event since the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. A total of 10 countries, including South Korea, the United States, Japan, Canada, Italy and France, participated in this competition. The team event is a method in which only the top five teams advance to free skating and compete for medals by summing up short program (rhythmic dance) scores in four events, including men's and women's singles, pairings, and ice dance.

The Korean national team is unable to score points in the event because it does not have the right to participate in the pair event. Korea is the only country among the 10 countries to participate in the competition without a pair team.

Shin Ji-ah (Sehwa Girls' High School) will participate in the women's single short program following ice dance, and Cha Jun-hwan (Seoul Metropolitan Government), the male single sign, will compete in the men's single short program scheduled for the 8th to seek a rebound in the rankings.

Meanwhile, fellow players, including Cha Jun-hwan and Lee Hae-in, sat in the stands and watched the game.

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