The Korean medal Korea network came out.' Short track alone predicted three gold medals, and 金··銀 predicted events

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• U.S. Sports Illustrated ProspectsKorea Predicts '3 Gold, 2 Silver, 2 Dongs'

With the curtain on the 2026 Milan/Cortina D'Ampezzo (Italy) Winter Olympics rising, it is predicted that the South Korean team will win three gold medals, two silver medals and two bronze medals in this competition.

Sports Illustrated (SI), a U.S. sports media outlet, predicted on the 8th that South Korea will rank 15th overall with three gold medals.

SI predicted that Korea's three gold medals - men's 1,000-meter short track speed skater Im Jong-eon (Goyang City Hall), women's 1,500-meter Kim Ki-li (Seongnam City Hall) and men's 5,000-meter relay - will all come from short track events.

On top of that, the women's 1,500-meter short track speed skating women's 2000-meter relay and the women's 3,000-meter relay and the women's curling team event were selected as bronze medal candidates, respectively.

In particular, in the women's 1,500m short track event, Kim Ki-li and Choi Min-jeong won gold and silver medals side by side, and among the three medals in the event, gold and silver medals were expected to be up to South Korean athletes.

If SI expectations are correct, news of Korea's first gold medal in the competition could come from the men's 1,000m short track scheduled for 5:43 a.m. on the 13th. The dawn of the 21st, when the men's 5,000-meter relay and women's 1,500-meter finals will be held one after another, could be a so-called "Golden Day."

The SI predicted that the Korean national team will beat the Chinese national team in the men's 5,000-meter relay, while the men's 1,000-meter short track speed skating men's Lim Jong-eon beat China's Liu Xiaoang and others.

However, the possibility of losing to the Netherlands in the 2000m short track medley relay and the Netherlands and Canada in the women's 3,000m relay was weighed.

"Korea is the country with the most medals, winning 53 medals, including 26 gold medals, in the short track events of the Winter Olympics alone," the media said. "Korea's first medal in this event will be Korea's 400th medal in the history of the Winter Olympics."

Lin Xiaojun (Korean name Lim Hyo-jun), who was naturalized to China from Korea, or Kim Min-seok, who was naturalized to Hungary, were not listed on the expected medal list.

South Korea is ranked 15th overall in terms of the SI's medal prospects. Norway (16 gold medals), the U.S. (12 gold medals), and Japan (9 gold medals) ranked first and third overall.

Japan is expected to win gold medals in figure skating women, freestyle ski men's moggle and dual moggle, snowboarding men's big air, women's big air, parallel competition, halfpipe, slopestyle, and speed skating women's 1,500m events.

Among them, Kimura Kira stood atop the podium on the first day of the actual competition in the snowboard men's big air event.

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