I succeeded in spinning 1620 degrees, but...' CHAE WON Lee, snowboard halfpipe, final 6th place... 日, Geum and Dong swept away [Milan Olympics]

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Korean men's snowboard sign Lee Chae-woon (Kyung Hee University) failed to make it to the podium in the end.

Lee Chae-woon ranked 6th out of 12 with 87.50 points in the men's halfpipe final at the Lvigno Snowpark in Italy on the 13th (Korea time).

Yuto Totsuka of Japan won the gold medal with 95.00 points. The silver medal is Scottie James of Australia with 94.50 and the bronze medal is Ryusei Yamada of Japan with 92.00. James, who won the silver medal after falling behind Ayumu Hirano (Japan) at the 2022 Beijing Games, was again blocked by a Japanese player and finished second for the second time in a row.

Halfpipe is a competition in which a referee scores and ranks aerial performances on a semi-cylindrical slope inclined by snowboarding.

Lee Chae-woon, who passed the preliminary round in ninth place earlier, advanced to the final round with the top 12 players. He became the first Korean male player to try a halfpipe medal, but unfortunately, he failed to achieve his dream.

Lee Chae-woon, who was the fourth runner in the first round of the finals, tried to spin 1620 degrees (four and a half laps), his secret weapon, after succeeding in the first two jumps, but fell during the landing process and failed to complete the race.

In the second period that followed, he tried to change his strategy to lower the difficulty, but he slipped on the third jump and swallowed the disappointment again.

It was only during the third period that Lee Chae-woon's true value was revealed. The previously failed 1620 also performed a "clean act" by perfectly digesting the remaining tasks, including technology, and clenched his fist.

However, the score on the electronic display was 87.50, which failed to reach the medal table. Lee Chae-woon wrapped up his first Olympic final stage by hugging his father with regret.

Lee Chae-woon, who was born in 2006, stood out early in March 2023 when he won the men's halfpipe at the World Championship as the youngest ever at 16 years and 10 months old.

At the 2022 Beijing Games, which was the first Olympics, she ranked 18th out of 25 preliminaries. In the second Olympics, Lee Chae-woon made it to the final for the first time in Korean men's snowboard halfpipe history, but his medal ticket was canceled.

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