"Ace Choi Min-jeong Passes Fantasy" Women's 3000m relay "Moving to the Final"... It's the first time in eight years that 'Geum' will be recaptured [the scene of Milan]

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South Korea's women's short track team will retake the Olympic gold medal for the first time in eight years.

South Korea, consisting of Choi Min-jeong, Kim Ki-li (Seongnam City Hall), Lee So-yeon (Sports Toto), and Shim Suk-hee (Seoul City Hall), ranked first with a time of 4:04:729 in the second group of the women's 3,000m short track relay semifinals at the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics held at the Milan Ice Skating Arena in Italy on the 14th (local time).

This marks Korea's ninth consecutive Olympic final in this event.

South Korea, which started the race with Canada, China and Japan on the day, maintained its second-place position in the early stages of the race and saw a glimpse of the opportunity. South Korea, which remained calm despite China's strong check on the in-course, showed a winning move in the middle of the race. Choi Min-jeong, who was touched by Shim Suk-hee with 10 laps left, dug into the in-course and took the lead.

At the end of the game, Lee So-yeon gave up the lead to China for a while, but ace Choi Min-jeong, who took over the baton again, recaptured the top spot with four laps to go. Kim Ki-li, the last runner, was the first to cross the finish line, widening the gap with explosive speed.

The women's relay is the traditional 'gold field' of Korean short track. From the 1994 Lillehammer Games to the 2006 Turin Games, he won four consecutive gold medals, and also won gold medals in 2014 Sochi and 2018 Pyeongchang. In Beijing 2022, the previous competition, she won a silver medal.

South Korea will play its last match against the Netherlands, Italy and Canada for the gold medal at 4:59 a.m. on the 19th.

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