"Senior glasses - Kim Minji is on the same team?"' Dong→eun → No medal, raising the question of Japan, "Curling should also be held in individual selection matches." [Milan Olympics]

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At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, "Team Kim" became an issue by promoting curling's charm to many and harvesting silver medals. As the results came out, attention was paid to their special chemistry, but there is a problem that can be raised at any time when the results are not followed, so it is a special selection method.

Japanese media Tokyo Sports said on the 20th (Korea Standard Time), "Due to the sluggish Olympics, some argue that the national team should be selected in a best-member way like baseball and soccer."

On the 19th, the Japanese women's curling team won the women's round robin final game of the 2026 Milan/Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics with a score of 2-9.

Japan finished the tournament full of regrets in a situation where the top four out of the 10 teams can advance to the semifinals.

The media reported that after the game, skip Sayaka Yoshimura shed tears, saying, "I think I'm really sorry that I couldn't win as a skip."

Your shoulders must have been heavy. The Japanese national team won a bronze medal even after losing to South Korea in the semifinals at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games and won a silver medal at the Beijing Games four years ago. This time, he prepared for the competition with the goal of winning the gold medal, but he left a disappointing performance.

According to the media, there are stories that the method should be changed for this. "It is an urgent task to rebuild the national team after looking at the 2030 Olympics in the French Alps," he said. "As a fundamental reform plan, the long-awaited plan is not to select by team as it is now, but to introduce a method of calling up excellent players for each position like other ball sports."

It is said that the selection method by position, not by group, such as "Team Kim," who won the national selection match as the Gyeongbuk Sports Council at the PyeongChang competition, the Gangneung City Hall team at the Beijing competition, and "Team 5G," the Gyeonggi Provincial Government, which was selected as the national team for this competition, could be effective. For example, Kim Eun-jung, Team Kim's "Glasses Sunbae" who was popular with his extraordinary Karsma and sophisticated shots during the PyeongChang competition, and Kim Min-ji, who showed off an amazing shot hit rate in Team 5G, could work together as a team.

He added that such claims are already spreading rapidly on social networking services (SNS). One netizen said, "Why does Japan choose representatives as a team. "If we had formed a team with the best members by selecting individuals for each position and participating in the Olympics, this would not have been the result," another netizen said, adding, "I think the best member method, like baseball and soccer, is good because the experience of the tournament is taken over."

He also said, "I wish curling could be a starting team like baseball's WBC," and "I think curling should also make a starting representative like baseball, soccer, and basketball." It seems that there are individual differences in various technologies such as shots, sweeps, and weight jerseys, "Wouldn't it be better to select excellent players and make the Japanese national team?" and "That would be much stronger."

Of course, this is a question that can arise. In addition, the same is true for Korea, but under the current system, there is no suitable alternative visit even if a specific player is injured or suffering from poor condition, and if it changes to an individual selection method, it can cope with this situation much more flexibly.

However, it is unclear how effective it will be. It is also clear why many countries still make team-level selection. Curling is an event that requires constant communication with each shot and breathing with each other.

In particular, Skip's leadership has a big impact, and it is a sport that can be directly linked to the result by how actively his team members follow and react to his command. The two sweepers should also decide who will sweep through instant judgment and immediately act, which is why it is difficult to continue if they do not work together for a long time.

Various problems can arise in regretting the results. South Korea's loss in the final match against Canada on the 19th and failing to reach the semifinals in fifth place is also not small. However, rather than trying variables in a hurry by focusing only on the results, it seems that problems and side effects of the new method should be closely examined.

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