The 'Korean filial son Korea' is in a slump, and even 'Last Hope' failed at the podium... No medal at the speed of ice [Milan Olympics]

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It is a shocking achievement of "no medal" for the first time in 24 years. Even in the mass start, which was the last hope of Korean speed skating on the winter Olympic stage, he failed to win a prize, realizing the world's high wall.

Jung Jae-won (Gangwon Provincial Office) ranked fifth among 16 athletes with six sprint points in the men's mass start final at the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics held at the speed skating stadium in Milan, Italy on the 22nd (Korea time). As a result, Jung Jae-won failed to win the Olympic medal for the third consecutive time, which he was aiming for following the team pursuit silver medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games and the mass start silver medal at the 2022 Beijing Games.

Jung Jae-won ran to maintain the top ranks from the beginning of the game, but he crossed the finish line in fifth place, losing in the last-minute spurt fight. Veteran Yorit Berchsma (68 points, Netherlands) won the gold medal, Viktor Hal Toruf (47 points, Denmark) won the silver medal, and Andrea Giovanni (21 points, Italy) won the bronze medal.

There was no reversal in the women's mass start. Park Ji-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office) finished 14th with a time of 8:36.31 without sprinting points in the final. Park Ji-woo aimed to enter the women's stadium for the first time in eight years since Kim Bo-reum, the silver medalist at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. .

Massstart, which combines short track elements in the ice speed race, will determine the ranking by adding the intermediate score given to each quarter of the total race and the last goal, the order score. In the process of 16 laps, 3, 2, and 1 point will be given to the players who pass the 4th, 8th, and 12th laps from 1st to 3rd, respectively, and 60, 40, 20, 10, 6, and 3 points will be given in order from 1st to 6th at the finish line.

In the end, the Korean speed skating team finished the entire schedule of this year's event without a medal.

It is the first time in 24 years that the Korean ice speed has not won a single medal in the Winter Olympics since the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.Starting with Kim Yun-man's men's 500m silver medal at the 1992 Albertville Games, South Korea has been dominating as an ice-speed powerhouse by harvesting 20 medals (5 gold, 10 silver, 5 bronze), but it has fallen into a severe slump at the Milan Games.

In particular, he struggled in the short distance, which was a traditional filial sport. Kim Joon-ho (Gangwon Provincial Government), who competed in the men's 500m, ranked 12th, while Kim Min-sun (Uijeong City Hall), a Korean women's 500m ice speed sign, ranked 14th, and Lee Na-hyun (Korea National Sports University) also fell to the bottom, showing a gap with medal contention.

It was different from Lee Seung-hoon's gold medal, Kim Bo-reum's silver medal, and Jung Jae-won and Lee Seung-hoon's silver and bronze medals at the 2022 Beijing Games.

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