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Team Kim, who won the Olympic silver medal for the first time in Korean curling history at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, has ended his 17 years of companionship.
On the 2nd, Team Kim officially announced its dissolution on its official social media (SNS), saying, "We will conclude our journey as a team that began in 2009 in 2026. "My time as a team stops here, but I want to take another path by taking on a new challenge in my respective positions," he said, thanking the fans.
Team Kim is a nickname derived from the fact that the last names of all Gangneung City Hall players, including Kim Young-mi, Kim Kyung-ae, Kim Sun-young and Kim Cho-hee, are "Kim", starting with skip Kim Eun-jung. It was the beginning of the team that Kim Eun-jung and Kim Young-mi, classmates of Uiseong Girls' High School in Gyeongsangbuk-do, took the curling stone as an after-school activity. Later, Kim Young-mi's younger brother Kim Kyung-ae and his friend Kim Sun-young joined, and finally, Kim Cho-hee joined to form the whole body.
They created a nationwide syndrome at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games by winning Korea's first Olympic silver medal in curling. Since then, he has experienced a major crisis of leadership abuse, but he overcame it to participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and built a gold tower of being the first runner-up in Korea at the World Championships in the same year.
However, he was unfortunately eliminated from the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics national team selection match, which ended last month, and his dream of participating in the Olympics for the third consecutive time fell through.
Although the team is disbanded, the relationship with the ice continues. Kim Eun-jung and Kim Kyung-ae will continue their careers in search of a new team, while Kim Young-mi will retire from active duty and take the leadership path.
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