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Yesterday, on the 7th day of the Hangzhou Asian Games, a gold medal was won in the roller skating event for the first time in 13 years.
This is reporter Kim Min-hyung from Hangzhou.
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A roller skating speed 10,000m race in which you complete 50 laps around a 200m track and earn points for each specific lap.
Byung-hee Jeong, who was gradually accumulating points, overtook the Chinese athlete who was leading in the last lap.
″Jung Byung-hee was never tired!″
The Chinese athlete could no longer exert his strength, and Byung-hee Jeong, who crossed the finish line in first place, won the gold medal with a total score of 19 points in this event, which was revived after 13 years.
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″It was adopted once 13 years ago and is now becoming an official sport for the second time. My mom cried and said she was happy. So I liked it too. “He almost cried out loud when he saw it from the stands at the stadium.”
In-ho Choi, who played the role of pacemaker for Byung-hee Jeong by holding off Chinese and Taiwanese skaters in the lead, also won a valuable bronze medal, and Garam Yu of the women’s team in the same event also won a bronze medal, announcing the revival of Korean roller skating.
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In the 10-meter air pistol mixed shooting event, Won-ho Lee and Bomi Kim defeated the Japanese team and took third place on the podium.
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″I felt a little sorry that I couldn’t go to the gold medal match… I wanted to repay the favor by doing well in the finals, but I’m very happy that it went as well as I thought.″
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In Uzbekistan’s traditional martial art ‘Kurashi’, a sport that is unfamiliar to us, Kwon Jae-deok and Jeong Jun-yong each won bronze medals, becoming the first Korean athletes to be named medalists in this event.
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Woo Ha-ram, a leading Korean diving athlete, took second place in the 3-meter springboard diving final along with Lee Jae-kyung.
With this silver medal, Woo Ha-ram has won his ninth medal at the Asian Games.
Today, the competition will already reach its turning point.
Our players’ challenges are also reaching their peak.
This is Minhyung Kim from MBC News in Hangzhou.
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2023-09-30 22:04:28
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