Park Ji-won, Who Missed Out on a Medal due to a Foul by Hwang Dae-heon, said, "I Didn't have time to Control my Body"

Dae-heon Hwang, who fouled Ji-won Park for two consecutive days at the World Championships, was kicked out without an interview.

Park Ji-won (Seoul City Hall), who missed the gold medal at the World Championships due to a collision with Hwang Dae-heon (Gangwon Provincial Office), could not hide his disappointment.

After failing to win a medal due to a foul by Hwang Dae-heon in the men's 1,000m final at the 2024 International Skating Union (ISU) Short Track World Championships held at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands on the 18th (Korean time), Park Ji-won said, "Yesterday (after the race) there were no variables. 온라인카지노

“I promised to make the game better, but another variable arose,” he said, adding, “I will work hard to prevent something like this from happening in the future.”

When asked to explain the crash scene, he said, "I was unconscious, but I felt like I was being pulled and I didn't have time to control my body.

So I hit the fence and my body received a huge shock.

For a moment, I couldn't stand clearly" he said.

When told that he was continuing to have problems with his teammates, he responded, "I don't think I have anything to say."

Hwang Dae-heon, who fouled Park Ji-won for two days in a row, did not respond to an interview request.

Park Ji-won fell due to a foul by Dae-heon Hwang in the men's 1,000m final held on this day and failed to win a medal, and also failed to win a medal after colliding with Dae-heon Hwang in the men's 1,500m final held on the 17th.

The ISU referees all pointed out Dae-Heon Hwang's mistakes and awarded a penalty.

Dae-heon Hwang also committed a serious foul by pushing Ji-won Park from behind in the final of the second 1,000m race at the first ISU World Cup held in October last year.

At that time, Hwang Dae-heon was given a yellow card (YC) and all points were forfeited.

Park Ji-won, who failed to win a medal at this competition, also missed the opportunity to be automatically selected for the national team for next season.

The national team for the next season will automatically be selected among domestic male and female athletes at the World Championships based on their overall ranking, but the athlete must win a gold medal in at least one individual event.

Now Park Ji-won must face fierce competition when she competes in her domestic tryouts to be held next month.

If she is not selected for the national team for the 2024-2025 season, Park Ji-won will not be able to compete in the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games.

Park Ji-won is the star of Korean short track racing, ranked first in the world in the ISU World Cup series this season following the 2022-2023 season.

Hwang Dae-heon, a gold medalist at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, maintained his position as the number one member of the national team, but did not participate in the national team selection event last year, saying he wanted to take a break, and faltered this season due to injury.

Due to a series of fouls by Hwang Dae-heon, the Korean national team finished this tournament with a poor performance of one gold medal and one silver medal.

Ahn Jung-hyeon, coach of the short track team, said, “The male athletes are competitive enough, but it is disappointing that their results are not good.”

Kim Gil-li (Seongnam City Hall), the ace of the women's national team who won the gold medal in the women's 1,500m and the silver medal in the women's 1,000m, said, "I was quite satisfied with the results in the individual competition," and added, "I gained a lot of experience through this competition, and I hope to grow further through this experience."

“I will show you,” he said.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiaojun (Korean name Lim Hyo-jun), who was active as a Korean short track star but chose to naturalize in China due to an unfortunate incident with Hwang Dae-heon, won gold medals in the men's 500m, men's 5,000m relay, and mixed 2,000m relay at this competition.

Lin Xiaojun said, "I won a gold medal at the World Championships (individual competition) for the first time in five years, but it was difficult to get to this point.

I prepared hard with the feeling of being at the top and then starting again from the beginning, and I feel like my efforts paid off."

“It’s good,” he said.