BEIJING -- After three days' worth of races, South Korea finally has its first gold medal in short track speed skating at Beijing 2022. On Friday, Choi Min-jeong will try to add to that total. Choi, the double gold medalist from PyeongChang 2018, will compete in the quarterfinals of the women's 1,000m at Capital Indoor Stadium, with the semifinals and the final also scheduled for later in the e...

A day after winning its first medal of Beijing 2022, South Korea finally collected its first gold medal in the Chinese capital Wednesday. Hwang Dae-heon captured the men's 1,500m short track speed skating title at Capital Indoor Stadium, for South Korea's first gold in Beijing and its first short track medal of any color here. Hwang narrowly beat Steven Dubios of Canada, 2:09.219 to 2:09.254. ...

Hours after being disqualified from the men's 1,000m short track speed skating race at Beijing 2022 on Monday, South Korean Hwang Dae-heon posted a quote from Michael Jordan on his Instagram. It read: "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." In winning the 1,500m gold medal at Capital...

Hwang Dae-heon couldn't have imagined a worse start to Beijing 2022, his second Winter Olympics. Last Saturday at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, the South Korean short track speed skater and his mixed relay team crashed out of the quarterfinals. Two days later, Hwang, along with a teammate Lee June-seo, were sent packing from the semifinals of the men's 1,000m on what many angry South Korean...

South Korean short track speed skater Hwang Dae-heon captured gold in the men's 1,500m at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday, bouncing back from a recent officiating controversy for the country's first gold in the Chinese capital. Hwang edged out Steven Dubois of Canada for his first Olympic gold at Capital Indoor Stadium. Semen Elistratov of the Russian Olympic Committee took bronze. Hwang came in 2:09...

South Korean short track speed skater Hwang Dae-heon captured gold in the men's 1,500m at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday, bouncing back from a recent officiating controversy for the country's first gold in the Chinese capital. Hwang edged out Steven Dubois of Canada for his first Olympic gold at Capital Indoor Stadium. Semen Elistratov of the Russian Olympic Committee took bronze. This is the second...

The Chinese Embassy in Seoul expressed "grave concern" Wednesday over the accusations of favorable judging for the Chinese team in a short track speed skating competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Two South Korean skaters -- Lee June-seo and Hwang Dae-heon -- were disqualified in the semifinals of the men's 1,000-meter race Monday night, with Chinese competitors reaching the finals. It ca...

BEIJING -- South Korean leaders at Beijing 2022 met virtually with senior international skating officials Wednesday to express their concerns about the state of refereeing in short track speed skating. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee said Lee Kee-heung, its president and a member of the International Olympic Committee, and Yoon Hong-geun, head of the athletic mission and of the Korea Skatin...

BEIJING -- In figure skating today, it's the numbers game that people play. The current International Skating Union (ISU) judging system assigns points to technical elements in skaters' programs, such as jumps and spins. This is all designed to eliminate room for subjectivity in scoring, in response to some damaging judging scandals from the past. Perhaps in an unintended side effect of this sh...

Figure skater Cha Jun-hwan will try to make a piece of South Korean Olympic history Thursday when he takes the ice for the men's singles free skate at Beijing 2022. Cha finished Tuesday's short program in fourth place with 99.51 points, his new personal best. Shoma Uno of Japan, the reigning silver medalist, is in third at 105.90 points. Cha will be hard pressed to close that seemingly small ga...

BEIJING -- South Korean speed skater Kim Min-seok is his own toughest critic. He doesn‘t usually pat himself on the back. Not even winning a second straight Olympic bronze medal, as he did in Beijing on Tuesday, changed that. Kim earned bronze in the men’s 1,500m race of Beijing 2022 with a time of 1:44.24. Kjeld Nuis, who skated next to Kim in the 11th pair out of 14 at the National Speed S...

BEIJING -- Speed skater Kim Min-seok brought South Korea its first medal of Beijing 2022 on Tuesday, grabbing bronze for his second consecutive Olympics. Kim finished the men‘s 1,500m race at the National Speed Skating Oval in 1:44.24, 1.03 seconds back of the champion, Kjeld Nuis of the Netherlands. Another Dutch skater, Thomas Krol, took the silver medal in 1:43.55. At PyeongChan...

The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee’s urgent press conference in Beijing, held to protest biased officiating, fell far short of the goal of raising the issue internationally, if that had been a goal at all. The committee conducted the press conference at the Beijing Olympics Main Media Center on Tuesday. The purpose was to announce its plan to file an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sp...

The appeal with CAS is Korea’s first since 2004 Olympics; ISU rejected protest on short skater’s penalty

Amid South Korean anger over “biased” refereeing toward Chinese competitors at short track speedskating races, a South Korean-born coach of the Chinese team spoke out. In a lengthy message posted on his Instagram in the wee hours of Tuesday, Victor An, who was Ahn Hyun-soo before becoming a naturalized Russian citizen in 2011, pleaded not to attack his family members for his choices and what’s h...