The Korean short track team took first place overall with five gold medals, one silver medal, and four bronze medals at the 2022-2023 International Skating Union (ISU) 5th World Cup, which ended in Dresden, Germany on the 6th. In this tournament, he reaffirmed that he was the world’s strongest, but faced an unexpected ambush. This is Lin Xiaojun (Lim Hyo-jun, 27) who played in the Chinese national team uniform.
Xiaojun Lin showed explosive speed in the men’s 500m final that day, crossing the finish line first with a record of 41.329 seconds. It is the first time in about four years that Lin Xiaojun has won a gold medal on the international stage since the World Championships in March 2019, when he won four gold medals. After winning a gold medal for the first time after naturalizing in China in 2020, he was hugged by Chinese national team coach Zhang Jing and shed tears.
Xiaojun Lin led China to the gold medal in the men’s 5000m relay, which was held as the second runner. South Korea came in first, beating China by a wide margin in the semifinals, but was disqualified after the race and did not advance to the finals. 메이저놀이터
Lin Xiaojun, who won the gold medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and emerged as a Korean short track speed skater, was caught up in a sexual harassment case the following year. He was accused of pulling down the pants of a junior player of the same sex to expose body parts during physical training with his teammates. After a court battle, he was acquitted, but he was naturalized as a Chinese citizen when it became difficult for him to wear the Taegeuk mark after receiving a one-year suspension from the Korea Skating Federation.
After failing to win the individual event until the 4th World Cup this season, after winning two gold medals that day, he wrote on Instagram in English and Chinese, “After a long and difficult 4-year journey, I won the gold medal. I never gave up and tried harder. He posted a post saying, “I am grateful to everyone who believed in and supported me. Xiaojun Lin will have an unavoidable confrontation with Korean athletes at the ISU World Championships, which will open in Seoul on the 10th of next month.
Park Ji-won (27, Seoul City Hall), who emerged as a Korean men’s short track speed skater, added a gold medal in the second 1500m race that day, winning her 9th gold medal (7 individual, 1 relay, 1 mixed) in this season’s World Cup alone.