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Cha Jun-hwan, a Korean male figure skater, took the first place in the national championship with a perfect four-round jump and took to the Olympic stage for the second time in a row. In the women's division, Yoo Young achieved her dream of participating in the Olympics for the first time by placing first.
Correspondent Kim Hyung-yeol.
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Cha Jun-hwan flew toward Beijing with the melody of the opera Turandot.
The jump in the first 4 rounds was the highlight.
The first task, the quadruple toe loop, was perfectly executed, and the subsequent quadruple salcho was also lightly successful.
With just two jumps, I added up to 25 points.
Cha Jun-hwan, who performed difficult jumps up to the triple axel without any mistakes, was slightly shaken in the second half of the continuous jump, but he finished his performance neatly with the highest level in both steps and spin.
He broke his personal best with 185.00 points in free skating, with a total of 283.31 points, and won an Olympic ticket by winning overwhelmingly 1st place with a total score of 522.47 points in the first and second rounds.
From his junior days to the adult stage, Cha Jun-hwan, who has continuously changed the history of Korean male figure skating, vowed to make a new history in Beijing.
[Cha Jun-hwan/figure skating national team: I think I got a little bit stronger after the Pyeongchang Olympics. I want to play a cleaner, more error-free game, and a game with no regrets.]
Si-hyeong Lee, who successfully achieved a quadruple salcho, went to the Olympics with Cha Jun-hwan.
In the women's division, Yooyoung took 1st place.
Yoo Young-eun, who won first place in the national championship four years ago, but could not participate in the Pyeongchang Olympics due to age restrictions, made her first Olympic stage at the age of 18 with the triple axel as her main weapon.
After fierce competition with Lee Hae-in, Kim Ye-rim took the 2nd place ticket to Beijing.