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Our team starts hunting for medals from today (the 5th). The strongest short track team will challenge for a gold medal in the new mixed relay event.



Reporter Seo Dae-won reports.



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The mixed relay, which will make its debut at the Olympics, will be held today for the first time among short track tracks.



It is a race of two men and four men, running over 2,000 meters in a row, and requires sprinting throughout the race, from the first runner to the last runner.



Our team is preparing for a decisive battle with six mixed relay entries including male and female aces Choi Min-jung and Hwang Dae-heon, as well as Kim A-rang, Lee Yu-bin, Lee Jun-seo, and Park Jang-hyuk.



A strong competitor is the home team China, which coach Kim Seon-tae, who coached our team at the Pyeongchang Olympics, and Victor Ahn and Hyun-soo Ahn joined as coaching staff.



[Hwang Dae-heon/Short Track National Team: If you show everything you have prepared, I believe your results will follow you well, and if you do short track, I will try my best to make the word Korea come out again.]



Short track, which has harvested 24 gold medals in past Olympics From the first day onwards, if we open up the gold chain for medals, our team's medal hunting will be further boosted.



Chaewon Lee, the oldest cross-country athlete at the age of 41, will compete in the women's 15km skiathlon today and will perform at the Winter Olympics for the sixth time in a row.



The players who arrived later than the main camp also started full-scale adaptation training.



Cha Jun-hwan, a male figure skater who competes in the Olympics for the second time in a row, trained for the first time with coach Brian Orser, and speed skater Seung-hoon Lee, who is challenging for the 6th medal, the most in the history of a Korean athlete at the Winter Olympics, also started adapting to the ice quality of the Olympic track.