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Short track skaters Daeheon Hwang and Minjung Choi, who ran side by side in a golden race, today (17th) SBS met separately.

Let's hear the story of the 'two athletes who look alike' who have skated together since they were young and endured difficult times in the Olympics.



This is Correspondent Ha Seong-ryong.



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Hwang Dae-heon and Choi Min-jung, who visited the Olympic International Broadcasting Center in a cheerful manner, looked back at the Olympics calmly as if they had just laid down all their burdens.



[Choi Min-jung/Short track national team: Crying a lot and laughing a lot…

I have to say that there were a lot of joys and sorrows.]



[Hwang Dae-Hun/Short Track National Team: It seems like he has broken through the wall and he enjoys difficult things.]



Hwang Dae-Hun turned the crisis into an opportunity by thinking positively about the biased judgment at the beginning of the competition.



[Hwang Dae-heon/Short track national team: Because of that (biased) judgment, I think I played the 1,500m race so well (which won the gold medal).

So I think it's better (that I went through a crisis) rather.]



Choi Min-jung, who had a hard time before the Olympics, said that whenever she had a hard time, she took out her mother's letter and made up her mind, saying that her mother's love was a letter slightly revealed.



[Choi Min-jung / Short Track National Representative: She said that her mother can play the role of her friend, her co-worker, her mother, and any role...

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She seems to have a really strong side, so it gives me a lot of strength, and I read her mother's letter the day before the 1,500m race, and it feels like I won a gold medal, so it's great...

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The two players, who had been close since their youth team days, looked back at the photos at the time and recalled their memories,



[Choi Min-jung/Short Track National Team: It's a big hit.

I don't think there's much difference]



[Hwang Dae-heon/Short Track National Team: No, I'm pretty] In



Beijing, we also made new memories and supported each other.



[Choi Min-jung/short track national team: (Daeheon) is a gold medalist, so I asked him to take a (photo) with his 'fan heart'.

(After taking a commemorative photo) I think winning a gold medal is effective.]



[Hwang Dae-heon/short track national team: I think I have to work a little harder because I am a fan.

It was such an honor to take a picture with the gold medalist (Choi Min-jung).]



The two athletes who have grown up one step from this Olympics,



[Choi Min-jung/short track national team: I won]



[Hwang Dae-heon/short track national team: broke the wall]



Even after 4 years, we decided to laugh together again.



(Video coverage: Chan-soo Lee, video editing: Min-kyu Jeon)