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The Beijing Winter Paralympic Games will close shortly after the 10-day event.

Unfortunately, our team finished the competition without medals, but the reduced support and failure to change generations after the Pyeongchang Games were painful.



Correspondent Lee Seong-hoon.



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Jung Seung-hwan, who has been playing an active role as the main striker of the ice hockey team for 16 years, kept the ice until the end even after he was stabbed in the neck by a stick in the bronze medal match against China.



This year, 42-year-old Pyeongchang Paralympic cross-country gold medalist Shin Eui-hyeon and 2002 alpine skiing silver medalist Han Sang-min, 43, also made their way through the snow.



The fighting spirit of the elders was dazzling, but the fact that the generational change failed because they could not raise a successor was painful.



As a result of the rapid decline in interest and support after the Pyeongchang Games, our team received the heartbreaking report card of no medals for the first time in 8 years since the 2014 Games.



[Jeong Jin-wan / President of Korea Paralympic Sports Complex: Not a single winter business team was created after Pyeongchang.

The promise to build an ice hockey rink was not kept...

If the budget is not supported, you can't do it with your heart alone.]



Young athletes who made their Paralympic debuts, such as Sara Choi of alpine skiing and Je-hyeok Lee of snowboarding, kept the spark of hope.



China, which had only one medal in the Winter Paralympic Games until the Pyeongchang Games, swept 61 medals with great support and took the overall first place.



The 13th Winter Paralympic Games will conclude a ten-day battle with a closing ceremony shortly afterward.



(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho, video editing: Woo-jung Woo)