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While the men's short track team took a silver medal in the final comeback in the men's 5000m relay final, the last runner, Captain Park Ji-won, threw a 'finger ceremony' to a Chinese athlete is a hot topic.
In the men's 5000m relay final of the second round of the 2022-2023 International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on the 7th, Korean time, the men's national team was Park Ji-won (Seoul City Hall), Hong Kyung-hwan, Lim Yong-jin (Goyang City Hall), Kim Tae-seong (Goyang City Hall), Dankook University) participated and won a silver medal.
The gold medal was won by the Canadian national team and the bronze medal was taken by the Chinese national team.
On this day, the national team was pushed to 4th place with 31 laps left, but overtook China with 8 laps left and climbed to 2nd place.
After that, the national team, which kept 3rd place with China, took the silver medal at 6 minutes 36 seconds 539 with Captain Park Ji-won leaving one last lap and perfectly overtaking China with an exquisite out course.
At this time, Jiwon Park's 'Finger Ceremony' attracted many people's attention.
After overtaking, he looked back and acted like he was waving his left index finger towards the Chinese player.
Park Ji-won said of this finger ceremony, "I made this gesture in the sense of not to use my hand when a Chinese player continues to use his hand during the game to foul."
The netizens who saw the video showed exhilarating reactions such as "Park Ji-won did Park Ji-won", "Thank you for showing that fouls are not skills", "coolness exploded", etc.
Meanwhile, Park Ji-won won a gold medal in the men's 1000m final in the second short track World Cup, and three gold medals in the men's 1500m, mixed relay 2000m, and men's relay 5000m in the first World Cup.