◀ anchor ▶
These are our proud athletes who won valuable medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In the midst of all kinds of territoriality and bias, our players and our people exerted more energy and gave a great gift to our people who were exhausted from the corona virus.
All the players of the national team who went beyond the limits with sweat and tears were our heroes.
The winter festival that soothed people around the world for 17 days will come to an end after a while.
Reporter Lee Myung-no is out at the closing ceremony.
Reporter, how is the atmosphere right now?
◀ reporter ▶
Yes, the closing ceremony will be held here at the National Stadium for 100 minutes from 9:00 our time.
Just like the opening ceremony, it will be held as simple as possible.
Looking at the rehearsal video of the closing ceremony that was released in advance, it seems that the LED screen will be mainly used this time similar to the opening ceremony.
Director Zhang Yimou, who was in charge of directing, asked us to pay attention to when the torch goes out.
It was predicted that the 2008 Summer Olympics would be reproduced to give a feeling of transcendence of time and space.
Our team is expected to have a total of 36 people participating in the closing ceremony, with speed skating silver medalist and Cha Min-kyu as the jockey.
◀ anchor ▶
In the beginning of the tournament, there were actually a lot of things that made us angry.
I was very worried about the biased judgment, but in the end, it performed better than expected.
◀ reporter ▶
Yes, with today’s bobsled game, all of our players’ schedules have been completed.
At the beginning of the tournament, the national anger was boiling over the biased judgment that was difficult to understand.
Hwang Dae-heon won the overwhelming first gold medal in the 1,500-meter race despite the misunderstanding, and Choi Min-jung, who suffered severe heartache due to the Shim Seok-hee scandal and injuries, also smiled broadly with one gold medal and two silver medals.
The medals our athletes won in this tournament were 2 gold medals, 5 silver medals, and 2 bronze medals.
But regardless of the medals, all the players who did their best were winners.
◀ anchor ▶
I can’t help but point out the controversy over hanbok at the opening ceremony.
There was a doping scandal in the middle, and there were a lot of controversies, right?
◀ reporter ▶
Yes, it started as a controversy from the opening ceremony.
As a woman wearing a hanbok carrying the five-star red flag appeared, criticism of China for using the Olympics to promote Korean culture as their own was fierce.
In addition, the short track judgment in favor of the host country, China, also led to a war of words between Korea and Chinese netizens.
The doping scandal in Balieva was also noisy.
Despite the fact that he was taking banned substances, he competed in competitions and faced international condemnation.
China is in an atmosphere of self-congratulation, saying that it was successful in preventing the corona virus with the best performance in the history of the Winter Olympics.
It is questionable whether the true Olympic values have been properly realized.
So far, this is Lee Myung-no from MBC News in Beijing.
Video coverage Lee Sung-jae / Video editing Jo Ara
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