The Beijing Winter Olympics, a major global sports event, has come to an end, but some of the things that happened around the Beijing Winter Olympics are still in everyone's attention. For Chinese audiences who care about short track speed skating, whether Korean head coach Kim Sun-tae will continue to coach the Chinese team and how he and Ahn Hyun-so will fare after returning to South Korea are all questions worth paying attention to. Recently, Kim Sun-tae was interviewed by South Korean television and for the first time made an official response to the concerns of the audience.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese short track speed skating team performed well, especially in the opening stage, winning consecutive gold medals in the mixed relay 2000 meters and men's 1000 meters. Among them, head coach Kim Sun-tae from South Korea and Ahn Hyun-so from Russia are not small. However, due to the relationship between the two and South Korea, they are not accustomed to many Korean netizens. Especially at the men's short track 1000m final, they hugged and celebrated with the gold medal-winning Ren Ziwei, but turned a blind eye to the disqualified South Korean athletes in sight. Therefore, these two people were once called "traitors" by South Korean netizens.
As the game ended, Kim Sun-tae and Ahn Hyun-so also returned to South Korea. Recently, Kim Sun-tae was interviewed by South Korean TELEVISION STATION CBS and talked about the issues that many netizens were interested in. First, there is the question of him and Ahn Hyun-so being blamed by South Korean netizens. Kim Sun-tae said: "After much deliberation, I finally decided to stand up and speak up, and I can fully accept the accusations, especially the main competitors who coach the Korean team, I am ready to be blamed." Ahn Hyun-so and I also said that if you do your best, accept any accusations. ”
From Kim Sun-tae's words, we can see that as a South Korean, he is still very familiar with the situation of netizens in his country. Therefore, he has long known that if he takes over the Chinese team, he will definitely be insulted by accusations, but this career has also made his psychology stronger, and he directly told Ahn Hyun-so: Accept any accusations.
The reason why South Korean netizens will have such a big opinion on Kim Sun-tae and Ahn Hyun-so is that in the opening stage, the Chinese team performed well, and the South Korean team could not even touch the side of the medal, and their brother Hwang Dae-hyun was also cancelled due to fouls in the competition. Kim Sun-tae said of the refereeing question: "I don't know what to say to Daehyeon, he is a player I have coached and trained with, I am in a bad mood for him to lose the 1000 meters qualification, but he won the gold medal in the 1500 meters, and I congratulate him." Penalty? It's the referee's responsibility, and I can't say if it's right or not. As for the questioning of the penalty, Kim Shantai responded with the chinese team's encounter at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics: "If there is a vague penalty, the party who may be punished will feel uncomfortable, but in the men's 1000 meters of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, China's Han Tianyu was also convicted of fouls, and nearly 100,000 Chinese netizens were not satisfied at the time." "I have to say that Kim Sun-tae in South Korea is indeed courageous.
Then, when talking about South Korean netizens and media accusations and doubts about them, Kim Sun-tae said that he was very chilled: "I tried not to watch Korean news, but many bad voices made me very chilled." When it comes to questions about Kim Sun-tae bringing the KUM's recipe for success to China, Kim Sun-tae responded: "I only officially took the position of head coach of the Chinese short track speed skating team last October, so I can't change too much, generally maintain the training method of the Chinese national team, and give some advice." ”
Finally, Kim Sun-tae gave advice that many Korean netizens should feel uncomfortable. Kim Sun-tae said: "Only by doing a good job can we improve the status of the Korean short track speed skating team and bring opportunities to the younger generations." This suggestion is actually correct, but it also shows Kim Sun-tae's attitude from another side, that is, if only by blaming the referee and the way of blaming the opponent, then the Korean short track speed skating team is unlikely to be respected and the status of the team is improved. However, as for whether to continue to coach the Chinese team, Jin Shantai did not give an answer, and the answer is not known at present.