In the recent Beijing Winter Olympics, we saw that the Chinese and South Korean teams had a fierce competition in the short track speed skating event. As the home team against the Chinese team, the short-track speed skaters also completed the suppression of the Korean team in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and got a good result of 2 gold and 1 silver. It can be said that in the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team won in an all-round way and played a very good style.
However, on the Korean short track team, we also saw that in the case of poor overall performance, they were not convinced. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, the South Korean players also made some incomprehensible criticisms of the Winter Olympics. Including questions about the food, questions about the playing field, these show the small belly chicken intestines of the Korean team. As a famous player of the Korean short track team, Huang Daxian even frantically complained about the Chinese short track team after returning home after the end of this Winter Olympics, and indeed some could not afford to lose. In such a situation, for the Korean short track team, they must be thinking of being able to play in the later stages. Another wave of strength can surpass the Chinese short track team in some competitions and regain some face for the South Korean team. And in fact, for the Korean short track team, there is actually a good opportunity in April. This opportunity is the World Championships held by the International Skating Union in Canada from April 8 to 10 this year. Then, as a game with sufficient gold content, this tournament is indeed a good opportunity for the Korean team to turn around, and the Chinese short track team has announced its withdrawal from the game. Therefore, the South Korean team can fully use this competition to make a big fuss and regain its position on the stage of the International Skating Federation.
This is also an absolute goal of the Korean short track team, but just when the South Korean team is full of energy and wants to make a difference in the World Championships to start a turnaround battle, the Korean short track team has suffered a major blow and a huge bad news has been delivered. Then at 19:00 last night, the South Korean team confirmed the news that Hwang Dae-hyun, the core member of the short track team, was diagnosed with a positive covid-19 before going abroad to compete, confirming his personal emergency. Then this did bring a big blow to the South Korean team, because after Hwang Daehyun was diagnosed positive according to the requirements, he could not follow the short track team to participate in the World Championships. And the game is about to start, and it is impossible to recover in such a fast time according to his diagnosis time. Therefore, the explosion of this news means that Huang Daxian will not play with the team. As the absolute No. 1 seeded player of the Korean short track team, Huang Daxian's absence will inevitably directly affect the results of the South Korean team this time, so that the Goal of the Korean team to pass the World Championships is hit hard, even if the Chinese team withdraws, they do not want to get good results.
And this time the diagnosis of the new crown, in fact, the impact is not only this game, but also a fairly fatal blow for Huang Daxian himself. Because according to the rules of the Korean short track team, every year in the team, there will be a male and a female two athletes directly to win the national team place, and these two athletes are the highest ranking athletes participating in the World Championships. So now, after Huang Daxian's failure to qualify for the World Championships, it means that in the new year, he lost the direct opportunity to qualify for the South Korean national short track team. And the South Korean team can't change the policies because of him, after all, these policies are not a joke. Of course, after this, Huang Daxian can also compete for the national team place through the national selection competition of the South Korean team at the end of the month. However, after the confirmation of the new crown, when Huang Daxian will resume is still a question, and it is difficult for him to maintain a 100% state after the recovery is over. Therefore, in the selection competition, Huang Daxian will also be strongly impacted and challenged by domestic players. It is very likely that they will be directly eliminated by accident and miss the national team.
And once this is the case, it will be really troublesome for Huang Daxian personally, then it is very likely that because of this incident, he will completely miss the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics. Therefore, this diagnosis is indeed a sunny thunderbolt in Huang Daxian's career. However, in view of Huang Daxian's previous rude behavior, as a domestic sports fan, we can only say a good word.