On April 25, Beijing time, according to a number of foreign media reports, South Korean Kim Jae-you (Kim Jae-youl) became a popular candidate for the next president of the International Skating Union, which aroused strong concern among netizens.
According to reports, Kim Jae-woo is a member of the Council of the International Skating Union and will run for president of the International Skating Federation Congress in Phuket in early June. Kim Jae-woo, 53, served as president of the Korean Skating Union from 2011 to 2016, in addition to vice president of the Korean Olympic Committee. At the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Kim Jae-woo was appointed Executive Vice Chairman of the Organizing Committee. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Kim Jae-woo participated as a member of the Coordination Committee. Kim's campaign, backed by the Korean Skating Union and, combined with his past resume, is seen as a popular candidate to succeed Dutchman Digema, who announced his resignation as president of the International Skating Federation after six years at the helm.
If South Korean Kim Jae-woo is successfully elected as the president of the International Skating Federation, the impact on the Chinese short track speed skating team will undoubtedly be enormous. Winter Olympic champion Wang Meng has more than once angrily rebuked South Korean athletes for repeatedly blackhand when participating in tv program recordings, and the helpless scenes of Chinese athletes being targeted by referees at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics are still vividly remembered. Counting the grievances of the Chinese and Korean short track speed skating teams, it is inevitable to worry about what kind of targeting the Chinese team will encounter if the South Koreans take the helm of the International Skating Federation. You know, in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, in order to avoid the South Korean team's black hand, dozens of high-speed cameras were installed in the short track speed skating field, and the South Korean athletes were indeed captured with many secret fouls. As a result, the Korean team also filed a complaint with the International Skating Federation. However, his delegation's complaint had not been admissible. But if a South Korean is replaced as the chairman, it is inevitable to worry that the short track speed skating arena will return to the dark days of the past when Korean players fouled and were not punished for a long time in the future.