As of today, South Korea has collected 10 medals total in short-track skating, 5 of them being gold. Bliss….
If there are two sports arenas I could attend it would be tennis (obviously) and short-track skating. Thanks to Apolo and the Korean speed skaters. In this year’s Vancouver’s Olympics, the acutely frightening Koreans are in the house to WIN. Why shouldn’t I cheer for my fellow relatives as they converted short-track skating into the new transformation of gold medal fiery. Someone told me the other day that, like Nadia Comaneci in 1976 Olympics, SK skaters are indistructable humanoids.
I say, these guys not only win but terminate other skaters in thin air. Imagine your heart compounding with painful palpitation while witnessing the speed skating finals where Lee Jung Su haunts Apolo from behind like a laser beam. (I almost fainted three times while watching the race). Then Lee vanished ahead to the finish line like the Matrix. You can’t help but appreciate Lee Jung Su’s serpent-like mastery.
It’s uncanny how all Korean skaters either start from last or middle of the competition before they zero in on their prey and attack to the finishing line. Even though the Korean skaters appear to be aggressive, that is far from the truth.. These guys have figured out the formula, and they are mathematically strategic in their pacing and navigation. And their SPEED & AGILITY…. Holy kimchi.
No, we Koreans can’t run like the Kenyans, or jump like the Lakers, but we can ice.
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