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May 5, 2026
⛸️ Speed Skating Queen Kim Min-sun's New Challenge Towards the 2030 Alps! - 2026.05.05
Hello, speed skating fans! Speed Skating Mania is here! 😆
Recently, there is a lot of news full of the burning passion and new challenges of our national speed skating athletes. Let's dive right into the stories of our athletes breaking their limits on the ice! 🚀
🎯 Kim Min-sun Aims Straight for the 2030 Alps Olympics
Our speed skating ace Kim Min-sun had a deep interview along with short track athlete Park Ji-won on April 24th at the Next Creative office in Seoul [1].
Kim Min-sun dominated the 500m in the 1st to 6th World Cup events of the 2022-2023 season, sweeping 5 gold medals and reaching World No. 1 [1]. Also, she raised high expectations by winning two gold medals at the Harbin Asian Winter Games last year in 2025 [1]. However, at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics held this year, she unfortunately failed to enter the medal zone in both the 500m and 1,000m [1].
But our Kim Min-sun never gives up! She attempted bold training methods before the Olympics, changing her physical biorhythm and routines, and she says she absolutely does not regret this process [1]. Rather, she has stood at the starting line again, making the 2030 Alps Winter Olympics her final Olympic challenge in life [1]. In particular, she recently started short track training, which involves curved track practice, to significantly improve her cornering records. Isn't her future transformation so exciting? [1]
✨ The Sweat, Tears, and Miracles of the Ice Queens
The journey Kim Min-sun took to reach her current position is also becoming a hot topic again. The touching story of her silently enduring injuries, frustration, and a long 2-year rehabilitation to achieve 5 consecutive World Cup victories, standing proudly under her own name beyond being the '2nd Lee Sang-hwa', is warming the hearts of fans [2].
This indomitable will seems to have been passed down from Lee Sang-hwa, Korea's first female speed skating Olympic gold medalist. When no one expected a gold medal, she endured the exact same intensity of training as the male athletes every day at 4 AM, creating a miracle of 0.05 seconds—the beginning of a legend! [3] I want to give another round of applause to the blood-sweating efforts of our ice queens 👏
🔥 The Secret to 70 km/h? Extreme Training Methods!
Then, what kind of training do athletes do to achieve such incredible speed on the ice? Recently, 'resistance band training' videos of professional skaters have been drawing huge attention [4]. It is a training method where they skate while controlling their movements with high intensity by tying a resistance band around their waist, pushing their strength and endurance to the limit [5]. When they take off this band and run, they reach an astonishing speed of 50 km/h up to 70 km/h! Can you feel how amazing the athletes' power is? ⚡ [4] [5]
Let's all cheer until the end so that the drops of sweat our athletes shed can bear dazzling fruit next season and at the Alps in 2030! Speed Skating Mania will be back next week with more fun news! ⛸️💙
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