Korean Olympic Speed Skating Champion Se-jong Oh, 33

(ATR) Former Olympic short track speed skating champion Se-jong Oh was killed in a motorcycle accident in Seoul, South Korea.

Guardar
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - OCTOBER 9: Oh Se-Jong (front) of South Korea competes at the men's 5000m relay final at the ISU World Cup Short Track Championship on October 9, 2005 in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea team won the event with a time of six minutes 47.235. China took the second place and Canada took the third place. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - OCTOBER 9: Oh Se-Jong (front) of South Korea competes at the men's 5000m relay final at the ISU World Cup Short Track Championship on October 9, 2005 in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea team won the event with a time of six minutes 47.235. China took the second place and Canada took the third place. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

(ATR) Former Olympic short track speed skating champion Se-jong Oh was killed when his motorcycle collided with a car in Seoul, South Korea on Monday.

The 33-year-old Oh was a member of South Korea’s gold medal winning 5000-meter relay team at the 2006 Torino Olympics.

Oh’s motorcycle crashed into a car making a u-turn in the Korean capital city, Yonshap News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Oh and his teammates overtook Canada on the final lap to claim victory in Torino. The Korean skater also competed in the 5000-meter relay at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

He was a seven-time world championship medalist, including two gold medals coming in 2003 and 2006.

The two-time Korean Olympian retired later in 2006 following the team’s gold medal performance.

Written by Brian Pinelli

Forgeneral comments or questions, click here.

20 Years at #1: Your best source of news about theOlympics is AroundTheRings.com, for subscribersonly.

Guardar

Últimas Noticias

Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons

Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left the feeling that the Italian and the Spaniard will shape the great duel that came to help us through the duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era.
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons

Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024

She is the third in her sport and the seventh athlete to achieve it in the same edition; in Santiago 2023 she was the first athlete with disabilities to compete at the Pan American level and won a medal.
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024

Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris

Argentinian Rodrigo Isgró received a five-game suspension for an indiscipline in the circuit’s decisive clash that would exclude him until the final or the bronze match; the Federation will seek to make the appeal successful.
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris

Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years

The Kenyan received the maximum sanction for irregularities in his biological passport and the Court considered that he was part of a system of “deliberate and sophisticated doping” to improve his performance. He will lose his record and the bronze medal at the Doha World Cup.
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years

Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”

The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case of the 23 positive controls before the Tokyo Games that were announced a few weeks ago and shook the swimming world. “I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low,” he said.
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”