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Viktor Ahn, known until 2011 as Ahn Hyun-soo, the most titled Olympic level in the world of Short Track after announcing a few weeks from the withdrawal from 'activity greets Russia under whose flag has played in the last 7 seasons.
Wednesday 26 September 2018 4 minutes reading time
The best Olympic palmares of the discipline: despite the complex relationship with the Olympic appointments after the failure to qualify in Vancouver 2010 for the serious knee injury that kept him away from the ice for more than a year and the exclusion from PyeongChang 2018 related to the controversial IOC's provisions on the doping-Russia case, Ahn Hyun-soo remains the smallest skater on the tarmac under the five circles. After having participated sixteen to the carambola that launched Steve Bradbury on the highest step of the podium in Salt Lake City, the boy from Seoul, born in 1985, in 2006 in Turin took the podium in all four races of the program with the three Olympic titles in 1000, 1500 and in the relay and the Bronze medal in the 500 meters.
Tre Ori (500, 1000 and relay) and a Bronze in the 1500s arrive for him also 8 years later at the Sochi Olympics to which he presented himself under the Russian flag following a controversial change of nationality which sounded like an indictment against him poor support offered by the South Korean Federation to the discipline.
With the podiums obtained in 2014, the then Viktor Ahn reaches with 8 medals at the top of the medal table of the discipline the legendary US Apolo Anton Ohno, which however boasts only two gold medals against the six of the Korean national Russian. A loot that Viktor Ahn had in mind to increase at PyeongChang, Games from which he was excluded for his presence on the lists of Gregory Rodchenkov, mole of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency.
After having played the role of coach and athlete in the last four years, Ahn over the summer, announced the withdrawal, has refused a role in the Russian technical cadres deciding to return home. In recent days, the champion through the profile on VK, the largest Russian social media, the Federation greeted and thanked the Russian fans: "I want to thank all those who have supported and believed in me in all these years with the Russian team. that the team continues to do well and I wish all the guys great results.Your path with you was very difficult but very lucky and I thank everyone for this ".
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