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The young Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik have centered the pass in figure skating. How will Marshal Kim Jong-un, grandson of the founder of the North Korean regime, Kim Il-sung, be the one who ... asked the boycott of the 1988 Seoul Games?
Friday 6 October 2017 7 minutes reading time
And now? Change everything, will not change anything? The topic has been filling newspapers and newspapers, including local newspapers, all over the world, as often happens when sport is interspersed with politics and the horizon is the Olympics. What happened? Simply because a pair of North Korean skaters, Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik, got the pass for Five Pings for the PyeongChang 2018 Games, which, as is well known, will take place in Korea, but in the south by 9 to February 25, 2018. It's a news, no doubt.
Meanwhile, because the popular Democratic Republic of Korea, the real name of the nation, has a good tradition in the Summer Olympics (it has 47 medals in total, of which 14 in gold, in 16 disciplines, from Munich '72 to today, with the part of the Lion who is tasked with lifting weights and judo in individual disciplines), but is far less competitive in winter, where so far from Innsbruck 1964 to Sochi 2014 he has only split two medals and qualified the misery of 62 athletes (or pairs or teams), climbing on the podium in long track and short track skating (last laurel won, 25 years ago at Albertville 1992, right on the short ring). And then, without going into foreign affairs matters, as we are dealing here with each other, the relations between the two countries, already in the war between 1950 and 1953 (the War of Korea, a conflict that was also included in the " interior of the USSRSS Cold War with respective blocks) are not exactly at the top of the historic ones. Rather.
Talking about the political turnaround for two young skaters racing (if allowed) in South Korea is still excessive, but remains a significant figure. Ryom-Kim's qualification, her 18-year-old 25-year-old skater figure, became reality in Bavaria and would currently represent the only North Korean presence in the upcoming Winter Games. For some media, even foreigners, is already the ticket for the Olympic truce, but it is better to come up with our feet with lead. Meanwhile, we hope that Marshal Kim Jong-Un, that of repeated nuclear testing, lets race the two young guys, but so far nothing to make the opposite is leaked by Pyongyang. City not to be confused with PyeongChang, a few tens of kilometers from the 38th parallel. South Korean authorities have repeatedly called for calls and invitations to send a representative to the Games for months, but the late reply is coming.
The couple prepared themselves for the qualifying race, held in Germany, training in Canada under the advice of a home choreographer, Julie Marcotte, who at the end of their exercise broke out in tears: "I had preconceived ideas about Korea of the North - reads the Corriere della Sera - but this couple of young people have tried the opposite of me. By the way, I learned to give me an opinion based on what I see, not to hear. " Seoul celebrated, primarily President Moon Jae-in, who repeated his request to the IOC to facilitate North Korea's participation in any way. PyeongChang County is located 180 km east of Seoul, but only 70km from the demilitarized area that shoulder the peninsula. Thirty years ago, as mentioned, Seoul hosted the Summer Games, those of Ben Johnson's doping, but also the six Kristin Otto's gold medals in the swim (East Germany), Gelindo Bordin, Abbagnale (3) brothers, Parisi, Cerioni, Maenza for Italy. Well, Kim Il-sung, founder of the North Korean regime and grandfather of Kim Jong-un, ordered boycotting ...
We hope the story does not repeat itself. In the case, we can also say thanks to Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik, the couple who perform at the pace of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" and "A Day in the Life" of the Beatles, the song-myth that closes St. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band, the album voted by RollingStone magazine as the best ever in rock history.
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