‘Green light’ securing 3 tickets to participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics
Kim Ye-rim (18, Surigo) and Lee Hae-in (16, Sehwa Girls’ High School) were ranked 5th and 8th in the Women’s Single Short Program at the International Ice Skating Federation (ISU) World Ice Skating Championships (ISU). Kim Ye-rim received a technical score of 40.07 and an art score of 33.56, a total of 73.63 at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden on the night of the 24th (Korean time). It is 4.18 points higher than Kim Ye-rim’s official high score (69.45) written in 2018. Kim Ye-rim, who started acting in line with Franz Liszt’s’Love Dream’, performed all the acting tasks neatly. The triple lutz-triple toe loop combination jump, double axel, and triple flip were put in a stable posture. In addition, he finished acting by performing a step sequence (level 3), a changefoot combination spin (level 4), and a seat spin (level 4) in sequence.
Lee Hae-in, who debuted on the senior stage, ranked 8th with a technical score of 37.29, an art score of 31.65, and a total of 68.94. Lee Hae-in digested jumps and steps without difficulty in accordance with Franz Schubert’s song’Ave Maria’.
Free skating will be held on the 27th. The final ranking is hidden by combining the short and free. If Kim Ye-rim and Lee Ha-in’s final rankings are 13 or less, Korea will secure three tickets to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. If it is 14 to 28 or less, two cards will be given. In Korea, two people participated in the women’s singles at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
On the other hand, Anna Sherbakova of Russia with 81.00 points in first place, Rika Kihira of Japan with 79.08 points in second place, and Elizabeth Tuktami Sheva of Russia with 78.86 points in third place.
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