Bobsleigh pilot Kim Jin-su has been to the Olympics before, but this time, he arrived in Italy confident that the team would win a medal, and his season leading up to the Games made a strong case.
Two Korean teams both sat outside contention at the halfway mark of the four-man bobsleigh event at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Saturday.
A pair of four-man bobsleigh teams will be the only Korean athletes in action at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Sunday, the last day of the quadrennial competition.
Both Korean teams competing in the two-man bobsleigh at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics finished outside the top 10 on Tuesday.
More than three decades after “Cool Runnings” (1993) turned Jamaica’s bobsleigh team into a pop-culture symbol, the country is heading back to the Olympics — riding a sleigh loaned by Korea and with a résumé that now includes international victories.
The Korean bobsleigh team is ready to sprint off into victory by taking a page out of a seemingly unlikely book, the Jamaican runner Usain Bolt.
Won Yun-jong and Kim Jin-su finished the men's two-man bobsleigh in 19th place with a combined time of 4 minutes and 1.24 seconds at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre in Beijing on Tuesday.
Pilot Won Yun-jong and brakeman Kim Jin-su finished in 16th place after the first two heats of the two-men bobsleigh on Monday at Yanqing National Sliding Centre.
Women’s monobob makes its Olympic debut at the Beijing Games and Kim Yoo-ran will become Korea’s first-ever female monobob athlete. Last December, Kim won the IBSF Europe Cup women’s monobob gold medal.
The Korean four-man bobsleigh team, piloted by Won Yun-jong, front, starts a race during the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Sunday.
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