2월 16일 스위스 컬링팀과의 경기에서 김은정 선수가 스톤을 던지고 있다.
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개인적으로 동계 올림픽 경기 종목 중에서
컬링 경기를 제일 좋아해서 시간이 허락하는대로
컬링 경기를 챙겨 보고 있다.
초반에 캐나다 Mixed Double(혼성팀)팀이 금메달을 따서
올림픽 초반부터 기분이 엄청 좋았다.
그리고 며칠 후에 시작된 남녀 팀 경기에서, 예상외로 한국 여자 팀이
세계 1, 2위에 랭킹된 캐나다와 스위스 팀을 비롯해서
세계의 정상을 달리는 우수한 팀을 하나씩 물리치고
최고의 예선 성적으로 본선에 진출한 한국 여자 컬링팀의
소식이 계속해서 전해졌다.
하지만, 미국과 캐나다 팀의 경기 위주로 중계를 해 주다보니
한국팀의 경기는 캐나다와 미국과 펼쳐진 두 게임밖에 보지 못했다.
그렇지만, 어제부터 내가 구독해 보는 다섯개의 신문에
일제히 한국 여자 '마늘소녀' (Garlic Girls) 컬링팀의
예상을 뒤엎은 연이은 우승 소식과 함께
그들의 고향 의성과, 의성의 특산물인 마늘을 소개하면서
그들의 닉네임이 되었던 배경과,그들이 다녔던 의성여고에 관한 기사들이
줄줄이 올라와서, 기대했던 캐나다 팀의 우승보다
더 감동적으로 다가왔다.
불과 몇년 전만 해도 컬링이 무엇인지도 모르는 나라에서
메달 획득을 코 앞에 둔 것도 대단하다고 칭찬과 놀라움을 드러냈는데,
특히 4명 다 성이 김씨여서, 외국에선 그들이 다 자매로 오해하는 것도 재미나고,
수퍼맨 클라크처럼 커다란 뿔테 안경을 쓴 이야기도 미소가 걸리고,
의성의 특산물인 마늘 덕분에 강한 팀을 물리쳤다는 기사와
의성 주민들의 격한 응원 모습을 다루면서
다들 동양의 자그마한 체구의 컬러들의 눈부신 활약에
놀라는 모습을 감추지 못하고 있다.
지금처럼 좋은 성적을 계속 밀고 나가서
한국 최초로 컬링 종목에 금메달을 목에 걸기를
멀리서 큰 응원을 보내고 싶다.
세계 주요 신문에 게재된
한국 여자 컬링 팀 기사를 발췌했습니다.
뉴욕 타임즈에서...
The New York Times
Garlic Girls Take Over the Olympics,
and Their Hometown Is Loving It
By SCOTT CACCIOLA and CHANG W. LEEFEB. 20, 2018
Uiseong Girls High School gym hosted a watch party
for the South Korean women’s curling team
when it faced the United States.
The team’s top four players graduated from the school.
Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
UISEONG, South Korea — They arrived from all corners of Uiseong County.
They brought homemade signs, waved flags and screamed for every shot.
They came to celebrate four young women from this farming community
who have emerged as the most unexpected (and most gloriously bespectacled)
stars of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
On Tuesday afternoon, townspeople gathered inside the gymnasium here
at Uiseong Girls High School to root for the South Korean women’s curling team,
whose match against the United States was shown on a big screen as an M.C. leaned
into a microphone and banged on a drum.
“I skip dinner whenever they’re playing,” said Chung Poong-ja, 75,
who danced on the gym floor once the South Koreans sealed their victory
against the Americans. “My focus needs to be on the match.”
Kim Sung-hee, 67, said, “I lost my voice from cheering so hard.”
It was the biggest, loudest party in the province, and for good reason:
The team’s top four players grew up in this small city of about 54,000 people
and graduated from this high school. Now, thanks to an improbable run
at the Olympics being held in Pyeongchang, about 80 miles to the north,
the team — dubbed the Garlic Girls by the Korean press,
owing to the region’s production of garlic —
seems on the cusp of international celebrity.
Never mind that the Garlic Girls, with their dominant record in pool play,
have vaulted themselves into medal position in a sport
that is still foreign to most South Koreans.
more...
영국 일간지 가디언에서...
The Guardian
Winter Olympics 2018
Garlic Girls: South Korean curling team
ward off more seasoned rivals
The five women have become internet sensations
with their unlikely progression to Winter Olympic semi-finals in Pyeongchang
Benjamin Haas in Pyeongchang
Wed 21 Feb 2018 04.04 GMT
Kim Eun-jung, Kim Kyeong-ae, Kim Seon-yeong and Kim Cho-hi of South Korea
celebrate after beating Olympic athletes from Russia. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
In name only are the Garlic Girls about food.
There’s Yogurt, Pancake, Steak, Cookie and Sunny – as in eggs sunny side up.
But they are not the next K-pop sensation:
they are the South Korean women’s curling team.
The five women – collectively known as the Garlic Girls,
after their garlic-producing hometown – have become internet sensations
after a winning streak that has put them
within striking distance of a medal at the Winter Olympics.
Two are sisters – Kim Yeong-mi and Kim Kyeong-ae –
and their team-mates Kim Eun-jung, Kim Seon-yeong
and alternate Kim Cho-hi all share the surname
that is the most common in the country.
Their most recent 11-2 victory over the Olympic athletes
from Russia secured their place in the semi-finals.
“They’re very resilient,” said Nina Roth, the US team captain,
after losing to South Korea on Tuesday.
“They’ve got the home-court advantage.”
That advantage has built as the tournament progressed,
with recent games packed with local fans.
Deft plays are followed by roars from the crowd
and the team’s captain, Kim Eun-jung, has spawned dozens of memes.
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캐나다 토론토 스타에서...
The Toronto Star
Olympic curling’s Garlic Girls rock
South Korea’s world
Garlic Girls on mission Kim-possible
Korean skip Kim Eun-jung shouts instructions in Olympic curling action on Sunday.
(DEAN MOUHTAROPOULOS / GETTY IMAGES)
By SCOTT CACCIOLAThe New York Times
CHANG W. LEE
Tues., Feb. 20, 2018
UISEONG, SOUTH KOREA—They arrived from all corners of Uiseong County.
They brought homemade signs, waved flags and screamed for every shot.
They came to celebrate four young women from this farming community
who have emerged as the most unexpected (and most gloriously bespectacled)
stars of the Winter Olympics.
On Tuesday afternoon, townspeople gathered inside the gymnasium
here at Uiseong Girls High School to root for the South Korean women’s curling team,
whose match against the United States was shown on a big screen
as an emcee leaned into a microphone and banged on a drum.
“I skip dinner whenever they’re playing,” said Chung Poong-ja, 75,
who danced on the gym floor once the South Koreans sealed their victory.
“My focus needs to be on the match.”
Kim Sung-hee, 67, said, “I lost my voice from cheering so hard.”
It was the biggest, loudest party in the province, and for good reason:
The team’s top four players grew up in this small city of about 54,000 people
and graduated from this high school. Now, thanks to an improbable run
at the Olympics being held in Pyeongchang, about 80 miles to the north,
the team — dubbed the Garlic Girls by the Korean press,
owing to the region’s production of garlic —
seems on the cusp of international celebrity.
continue...
월 스트리트 저널에서...
The Wall Street Journal
The Surprise Star of the Pyeongchang Games?
South Korean Women Curlers
The curlers—whose nicknames are Pancake, Sunny, Steak, Yogurt and Chocho
—have burst the team into medal contention in a sport the country
scarcely cared about until recently
South Korea's skip Kim Eun-jung, right, throws a stone during a women's curling match against China.
PHOTO: NATACHA PISARENKO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By Jonathan Cheng and Andrew Jeong
Updated Feb. 19, 2018 4:21 a.m. ET
GANGNEUNG, South Korea—Last year, South Korea’s curling federation
was embroiled in turmoil, lacking a leader,
public support and even proper access to practice facilities.
Today? The South Korean women’s curling team has emerged
as the breakout star of the Pyeongchang Olympics,
an overachieving underdog that has burst into medal contention
in a sport that South Korea had virtually no presence in just a few years ago.
South Korea’s women’s curling team is on an exquisitely-timed hot streak.
The Olympic hosts have racked up a near-perfect run of victories
over Canada, Switzerland and Great Britain—
three of the curling world’s four great powers.
On Monday, South Korea edged out Sweden,
which had been undefeated, to pull ahead into first place.
Canada and Switzerland, the world No. 1 and 2,
are now teetering on the verge of elimination.
No. 8-ranked South Korea, on the other hand,
is now the undisputed leader, with No. 6-ranked Japan right behind.
How did South Korea build a giant-killing women’s curling team
in a country with zero tradition of it?
Partly through the persistence of four small-town women
who took up the sport a few years ago,
and who now rank among the best in Asia.
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USA 투데이에서...
2018 Winter Olympics:
South Korea women's curlers
breakout stars of Games
PAUL MYERBERG | USA TODAY SPORTS
South Korea's curling team acknowledges the cheers after a victory against the USA.
SOOBUM IM, USA TODAY SPORTS
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea —
South Korean curling skip Kim Eun-jung is
the reverse Superman of these Winter Games:
Kim dons large, wire-framed glasses when she takes the ice,
in the mirror image of Clark Kent returning to Earth,
slapping on his spectacles and walking incognito
into the front door of the Daily Planet.
Curling is a sport of precision, so every tweak
that brings her vision closer to 20/20 could pay off for the Korean women
— and it has so far, with the country now sitting atop
the standings at 6-1 after a 9-6 win Tuesday against the USA.
You can’t argue with the results.
Agile leapers and hulking sliders litter the Pyeongchang Games.
But here at the Gangneung Curling Center, a different sort of athlete reigns.
Each stand a few inches over 5 feet, and their leader barks orders
like a drill sergeant, directing teammates to place stones here,
here and here, and to knock the opponents’ stones there,
there and there. The team will almost always oblige.
And the captain wears glasses.
Not since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has a four-eyed athlete
exerted such control over his or her sport.
Fans aren't really amused by questions about the team's strengths.
“I don’t think it’s funny. They have to watch the curling ball very good,
so they wear glasses to watch it better,” said Kim Hong-ki, 20,
one of hundreds of South Koreans who flocked here
to watch the country’s best team in competition.
“I heard it is a very intelligent game.
In speedskating or short track, they use muscle.
They use brains in curling.”
Though South Korea has captured seven medals thus far,
each has come in an individual event.
Meanwhile, the curlers’ success has captivated locals pleasantly surprised
— though not totally shocked — by the rise into heavy medal contention,
and drawn to the idea of a team of South Korea’s best
standing tall against the world.
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독일의 디 벨트에서...
Die Welt
Südkorea feiert seine Knoblauch-Mädchen
Stand: 20.02.2018
Als auch der große Rivale aus den USA von der Platte geputzt war,
verneigten sich die fünf Kims vor ihrem Publikum und rutschten lächelnd vom Eis.
Wieder einmal hatte das Team der Namensgleichen seine Landsleute bei
den Olympischen Spielen in Pyeongchang begeistert. Als erste Mannschaft zogen
die Gastgeberinnen ins Halbfinale am Freitag ein.
Kim, Kim, Kim, Kim und Kim – so heißen die neuen Lieblinge Südkoreas.
Sie werden „Team Kim“ oder „Garlic Girls“ (wegen des guten Knoblauchs
aus ihrer Heimatstadt Uiseong) genannt und gehören zu den Entdeckungen
in Pyeongchang. „Es ist eine Freude, ihnen zuzuschauen“,
sagte die zweimalige Weltmeisterin Colleen Jones aus Kanada.
Das Team aus der Curling-Provinz um Skipperin Kim Eun Jung,
die wegen ihrer großen Brille immer etwas streng rüberkommt,
fertigte erst die Curling-Großmächte Kanada, Schweiz und Großbritannien ab,
verdrängte dann Schweden von der Tabellenspitze und düpierte die USA mit 9:6.
Längst hat sich die Klasse der Kims herumgesprochen,
ist das Interesse an ihnen auch wegen der Namensgleichheit gestiegen.
„Viele ausländische Sportlerinnen fragen uns: Seid ihr alle Schwestern?“,
berichtet die Trainerin Min Jung, die mit Nachnamen auch noch Kim heißt.
Doch nur zwei der Kims sind tatsächlich Schwestern.
Damit es nicht zu Verwechslungen auf dem Eis kommt,
haben sich die Kims englische Spitznamen gegeben,
benannt nach ihrem Lieblingsfrühstück.
Skipperin Kim Eun Jung ist „Annie“ (Joghurtname),
Kim Kyeong Ae ist „Steak“, Kim Yeong Mi heißt „Pancake“ (Pfannkuchen),
Kim Seon Yeong „Sunny“ (Spiegelei)
und Kim Cho Hae ist „Chocho“ (Schokolade).
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Go
Garlic Girls
for
Gold!!
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