Hi.
I'm Lee Ji-won and I am here to bring you the latest on the PyeongChang 2018 Winter
Paralympics.
It's Day 4 of the Games, and Team Korea had a number of exciting moments today.
Team Korea's wheelchair curling got back to winning ways on Tuesday morning against Finland.
South Korea had strong performances in the 1st, 5th and 7th ends, finishing the game
11-3.
That victory was Team Korea's fifth win so far,... after it previously beat the USA,
Slovakia, Canada, and the Neutral Paralympic Athletes from Russia.
Team Korea's only defeat so far at the Paralympics came in Monday night's match against Germany,
where they lost 4-3.
But even so,...
South Korea is still in a good position to make the semi-finals.
The men's 12-point-5-kilometer sitting biathlon race was held earlier in the day, where Sin
Eui-hyun's hunt for medals continued.
But Sin finished in 5th place with a time of 50 minutes 1-point-0-9-seconds.
Sin was fast, but after missing four of the five targets in the second round of shooting,
he lost focus.
Lee Jeong-min, who was also in contention, finished 9th, recording a time of 51 minutes
51-point-5 seconds.
Some more disappointing news for Team Korea,... the previously undefeated para ice hockey
team lost their final group-stage match to the USA, which stands at the top of Group
B, undefeated.
As one of the most offensive teams, the U.S. was aggressive from the start, scoring 6-points
in period 1 alone.
Adding 2 more points in the third period, the U.S. took the game by 8 to nothing.
But still, the good news is that Team Korea, taking second place in its group, has advanced
to the semi-finals for the first time in Paralympic history.
Ranking third in the world, Team Korea will play against world number one Canada on Thursday.
Let's now look at some of the standout events for the rest of today and for tomorrow.
Korea's wheelchair curlers have their 7th preliminary round match against Switzerland
in about an hour and half.
Though Korea has lost one match, it is still tied with China at the top of the round-robin
group.
And the medal rounds for the men's and women's alpine skiing giant slalom will take place
Wednesday morning.
Cross-country skiers' hunt for medals will also begin from early morning tomorrow with
qualification rounds starting at 10 o'clock.
Six South Korean skiers will participate, including Sin Eui-hyun and Lee Do-yeon.
North Korea's Ma Yu-chol and Kim Jong-hyon will also have their final appearance in the
men's 1-point-1-kilometer sitting sprint... before returning to the North on Thursday.
That's it from me for now but I'll be back with more updates on the Paralympic games
in our next newscast.
With that, let's look at the medal table as of 5:30 p.m. Korea time.
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