[ROAD TO BEIJING] Skeleton
![Yun Sung-bin starts his race during the men's skeleton competition at the Bob & Skeleton World Cup and IBSF European Championships in Saint-Moritz, Switzerland in January. [REUTERS/YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/01/31/070666c5-c1ea-4630-986d-72f3d6a4eb64.jpg)
Yun Sung-bin starts his race during the men's skeleton competition at the Bob & Skeleton World Cup and IBSF European Championships in Saint-Moritz, Switzerland in January. [REUTERS/YONHAP]
In the last five years, skeleton has gone from a relatively unknown sport in Korea to a source of national pride when Yun became the first Asian athlete ever to medal in an Olympic sliding sport in 2018. Now a second generation of Korean sliders is taking their spot on the slope, led by 22-year-old Jung Seung-gi.
Jung, who now outranks Yun, won his first-ever World Cup medal when he finished third in Sigulda, Latvia, on Dec. 31. Kim Eun-ji will also make her Olympic debut in Beijing, competing in the women’s skeleton.
BY YUN SO-HYANG AND JIM BULLEY [yun.sohyang@joongang.co.kr]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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