{"id":1332,"date":"2023-10-05T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2023-12-18T20:20:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:20:44","slug":"sokor-skater-loses-to-taiwan-in-0-01-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/sokor-skater-loses-to-taiwan-in-0-01-second\/","title":{"rendered":"SOKOR SKATER LOSES TO TAIWAN IN 0.01 SECOND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>SOUTH Korean skater Jung Cheol-won&#8217;s decision to celebrate a second too early cost him a gold medal in the Asian Games in China on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Jung was part of the three-man South Korean team competing in the men\u2019s 3,000m speed skating relay final at the Huangzhou Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Jung, who was skating the final leg of the race, approached the finish line just ahead of Taiwan\u2019s Huang Yu-Lin.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Thinking that he had the gold medal sealed, Jung chose to raise his hands aloft and not reach for the finish line.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Unknown to him, Huang stretched a long, left leg forward and was just able to pip Jung to first place.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>As a result, Taiwan finished with a time of 4:05.692 for the gold medal, with South Korea crossing the line in second place with a time of 4:05.702.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Meaning, Taiwan won the gold by an agonizing 0.01 second.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>India finished in third with a time of 4:10.128.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jung Cheol-won<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}