JawaPos.com- Kpop music fans in Indonesia were shocked by the news of a Korean female idol’s romance with an athlete.
Yes, athlete Yun Sung Bin was recently rumored to be close to one of the TWICE members, Jihyo.
Reported from the page OlympicsTuesday (26/3), the athlete, who was known to have been born on May 23 1994 in Namhae, South Korea, is known to have studied at the Korea National Sports University and is 178 cm tall and weighs 76 kg.
Yun Sung Bin is a figure skating or skeleton athlete whose name became known to South Koreans after making history at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
Skeleton is a winter sport in which players have to slide on a cart with their heads facing down on a snowy track.
Previously, Yun Sung Bin participated in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia but at that time had not managed to win a medal.
Then in 2016 Yun Sung Bin won a silver medal in the IBSF World Championships tournament in IGLS, Austria.
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The achievements at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics made South Korea proud because Yun Sung Bin was able to win a gold medal and was the first person besides Europe and America to win a gold medal in the sector. skeleton race at the Olympics.
His extraordinary performance when competing on the track and his calm and classy demeanor earned him the nickname ‘The Emperor’ because it symbolizes strength and endurance.
Apart from that, Yun Sung Bin also got the nickname ‘Iron Man’ because he wore a red skinsuit and helmet similar to one of the Marvel characters, Iron Man, when competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
If other people have dreamed of being athletes since childhood, Yun Sung Bin has never even heard of skeleton sports.
A sports teacher, Kim Young Tae, recommended skeleton sports in 2011 to Yun Sung Bin, but Sung Bin only started when he was 18 years old.