The IOC will announce the 2022 Winter Olympics

Monobab, a single bobsleigh player. [사진 국제봅슬레이스켈레톤연맹]

The hybrid single-seater bobsleigh and short track relay debuts at the Beijing Olympic Winter Games in 2022.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) held an executive committee in Lausanne, Switzerland, to confirm seven events to be added to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games in 2022. This event included the Monobo bobsleigh woman, the freestyle ski man and the big air woman, the mixed group of jumping of ski, hybrid short track relay, mixed aerial ski group show, mixed group show.

Sim Seok-hee (right) and other short-team players train in February. [중앙포토]

The thing that attracted the most attention is the increase of hybrid thing. The IOC, which banned gender equality, staged nine hybrid events at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February. Twenty-eight hybrid events will be held at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. The IOC has predicted that the proportion of female athletes, which stood at 41.1% at the PyeongChang Olympics, would rise to 45.4% at the Games. Beijing Olympic Games. For Korea, the fact that the hybrid track is a regular event on the short track, which was traditionally a strong point, should have a significant impact on preparations for the future.

In addition, it has not been expanded from existing events, but new events have also attracted attention. Monobeb is a one person bobsleigh game. Unlike the existing bobsleigh, where two or four people ride, it's an event that is played on a bobsleigh sled. The total number of gold medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics was 109, according to the expansion of the seven events.

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