Story continued to Dream Program: Explore Frontier of Winter Sports. It’s going to share about some stories that related to dreams come true.
Julian Yee Zhi-Jie | Figure Skate | Malaysia
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He is a Malaysian skater, he is a five-time Malaysian senior national champion and has completed in the final segment at seven ISU Championships, including two World Championships.
Julian began learning to skate at age four at the Sunway Pyramid Ice Rink in Malaysia. He and his brothers were introduced to skating by their mother, Irene. In 2011, he became the youngest skater to win the Junior Men’s category, at age 13 years 10 months, thereby breaking the previous record held by his brother, Ryan Yee Zhi-Jwen.
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In 2014, he became the 1st Malaysian to reach the free skate at a Four Continents Championships. One of the youngest skater at the event, held in Taipei City, he qualified for the free skate and finished 23rd overall. He finished 15th overall at the 2017 Four Continents Championships in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Then went directly to Sapporo, japan to complete at his first Asian Winter Games. He placed 8th with a new personal best of 222.69 points.
In August 2017, he won gold at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games. During the Nadelhorn trophy, which was the qualifying event, the 2017 SEA Games gold medallist gamered a score of 71.93 points in his short programme. His free skate routine, where he was placed third, gave him the points needed (148.740 to place in the top seven to qualify for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
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Julian stated, ‘I was selected by Ice Skating Association of Malaysia to participate in the 2009 Korean Dream Program in PyeongChang. I was very inspired with the fact that PyeongChang may be an Olympics Venue in the future and that I had the opportunity to learn more about figure skating at the Korean Dream Program.
With this Dream program, it had also made me realise that the Winter Olympics is a very important and prestigious event. Making me want to be there someday.
8 years later, it is truly and honour and an achievement to be able to qualify and participate at the 2018 Winter Olympics PyeongChang, the very same venue as the Korean Dream Program.”
Tsao Chih-I | Figure Skate | Taiwan
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Tsao Chih-I is a Taiwanese figure skater. He is the 2016 National Champion. He has qualified to the final segment at five World Junior Championships and Four Continents Championships. His story was quoted by President Moon’s speech in Metropolitan in New York.
Another story is Peaceful Olympic through valuable challenge
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On 21 Sep 2017, President Moon Jae In, an honorary ambassador of 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics Games attended a promotional event for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and seek the international community’s backing for a successful hosting of South Korea’s first Winter Olympics.
“PyeongChang has given the chance of Winter sports to teenagers from warm countries for a long time. Thanks to the effort, 1,500 over teenagers from 75 countries have visited PyeongChang and made great friendships.” For the part of his speech, President Moon talked about Dream Program.
“I would like to share the story of Tsao Chih-I from Taiwan. He experienced winter in Pyeongchang for the first time in his life when he was 10 then he fell in love with figure skate. Now he is the new rising figure skater. He called his visit to Pyeongchang as the turning point of his life. I believe this valuable program should stay as legacy of Pyeongchang and lead to the tradition of Winter Olympic, how do you think?”
On the special note of his speech, he added on his goal to make peaceful Olympics event with North Korea’s participation. “We would like to take a big step to the difficult but valuable challenge. Tension between North Korea and South Korea is arising at the moment thus we need to make more gestures of good will. Olympics will be the greatest chance to spread the message of peace and reconciliation to the world. We will try our best together with IOC to the last. Kindly give us your interest and support.”
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