Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of the winners and the losers of curling games to provide the winner strategies for the curling stakeholder. Methods For this study, data was collected from 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics web-site(http://sochi2014.curlingevents.com), which covers 199 games in total. Using the collected data, we extracted additional data such as the shot types and accuracy per players, team average score per end, whether or not with hammer per end and so on. and then a Chi-square test in statistic package SPSS 23.0 was used. The statistical significance was considered with p< 0.05. Results As a result, it was found that there were statistically significant difference between winners and losers of curling game on the shot type and accuracy(Draw, Front and Clearing). It was also found that there was not statistically significant between winners and losers about the number of blank end per end. It was found that 9th end average score was relatively lower than the other end in both the winners and the losers. It was found that the characteristics of the winners tends to be successful in more point from 5th end to 8th end with hammer and steal without hammer. Conclusion In conclusion, the strategies to win the curling game is to improve the shot performance of Lead and Skip, to organize the operation sequence for the successful blank end, and to develop the database and software in curling.
The purpose of the study was to investigate the meteorological and environmental information which should be provided for a winter sport event from the users' point of view, and to provide the fundamental data for the construction of the meteorological information to be specified in a sport event. For this study, some case studies were conducted at the center of Winter Olympic Games. Essential meteorological elements which should be fundamentally provided for a sport event were analyzed. Also, in-depth interviews with athletes, coaches were held to explore the meteorological elements needed from the users' point of view. On the basis of the results analyzed from the study, considerable meterological and environmental elements for supporting 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games were suggested through the discussions with meteorological and sport event experts. As results of the study, essential requirements regarding the meterological and environmental information were extracted. Based on the essential requirements, a method of constructing the information in support of meteorology for Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games was presented.
The purpose of this study was to critically interpret a certain sports-related idea, "Integrated Korean Team," which was an issue at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The idea emerges as a specific political agenda under the conditions of domestic politics and the special environment of Korean national affairs and discourse. To this end, we investigated media texts on the relationship between sports, political dynamics and views on related discourse that were produced in 1990-1991 and 2018. The main findings are as follows: First, sports functions as a political socialization tool for political power as it forms public opinion. Second, sports exchanges work as a kind of international politics. Specifically, political power controls sports as certain political situations arise and political elites' needs change. Third, mega sports events have tended to become politicized in recent years as they become more effective. Fourth, North Korea’s sports under political power cannot be easily dealt with by the private sector, and it has limitations because it is not politically independent. The analysis showed that the negotiation process and realization of the Integrated North and South Korean Team seemed to be a turning point in politics and sports. Here are the conclusions drawn from discussing the two unifying events in 1991 and the situation in 2018. First, both South and North Korea pulled the Integrated Korean Team card when political needs arose. Second, when the two Koreas did not need to reconcile due to changes in the political situation between the two Koreas, they did not want to make efforts to integrate Korean Team. Third, the position of the political elite was directly represented by the position of the South-North Korean team. Fourth, the supporting public opinions of the Integrated Korean Team are gradually diminishing as the power gap between the two Koreas widens and sports players' human rights issues emerge.
