MILAN — They were once best of friends, two brilliant athletes representing both the present and the future of South Korean short track speed skating But then the relationship between Shim Suk-hee, 29, and Choi Min-jeong, 27, suffered what appeared to be irreparable damage in late 2021, when Shim’s expletive-laden text messages sent to a coach during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics got leaked to the media. In those texts, Shim denigrated her teammates and hinted she would intentionally trip up Choi if they ended up in the same race at the Olympics. In the women’s 1,000-meter final at PyeongChang 2018, the two indeed got tangled up when Choi tried to make a pass on the outside. Although Shim was eventually cleared of race-fixing charges, Choi publicly announced she no longer wanted anything to do with Shim and asked Shim to stop calling or texting her to apologize. After serving her national team suspension and missing the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she made her way back into the mix and became teammates with Choi again. However, they only maintained a professional relationship.
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