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1st day after opening ceremony features figure skating, curling matches for S. Korea

MILAN — South Korea will have athletes competing in figure skating’s team event and in the mixed doubles curling tournament on Saturday, the first day following the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Cha Jun-hwan will represent South Korea in the men’s singles segment of the team event in figure skating, with the short program starting at 7:45 p.m. Saturday at Milano Ice Skating Arena in the northern Italian city of Milan. That is 3:45 a.m. Sunday in Korea time. In the team event, 10 countries with qualified skaters in at least three of the four disciplines — the men’s and women’s singles, pairs and ice dance — are eligible. South Korea doesn’t have a pairs team but still entered the team event, as it will give its skaters a chance to get a feel for the ice at the venue ahead of their individual events next week. The round-robin competition in the mixed doubles curling will chug along Saturday, as South Korea’s Kim Seon-yeong and Jeong Yeong-seok face the Czech team of Julie Zelingrova and Vít Chabicovsky. It will be South Korea’s fifth match out of nine in the

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