Canadian-born goaltender Matt Dalton is the only one of the foreign imports brought in to bolster South Korea’s 2018 Winter Olympic ice hockey squad to remain in the country
ANYANG (SOUTH KOREA) – As 2018 hosts, South Korea dreamed of Olympic ice hockey glory, importing a star coach and roster of players. Four years later, not only did they fail to qualify for this week’s Beijing Games, most of their players quit the sport.
The team’s demise — hastened by the Covid-19 pandemic — is symbolic of how the Pyeongchang Games four years ago failed to spur much in the way of lasting interest in winter sports in South Korea and investment dried up.
The ice hockey minnows were granted an automatic berth for their home Olympics, leaving officials scrambling to assemble a competitive men’s team in a country with…
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