What kind of sports event are you waiting for in the new year?

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This year, there are no major events such as the Olympics and the World Cup, but there are sports events that fans can expect from various events.

Reporter Lee Kyung-jae introduces.

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A representative sports event, basketball spirit, to celebrate the New Year after the last year.

It started with a silence for the victims of Jeju Air's accident with a crowd of 4,800,000 people and opened the new year in 2025 as a bell-ringing event.

This year without the Olympics and the World Cup.

The biggest competition for our players is the Winter Asian Games, which will be held in Harbin, China from the 7th of next month.

In Korea, 150 athletes compete in all six events, including ice skating, skiing, and curling, to compete for the championship with China and Japan.

[Kim Gili / Short Track: We will repay you with good performances, as many people are cheering for us]

Professional baseball, which has become a national sport by opening the era of its first 10 million spectators, will open on March 22.

Top teams scrambled to reinforce their power, and the best foreign players of all time joined, making the box office richer.

The third Asian qualifying round for next year's North Korea-China World Cup will also follow.

If Hong wins two consecutive home games against Oman on March 20 and Jordan on March 25, he will effectively confirm his trip to the finals.

The competition that global soccer fans pay attention to is the FIFA Club World Cup, which will be held in the United States for a month from June.

It has grown from a competition of seven teams every year to a competition of 32 teams every four years, and Ulsan HD will represent Korea.

In addition, Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min will participate in the Singapore World Swimming Championships in July, and Woo Sang-hyuk will once again dream of flying at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September.

This is YTN Lee Kyungjae.