Simon Cho was born on October 7,1991 and is a retired Korean American short track speed skater who was a member of the US Olympic Team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
11 Facts About Simon Cho
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Simon Cho is currently the head coach at Potomac Speed Skating Club.
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Simon Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to the United States as an undocumented immigrant with his parents at the age of four and settled in Chicago.
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Simon Cho remained an undocumented immigrant until he reached the age of 11.
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Simon Cho trained in Salt Lake City but moved back to Upper Marlboro, Maryland a year before the US Olympic Trials, initially quit speed skating after failing to qualify for performance grants from the US Olympic Committee and US Speedskating which would have offset the unaffordable costs of $40,000 for training.
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Apolo Ohno noted that Simon Cho "basically made this team training on his own".
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Simon Cho cites Ohno and Shani Davis as mentors who helped him face challenges as being a person of color in the sport.
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Simon Cho earned a bronze medal in the relay after skating in the semifinals.
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Simon Cho claimed that he acted on an order from his coach Jae-Su Chun.
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The suspension ran through October 4,2014, which means Simon Cho missed the chance to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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Simon Cho is the coach of his home club, the Potomac Speedskating Club, now based in Wheaton, MD.