When did Cube idols become such athletic sportsmen?

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

‘Athletic results… Cube over SM,YG,JYP!’

‘Idol Sports Athletics Championship’ has been an all-time favorite variety program especially during festive seasons such as Lunar New Year and Chuseok. This year is no exception either. This time round, MBC included curling to existing track races, archery, futsal and more. Fans of different fandoms are, hence, gathered in front of the TV to see how ‘My Oppa’ is doing on the field.

On 30th and 31st January, B Team was crowned the overall winning team. B Team is made up of BEAST, 4minute, BTOB, Secret, C-Clown, B.A.P, Girls’ Day, MBLAQ, A Pink, AOA and Roh JiHoon. The team members took the #1 spot with a total of 6 gold medals and 2 silver medals. To break it down further, they bagged gold for futsal, men’s 60m sprint, women’s relay race, men’s high jump, women archery and men archery. The two silver medals were obtained through women’s curling and mix relay race.




What made the headlines was the fact that most of the 8 medals belong to artists who are under Cube Entertainment. BTOB Lee MinHyuk snagged gold in men’s 60m sprint as well as high jump, while 4minute SoHyun bagged her first ever gold medal in women’s archery, especially after she breaks the runner-up curse. In women’s relay race, A Cube’s A Pink took their second consecutive crown. ‘Spider-hands’ Roh JiHoon contributed as the goalkeeper for the futsal category, in which Team B has succeeded in retaining their first position since last year’s broadcast.

In fact, when ISAC first ever broadcast was aired, Cube idols weren’t always grabbing attention with the number of medals. 4minute was always a step behind SISTAR in the group archery category. However, with the new addition of futsal as well as the participation of BTOB’s Lee MinHyuk, Cube artists seen a growing production of ‘Athletic idols’, and hence, starts to garner attention whenever they participate in ISAC.




It’s a result that they constantly sow. Cube Entertainment spoke to Sports Seoul on 3rd February, “BEAST, BTOB, Roh JiHoon and their managers have come together to form United Cube Team and they will have fun in soccer or futsal every week. Everyone of them loves sports. Similarly, Kwon SoHyun discovered her archery passion through ‘ISAC’. In fact, she participated in amateur archery competition and bagged a silver medal. Everyday is ‘ISAC’ (to them),” Cube Entertainment explained.

BTOB’s Lee MinHyuk representative expressed, “Lee MinHyuk is born with talents in sports. As he graduates with a major in musicals, he’s always disciplined in managing his body and health. Therefore, he had gained good results in ‘ISAC’. In last ‘ISAC’ where he made his first appearance, Lee MinHyuk revealed that he ran as hard as he could so that he could make a name for the group for he was just a rookie. In this year, Lee MinHyuk was utmost determined with a confidence that BTOB will do well in the coming year (if he does well in ISAC). Although he worried since he just got a ligament surgery, but he’s really happy that his hard work paid off,” he added.

Blessing and happiness follow those who work hard. Cube idols who think that ISAC is ‘a venue for them to communicate with fans’ are now running harder as well as having much more fun as compared to when ISAC was initially introduced. Hence, gaining themselves titles as ‘Athletic-dols’. Rather than the greed to bag gold medals and becoming overall winners, the results were merely just awards from their healthy lifestyle.

source: sports seoul, translated by loveindacube


‘ISAC’ MVP BtoB Minhyuk, “They see me as a festive star”


BTOB MinHyuk, the star who swept medals on MBC Festive Program ‘Idol Sports Athletics Championship’ and crowned MVP has delivered his thoughts for getting such great results. Wittily, he called himself a festive star.

Bagging 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal, Lee MinHyuk recently met up with reporters to talk a little behind story after being crowned MVP on ‘ISAC’.

He said, “My friends said that I get attention only during festive seasons, and they called me a festive star” and, “We are about to release a new album now, even though now isn’t a festive season, I will prepare diligently for our upcoming promotions”, he laughed. MinHyuk revealed, “After ‘ISAC’ was broadcast, a few friends who hadn’t call me up for quite some time contacted me. I’m amazed that even long-time friends called me too.”

MinHyuk is a member of BTOB that debuted in 2012. All the members of BTOB have shown their gorgeous looks and exceptional singing and dancing skills. In particular, MinHyuk’s third participation in ‘ISAC’ have garnered attention for he had bagged gold medals for sprints and high jump.

In this year’s ‘ISAC’, MinHyuk created a whole new record in the High Jump cateogry, and followed by gold medals in men’s 60m sprint and futsal. In mix relay race, MinHyuk also took the silver medal, and hence, crowned MVP for this year’s ‘ISAC’.

MinHyuk is known to be a person who likes sports even during his usual times. “No matter how much I love sports or how good I’m at, there are always times where I would feel burdened since I had to get good results in ‘ISAC’”. In fact, according to the production crew of ‘ISAC’, many idol stars feared to get better results than the existing ones. But MinHyuk was different.

He revealed, “When I first appeared on the show, I had only one thought, which is, what should I do to win this race. This was my third time participating in ISAC, since I’ve gotten slightly familiar with the surrounding now, I don’t feel that much pressure. I just thought of giving my best”, he explains.

Followed with the amazing results in ‘ISAC’, MinHyuk will soon release BTOB’s new title track ‘Beep Beep’ on the coming 17th. This song has already garnered much attention when a snippet of it was aired during ‘ISAC’.


source: osen, translated by loveindacube

Comments

[skonka.livejournal.com]

What does Yoseob participate in? LOL

[vermicelli-rice.livejournal.com]

Futsal. It's the only category they participate in and I think it's actually second year in a row that they specially accomodate Beast's schedule so that Doojoon, Kikwang and Yoseob can join ISAC for futsal.

[hearttaek.livejournal.com]

Well, it's only been the second time futsal was included in the isac games.

[skonka.livejournal.com]

Oh really. I always thought Doojoon looks like he could play a bit but I am surprised at Yoseob. Good to know one of my fave idols could play a bit. Thanks.

[vermicelli-rice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seobie scored 2 goals at IAC this year.

[INTERVIEW] MBC's official blog from PD Oh YoonHwan's 2013 Idol Star Atheltics Championship Futsal Behind Story (DuJun, YoSeop, GiKwang)

Q. Were there any idols who really wanted to play in the futsal game?

A. BEAST's Yoon DuJun & Yang YoSeop did. After the futsal game was confirmed, we were sending out invitations to the idol singers' managers informing them about the futsal game and we received a call from BEAST's manager: "DuJun and YoSeop said that they have to play [futsal] with GiKwang, so we decided to change the Japanese schedule." I've already personally known GiKwang as he came out in . They had a Japanese schedule so we were only able to get GiKwang as the MC while the others couldn't attend, but we received a call when the futsal game was announced.


Their excitement was shown as they even sent text messages before the airing of the futsal game "There's no problem with the broadcasting of our futsal game, right? We're so excited"


(capture frm @B2ST_DN ; translation by @dreamboys1016)

[21banged.livejournal.com]

LOL why did they bring YG into this none of their acts were in this :L

Anyways ofc my beautiful BtoB babies slayed they have too much energy it's crazy. BEAST I guess have usually been decent as well so I'm not surprised Cube idols are mopping the floor with the rest of the participants