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Yun Sungbin Wins Skeleton Gold Medal at Winter Olympics 2018

Yun Sungbin wears Iron Man on his helmet, and he was the superhero in front of the home crowd in the men's skeleton competition at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The South Korean star established himself as the one to beat in the first two runs and then captured the gold medal in runs three and four in the event that aired live Thursday night in the United States. Sungbin finished with a time of 50.18 seconds in the third run and 50.02 seconds in the fourth, bringing his cumulative time over the course of the entire competition to three minutes and 20.