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[Master] The team that will join Korea
and advance to the Final Quest…
Mongolia.
[cheering]
Mongolia.
[cheering]
[Orkhonbayar] We made it to the final round of Physical: Asia.
It feels amazing.
[Enkh-Orgil] One! Two!
[Orkhonbayar] I'm so grateful to have such an incredible,
hardworking team.
-[whistle blows] -[Master] Game over.
See? You really did save us!
[Master] Mongolia's final time was 25 minutes and 15 seconds.
[Dulguun] Ooh, that's a bit slow.
-Okay, 25. -[Dulguun] Don't you think?
-[pensive music playing] -[Master] Mongolia.
-[Mongolian team cheers] -[Yushin groans]
[Yushin] It's okay, it's okay.
It is what it is.
[Master] Team Japan…
you have been eliminated for failing to complete the quest.
Oh! They didn't finish?
What?
[Orkhonbayar] I bet it was the gate.
[Khandsuren] Maybe the gate didn't lock or something.
-That sucks… -Ah.
-[Yushin] Good job, team. We did our best. -[Soichi] It still sucks.
[thrilling music playing]
[Katsumi] One, two…
-Come on. -What's going on?
[Kana] What's happening?
[Yushin] The bridge wouldn't move past the halfway point.
And no matter what we did, it was just kind of stuck there.
[Kana] Try jumping.
[Kana grunts]
-What's going on? -[Soichi] Are we doing it wrong?
[Nonoka] What else are we supposed to do?
One, two!
[Yoshio] It wasn't for lack of trying.
Everyone was pulling as hard as they could.
[Katsumi grunts]
[Kana] Time just kind of flew by without notice.
Man! Not even a little…
[Yoshio] I was getting anxious. And this… really ate away at me.
[Nonoka] I just didn't know what to do. What could we do?
[Yushin] It moved a bit.
[Kana] All I could hear was, "Quest failed. Quest failed."
[Yushin] Last stand. We've got five minutes.
We can't give up now, all right?
-[Katsumi] One, two! -[Yushin] We can do this!
[all grunt]
[Soichi, straining] It's still not moving!
[Yushin] Don't give up!
[yells]
[whistle blows]
[Katsumi groans]
[Master] Game over.
[sad music playing]
[Soichi] We did all we could.
[Yushin] It's okay. It's fine.
-We're fine. -[Kana] Good job. You okay?
-You did good. -Yeah, we did our best.
-Good job, team. -Thank you.
[Nonoka] Despite our best efforts…
the clock ran out, and we weren't able to raise the gate again.
The worst part was realizing that
our team just wasn't strong enough.
As team captain…
I'm really frustrated. And I feel like I let everyone down.
[Master] Physical: Asia.
[calm music playing]
Japan, you have been eliminated from Physical: Asia.
You must now destroy your torsos with your very own hands.
Sucks they're going home.
We came here intending to leave as champions.
And during our time here,
I remained confident in our ability to win.
-All right! -[Katsumi] Nice job!
[Kana] We did it!
[Soichi] You're the best, man!
However, in spite of this confidence, and our intentions, we were defeated.
But Japan always manages to bounce back
from defeat, no matter what.
And as Captain, I couldn't be more proud
of this incredible team.
Thank you for everything.
[Nonoka] Everyone here really believed in me.
[Kana] Nice, Nonoka.
-[Yoshio] Hang in there! -[Katsumi] You can do it.
[Nonoka] And because of them,
I realized that I don't have to fight by myself anymore.
I know that my time here will be something
I treasure for the rest of my life.
I'm disappointed about how things turned out.
But through all the trials and tribulations,
I'm glad I kept going.
And I wouldn't have been able to do that without the support of my teammates.
I believe that this experience has made me a stronger person.
I really mean that.
And as for my team, I can't imagine a better group of people.
For all the thrills, and all the excitement…
I'm so grateful for having this opportunity
to be a part of Physical: Asia.
Uh…
I had a lot of fun here.
I'm glad I got to push myself.
He's an amazing athlete. Amazing.
Yeah, he really is.
I wish things were different.
But, at the end of the day, serious physical competition is…
[soft music playing]
-[Yushin cheers] -[Nonoka] Great job!
[Soichi] Push him back!
[Yoshio] …always inspiring
and beautiful to see.
[Soichi] That's it, man! That's it!
[Nonoka] Yes, Soichi!
[Yoshio] And being here reminded me of that.
So, thank you.
I actually think that's quite beautiful.
-Ready? -[Lkhagva-Ochir] Look at that.
There's the swing.
[athlete chuckles]
I know the six of us here fought as hard as we could.
[Yoshio] Getting to represent our country
on Physical: Asia has been an incredible honor.
[Soichi] We're not just colleagues and teammates, we've all become… family.
So, uh…
It hurts. It just feels like there's this big hole in my heart.
Yeah, I already feel a bit lonely. [chuckles]
[Yushin] I'm so grateful that the universe brought us together.
[Soichi] I'll always remember this.
[Nonoka] Even though we're leaving, we're leaving with our heads high.
-[Yushin] One, two, three! -[together] Go, Japan!
[together] Go, Japan!
[applauding]
[Yushin] Attention! Bow.
Bow.
-Thank you. -[Amotti] Great job.
-Thank you. -[Khandsuren] Well done.
-[Yushin] Thanks, man. -Okami…
[Yushin] Yeah, it's a shame. But it is what it is. Good luck.
-[Yoshio] Thank you! -Good job, good job.
[Yoshio] Nice fight!
-[Nonoka] Thank you. -[Seung-yeon] Thank you.
[thrilling music playing]
PHYSICAL: ASIA
12. ALL-OUT BATTLE
[classical music playing]
[athletes exclaim]
-[Amotti] No way! -[Eun-sil] Look at that!
-It smells so good. -Wow.
That's awesome.
-[athletes exclaim] -[Orkhonbayar] It looks like a party!
-[Eun-sil] Yay! -Oh.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] That looks delicious.
[Khandsuren] I'm so excited!
-Mongolian food? -[Lkhagva-Ochir] I think so.
[Dong-hyun] That looks good.
If we make the finals, I wanna celebrate…
with lots of Khorkhog.
A pot of boiled beef, a platter of buuz…
I think that's my favorite.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] Goulash!
-[athlete 1 exclaims] -Mongol food?
[Khandsuren] You have to try it. This name, "buuz."
-[Eun-sil] Delicious? -[Khandsuren] Delicious!
[athlete 2 gasps]
-[Orkhonbayar] Khorkhog. -[Amotti] Khorkhog, Khorkhog.
[Adiyasuren] I can't help it, I get so excited when I see food.
[Orkhonbayar] There's Korean cuisine too.
-[athlete 3] Oh. -[athlete 4 laughs]
What would I wanna eat?
-Samgyetang. -I'd want sotbap.
Some samgyeopsal and kimchi jjigae.
[Amotti] Kimchi jjim!
[Eun-sil] That looks amazing.
[Dong-hyun] Baeksuk!
[Seung-yeon] That looks so good!
-[Dong-hyun] Wow! -[Amotti] That rice looks beautiful.
[Seung-yeon] Yay!
[Min-jae] It was our own Last Supper.
You know, that one big meal,
that occurs right before someone gets killed.
Eat up, more.
-Enjoy. -[Seung-yeon] Enjoy!
Mmm.
[Adiyasuren] Getting to eat Mongolian food before the final was really wonderful.
I felt rejuvenated and full of energy.
[Khandsuren] On the other hand,
it was a bit of an awkward situation.
We were sharing a meal with the people we were about to fight.
Wow. The lamb's great.
Mmm.
[Amotti] It's amazing.
Mmm.
Enjoy it while you can, before you taste defeat.
[Mongolian team laughs]
[Dong-hyun] The fight began
long before we entered the final arena.
They kept glancing over at us.
Probably wondering,
"What's going on in their heads?
Are they relaxed? Anxious?"
It felt like we were being analyzed.
[Orkhonbayar] How did they do it?
How did they close the gate so fast?
I think they're just that strong. It's because of all that kimchi.
Mongolia's gonna be tough to beat.
[Dong-hyun] I really didn't think they'd make it this far.
[Eun-sil] Me neither.
Khandsuren.
Did you think we'd make it to the finals?
Or were you surprised?
We weren't all that surprised.
At least, not me.
Hmm.
What about you?
Are you surprised to see us in the finals with you, or no?
-[Dulguun] I think they're surprised. -I think you're right…
[Dong-hyun] Honestly, I think we were all surprised.
None of us really expected it.
At first, I kind of assumed that you'd just gotten lucky.
But the fact that you're here means you deserve to be here.
We're "Lucky Vicky," huh?
[Orkhonbayar] Or maybe we're just that skilled.
[Dulguun] Let's go with that.
[Orkhonbayar] I kept an eye on Korea the entire time while eating.
[Dong-hyun] I wasn't going to let our opponents intimidate us.
Looking at Orkhonbayar,
I could tell he thought the same thing.
I love that we're sitting here, eating together,
as if… there's not a billion won on the line.
I guess it's really all or nothing, isn't it?
[Enkh-Orgil] I know it's the finals, but I don't feel all that stressed out.
Converting the prize money sounds more stressful.
[athletes laugh]
They're hilarious.
I think they were a bit overconfident.
[chuckles] We're winning this thing.
Hey, what will you do with the prize money?
If our team wins today, and we get the prize money,
we'll buy all of you some plane tickets to visit Mongolia.
We'll buy all of you some plane tickets to visit Mongolia.
-[pensive music playing] -[together] Oh.
That's nice.
Let's both give it everything we've got today.
We'll fight with no regrets.
Going into the final match today,
I'm glad that it's shaping up to be a really intense battle.
And while we would love to visit Mongolia,
I'm determined to do so with our own prize money.
-[Master] Physical: Asia. -[tense music playing]
Final Quest.
All right, we made it! Final Quest.
[Master] Contestants, please make your way to the arena.
-[Amotti] Whoa. -All right, here we go!
-[applauding] -[Dong-hyun] Okay!
-May the best team win. -[Dong-hyun] Bring it on, guys.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] Absolutely.
[intense music playing]
[heart monitor beeping]
[beeping rapidly]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Master] Physical: Asia.
The Final Quest is about to begin.
Korea, Mongolia,
please enter the arena.
[Amotti] What's all of this?
[Khandsuren] Look at that…
-[Amotti] A track? -[Dong-hyun] It's big.
-I guess we're all gonna be running. -[Lkhagva-Ochir] Yeah…
-There's boxes too. -Whoa.
-And we'll be pushing those. Right? -Right.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] There was a huge track on the outside of the arena,
and on the inside there were these boxes.
[Eun-sil] I think we're supposed to move them that way.
-[Sung-bin] So, we're pushing boxes… -Wait, there's a ball, too.
[Sung-bin] I see a rope. That's all iron.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] Do you see all those carabiners?
Maybe we have to drag it across?
Maybe.
-Who knows, man? -Hmm?
-It could be anything. -[Eun-sil] Yeah…
I've got no idea.
[Adiyasuren] I assumed the "Final Quest" would be pretty straightforward.
I thought we'd be playing a large-scale game.
But there were all these… things.
There were these iron weighs with ropes attached,
and these weird, long boxes.
And all of them were surrounded by this running track.
Whatever they had in store for us was certainly finals-worthy.
[Master] Of the eight competing nations,
only two have made it to the Final Quest.
Korea.
Mongolia.
Between the two of you,
only the nation that displays the finest teamwork…
will prove that they, above all other nations,
have the best and most perfect physiques.
The team that emerges victorious in today's Final Quest
will receive a grand prize…
of one billion won.
-Of one billion won. -Wow.
[Dong-hyun] Of course, the money's nice.
But just winning the competition,
and proving to everyone that Korea is the strongest of all eight nations…
to me, that's the real prize.
[Adiyasuren] Everything we went through, everything we did, was for Mongolia.
We had to fight for her till the bitter end.
[Master] We will now invite the Captains to speak.
From South Korea, Kim Dong-hyun.
[pensive music playing]
At the start of this competition,
I said that true strength comes from within.
And even now, I still believe those words to be true.
Korea has made it here through pure grit and determination.
Even at our lowest point,
we never once surrendered or gave up the fight.
And now that we're here, we have no intention of stopping until we prove
that Korea's the strongest. Even if it kills us.
[Seung-yeon] I know Korea has what it takes to win.
All of us are already strong as individuals.
But we're at our best when we work together,
our teamwork is our greatest strength.
We won't just win this, we're gonna crush them.
[Master] And now the opposing team's Captain.
From Mongolia, Orkhonbayar Bayarsaikhan.
Our team stands united in one common goal:
To win this competition on behalf of Mongolia.
No challenge has ever managed to weaken our resolve.
That's why today, no matter what happens, we'll walk away as champions.
Let's go! Whoo!
[Enkh-Orgil] Our intentions have always been clear.
We're going to win.
And if we continue as we have, fighting together,
with every last ounce of our strength, I know that we'll be victorious.
[Master] Physical: Asia.
The Final Quest will now be revealed.
[suspenseful music playing]
The Final Quest…
[Dong-hyun huffs]
…is a six-on-six All Out Team match.
Okay. This is good.
[Master] The six-on-six All Out Team match…
will consist of three games.
Three?
-We're winning everything. We got this. -Ideally.
[Master] For each of the three games,
all six teammates
will be participating.
Ooh.
[Orkhonbayar] If it's our six against their six,
then I think our team might have the upper hand here.
[Master] Out of the three games,
the team that manages to win two of the games…
will be crowned the winner
of Physical: Asia.
[pensive music playing]
First game:
the Wall-Pushing Match.
In this game,
your goal is to push the central walls into your opponent's territory.
Whoever covers more of their opponent's territory will win.
Okay, it's battle of strength.
It's kind of like tug-of-war.
But the opposite.
We'll have to overpower them.
[Master] Second Game:
the Iron Ball Dragging Match.
In this game,
all six members of a team must work together to drag
an iron cluster across the finish line within a preset time frame.
From the looks of it, each of the teams will have their own set of weights.
[Master] Game Three:
the Infinite Tail Tag Match.
The Infinite Tail Tag Match.
Ah.
-That sounds exhausting. -Where's that arena?
[Master] In this game,
two teams will simultaneously run a relay-type race.
From their designated side of the track, each team must run fast enough
to pass three runners on their opponent's team to win.
So, one team starts on this side, and the other on that side.
And you wanna try to run fast enough to pass three people on their team.
That's all mental strength. Yeah…
Sorry, but if you fall behind, we're gonna have to push you.
If it's like a 10k sprint,
it'll all come down to speed.
We're gonna win.
[Master] The first game you will be playing…
is the Wall-Pushing Match.
I already know that the finals are gonna be tough.
-Okay, we've gotta win this. -Mm-hmm.
We have to.
[Adiyasuren] Out of all the games,
I figured the Wall Push would be the easiest for us.
We've been able to win by leveraging our strength before,
so I knew we could do it again.
[Master] The second game will be selected by the team that loses the first game.
Ah.
Okay. So we need to prepare for both games.
Okay. I've got it, I think I have a plan. Let's do this.
[Master] Physical: Asia. Final Quest.
Your first game, the Wall-Pushing Match,
is about to begin.
[tense music playing]
[Master] We will now explain the rules of your first game,
the Wall-Pushing Match.
There are three lanes, each with a movable wall.
Your goal is to push these walls as far as you can into your opponent's territory.
The team that covers the most territory will win.
They're all different sizes too.
All right, this is gonna be fun, isn't it?
Whoo!
[Master] During the game,
you may distribute your teammates throughout the lanes as you see fit.
All participants are free to switch lanes whenever they'd like.
So we're doing all three at once.
Yeah, we're gonna have to think fast.
[Master] You will play for a total of five minutes.
The team that manages to cover more of their opponent's territory across all
three lanes will be declared the winner.
So basically, there's no way to end the game prematurely, right?
That's right.
[Master] The game will consist of three separate rounds.
The first team to win two of the three rounds will be declared the winner.
-Three rounds? -Yeah, best two out of three.
Of course it is…
[Sung-bin] On the surface, it looks like a battle of strength.
And yet… It doesn't really matter how strong you are.
If you push an object away from you while someone pushes it towards you,
it creates a lot of strain on your body.
[Orkhonbayar] The rules were easy enough to understand.
It was simple.
As long as we could take two of the three lanes,
we'd be able to win.
[Master] Contestants, take a moment to strategize.
[pensive music playing]
All right, so, my thought was we should really only focus on two lanes.
I think we should prioritize the big boxes,
and put two groups of three on each one.
For group one, I think Adiya, Dulguun, and Ochir.
And for two, that leaves Khanda,
Orgil, and myself.
[Dong-hyun] All right. So…
there's lots of ways we could do this.
We could assign each of us to shadow someone
on their team based on weight.
So if your guy goes that way, then you follow them to counter them.
Maybe one of us can stay here,
and two can go back and forth?
-How about… -Uh-huh?
-…we do two lanes. Yeah. -Two lanes?
Okay, say we do that,
and we're losing on both of them. What should we do?
Actually,
maybe we should try to take the center. 'Cause if you think about it…
[Min-jae] I think Dong-hyun was panicking a bit.
[Eun-sil] He pitched a lot of ideas,
and he kept asking for our input on them.
But he… didn't really have a plan, if that makes sense.
And right before we reached an agreement…
[Master] Contestants, you have one minute remaining.
I think we should pick who's going to stay center with Min-jae.
[Dong-hyun] Yeah, that was
kinda rough. I'm a planner,
so I like running different simulations of various scenarios.
But in this game, there were so many variables,
so it was hard to predict everything.
-[Master] Physical: Asia. -[tense music playing]
Final Quest. The Wall Pushing Match.
At the sound of the whistle,
round one will begin.
-[Dong-hyun] Let's get a good start. -Don't overthink it, just go for it.
-As fast as you can. -[Eun-sil] Okay.
[Amotti] We kind of gave up on having an official strategy
and decided to experiment. Who knows, maybe we'd have more power.
Hey. Those two are gonna run this way.
[Master] Stand by.
I think they're going for the big one.
Adiya, come with me.
[Master] Ready.
[whistle blows]
[tense music playing]
[Amotti] Push!
-[straining] -Got it, got it.
[whistle blows]
[Nonoka] Stay on them.
[Amotti] Push!
Okay. Nice work.
[Orkhonbayar] Go.
Push!
[Eun-sil] You go over there!
[athletes grunting]
[all grunting, straining]
[Lkhagva-Ochir] One, two, three!
One, two!
-Push, push. Yeah, we're locked. -Good?
Okay, good.
Okay.
[Eun-sil] Keep pushing.
-Seung-yeon, stretch your leg. -[Dong-hyun] Yeah, like that.
Don't lose your balance.
[athletes breathing heavily]
One, two!
-All right. Let's back up a bit. -One, two.
-One, two, three! -Three!
[Dong-hyun] We figured that the middle lane was the most important one to take,
so we decided to send Amotti, Min-jae, and Sung-bin there.
Okay, we can't just keep holding our ground.
[Dong-hyun] In the meantime, the rest of us would deal with the medium box.
It was a good plan.
But as it turns out, Mongolia had the same idea.
[Adiyasuren] One, two, three!
[Dong-hyun] You're winning, so just keep holding.
-We're behind, right? -Yeah, by a bit.
-[Dong-hyun] One, two, three! Push! -Come on.
-One, two, three! Push! Push! -One, two, three!
Don't use up your strength, guys.
Just apply pressure.
Wait for an opening.
-When they weaken. -One, two!
One, two, push!
All right! That's it, yes!
-Two, push! -All right! That's it, yes!
We're not pushing efficiently.
-Just hold steady. -Yeah, but if we don't push,
-they'll overtake us. -One, two, three!
One, two!
That's it! Push!
-[Dulguun] Ready. -One, two, three! There we go!
Okay, let's hold now.
-One, two, three! -Ready.
Hold!
[straining]
[Amotti] I thought we could overpower them.
Especially because
we were up against two men and one woman.
But little by little, they pushed us back.
[Sung-bin] I mean, our trio had to be stronger.
Realistically, Adiyasuren couldn't be that strong, could she?
[Adiyasuren] One, two, three! All right, that's it! One, two, three!
[Dulguun] One, two!
-[Orkhonbayar] We need to push in sync. -[Adiyasuren] You're right.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] Did we do it?
-Yeah, we got there. -Okay, good.
Let's keep pushing like this then.
[Enkh-Orgil] One, two, three.
-[lkhagva-Ochir] Nice job! Nice job! -[Enkh-Orgil] Thanks. Thanks.
[Khandsuren] Again.
-[Eun-sil] They're pushing us back. -Yeah.
[Dong-hyun] Let's give it a big push. One, two, three! Push!
[together] One, two, three! Push!
-One, two, three! -Push!
It's not working.
[Eun-sil] Time just seemed to fly by out there.
We were doing our best to hold our ground,
but our strategy wasn't working.
[Eun-sil] Hey Dong-hyun, no one's in that last lane.
You're right.
What if we switch to that one?
Let me think…
-They won't be expecting it. -Mmm.
Yeah? Let's do it.
The one on the end.
-I think they said, "Watch the clock… -All right.
-…and hold still." -Okay.
-[Dong-hyun] Push! Push! -[Eun-sil] One, two, three!
[Seung-yeon] It felt like pushing a wall.
Mongolia was strong.
Of course I was worried. I knew we had to do something,
but I didn't know what to do.
Should we?
Let's go on the count of three.
-Okay. Yes. -All of us? Are you sure?
Maybe one of us should stay here to keep hold.
No, no, no… All right, let's go at three.
-Okay. -All three?
-Three seconds. -Yes, in two, one…
-[Dong-hyun] Go! Come on. -[Eun-sil] Run!
-[Dong-hyun] Go, go, go! -[Eun-sil] Run!
Okay! Push it as far as you can! Push, you guys!
[Eun-sil] Let's go!
I'll take this one.
-You sure? Okay. -Go back. Help 'em out.
You too, Seung-yeon.
Wait, come here!
[Orkhonbayar] I was keeping an eye on Korea the whole time.
And even though they took the first lane, we continued to follow our own plan.
Keeping our lead in the third lane, and overtaking Korea in the second lane.
Wait, come here!
This way! This way!
All right, ready? One, two, three.
-Push! -Keep it up!
-One, two, three! One, two, three! -Push! Push! Push!
-One, two. -Push.
-Keep it up! -One, two, three!
[Dong-hyun] Farther, farther!
[athletes straining]
-[Adiyasuren] Keep it up! Push! -One, two, three! One, two, three!
[suspenseful music playing]
[together] One, two, three! One, two, three!
-One, two, three! -Seung-yeon. Hey! Seung-yeon!
-One, two, three! -Can you go over there?
-One, two, three! -Quickly!
-One, two, three! -They're going to lane 3!
[Adiyasuren] Run, Khanda! Run, run, run!
Run, run, run, run, run.
Hey, they're going to lane three! Run, Khanda! Run, run, run!
Run, run, run, run, run.
Run, run, run.
-[Mongolian team] One, two, three! -[Khandsuren] Let's go!
-[Lkhagva-Ochir] Stay there! -[Adiyasuren] Stay there, Khanda!
One, two, three!
-One, two, three! -[Dong-hyun] How we doing, Eun-sil?
It's in our zone, push, push!
[Sung-bin] We're losing.
[Dong-hyun] No, no, you need to stay there, all right?
We just need to push.
-[Dulguun] Okay! One, two, push! -[Adiyasuren] All right!
-Keep going, okay? All right. -One, two, three!
[Min-jae] Getting pushed around like that really hurt my pride.
It kind of felt like they were hunting us down.
[Amotti] By that point, it was clear that our tactics weren't working.
And I started to question
whether or not we could actually beat Mongolia.
[Amotti] What do you think? Should we ditch and go left?
Sure. Let's try it.
Okay, we're all gonna go left in a sec. But wait, we have some time.
[Dong-hyun] How 'bout now?
[Amotti] Hold on, just a sec.
Okay, get ready to move left.
[Dong-hyun] Left, Min-jae.
-We'll go with Amotti, okay? -Ready?
One, two, three! Go!
-Run! We need to block them! -You two go!
[grunting]
-[Dong-hyun] One, two, three! -[grunting]
-[Dong-hyun] One, two, three- -Come help us!
[Amotti grunts]
One…
[Amotti grunts]
Come on, we're out of time!
[Master] One minute.
-[Dong-hyun] One, two, three! -[Amotti] Ugh!
[Dong-hyun] One, two!
This isn't working…
Khanda! Run that way!
[Dong-hyun] We'd lose anyway if we leave it,
so let's just try it.
[English] Run!
-[Dong-hyun] One, two, three! -[Adiyasuren grunts]
[Sung-bin] One, two, three!
[Dong-hyun] Come here, Eun-sil!
[Sung-bin] Ready?
[Eun-sil] One, two, three! One, two, three!
Great job, team! We're almost there!
Let's go.
[Amotti] Oh, come on!
Push! Harder.
[Dong-hyun] Everyone, here!
-[Dulguun] Come over here! -[Orkhonbayar] Help us!
-[Eun-sil] Seung-yeon, here. -[Dong-hyun] One, two, three!
-Your stance. Let me help you. -[Dong-hyun] One, two, three!
-[Eun-sil] Get lower. -[Amotti] Yeah, get lower.
[Eun-sil] One, two, three!
[grunts]
[Dong-hyun] Ah…
Just stay where you are.
We're so close…
[whistle blows]
[cheering]
-[Master] Stop. The match has ended. -Man, they're strong…
[Master] The winner of round one is Mongolia.
-[cheering] -[Adiyasuren] All right!
-[Dulguun] Nice job! -You too.
We're stronger than them.
-[Dulguun] Well done, yeah. -I think we made the right call.
[Dulguun] We did.
[Adiyasuren] We felt amazing, we'd been able to overwhelm Korea.
If we could do the same in round two,
we'd win this whole thing.
Everyone did great, but I think our MVP
was definitely Adiya.
She really gave us an edge in there.
One, two, three!
Oh man…
She's strong. Their judoka just wouldn't budge.
Man, she's strong! What should we do?
[Amotti] I have no idea…
[Min-jae] I didn't know what to do.
I was completely out of ideas.
Would anything work?
Are we just gonna lose again?
In that moment, nothing seemed scarier than losing.
[Eun-sil] We need to win this round.
But the question is how?
We keep losing our ground.
[Dong-hyun] After that first round,
everyone was down. Morale was really, really low.
We knew we had to do something,
but that was easier said than done.
We just have to get the lead first.
[Sung-bin] I think they were struggling to hold their ground.
That's why they kept pushing.
It was a good strategy,
and they were able to pull it off.
I'll take the far one.
I'll sprint over once we start.
[Dong-hyun] All right, sounds good. To the small one, right?
[Amotti] Yeah, and the rest of us go center.
[Dong-hyun] Okay, okay. So we're split five and one.
Honestly, I think we started off well in round one.
But once Mongolia started to move between lanes,
we lost our ground.
So as the fastest person on my team, I thought I could function
as the designated lane hopper and assist as needed.
-As soon as we win this- -It's over for them.
Plus, we won't have to do a third round.
I think we should do something similar.
Sound good? Two groups of three?
We can adjust as needed.
We were pretty optimistic going into round two.
We started with an initial strategy, and modified it based on Korea's actions.
When they gathered in the center, we gathered in the center.
When they split themselves up, we split up as well.
Now that we've seen how they play, it'll be easier to counter them.
[Master] Final Quest. First game: the Wall-Pushing Match.
Round two will now begin.
[suspenseful music]
Stand by.
Get ready. Pay attention.
[Dong-hyun] Be speedy.
[Master] Ready.
[whistle blows]
-[tense music] -[Eun-sil grunts]
[Eun-sil] Come on, steady!
[Amotti] Lower.
[whistle blows]
[Adiyasuren] There they go.
Get ready!
-Ready! -One, two, three!
[Sung-bin] In this game, it's much easier to maintain a lead than it is to take one.
So if we moved one block to the end of one lane,
and moved the center block a little over halfway,
then all we had to do was hold our ground.
One, two, three! Push! One, two, three!
One, two, three!
[Adiyasuren] Wait for that opening.
With all of us working together,
little by little, we kept advancing towards Korea.
And the farther we went, the more convinced I was.
We were going to win this challenge.
One, two, three!
One, two, three! One, two, three!
One, two, three!
[Eun-sil] We were trapped in the middle.
It was bad. I knew it was bad.
One, two, three!
[Adiyasuren] Wait for that opening.
Hold! Hold! Hold on!
-Ready! -One, two, three!
-[grunting] -All right! That's it!
One, two, three! One, two, three!
[Adiyasuren] One, two, three!
[grunting]
-Almost there! -One, two.
[Adiyasuren] One, two, three!
-One, two, three! -Come on, team! Keep going!
One, two, three!
Let's do this! Three!
[Adiyasuren] Let's wait 'til they're tired.
[Dulguun] Way to go! We did it!
One, two, three! One, two, three!
-Should I slip out? -[Amotti] Sure. I'll switch with you.
-I'll get low. -[Eun-sil] I'll take the left side, okay?
[Dong-hyun] Go for it.
[urgent music plays]
-[Dulguun] Go! Khanda! -Hurry!
[Eun-sil] Ugh!
[Adiyasuren] Nice block, Khanda! Nice job! Just stay there!
[Sung-bin] Okay, just hold it. Good.
She can't push back.
[Dong-hyun] Go and help her, Seung-yeon.
Ochir, run!
[exclaims]
One, two, three! Come on, hold.
One two three!
One, two, three! Here, like this. Get down.
[exclaims]
-I should go. -[Sung-bin] No, wait, hold on!
-There's three! Somebody go! -Here. We can handle it. Go!
[Dong-hyun] One, two, three!
-[Dong-hyun, Eun-sil] One, two, three! -[Enkh-Orgil] Ugh!
[Enkh-Orgil] I was fired up.
I could feel my blood boiling with the desire to win.
One, two, three!
We were so close to victory.
One, two, three! One, two, three!
-[Eun-sil] One, two, three! -[Enkh-Orgil] Even harder!
You've made it over! Just hold your ground!
[Amotti] One, two, three!
One, two, three!
Min-jae. Stance.
One, two, three! One, two, three!
We're still losing here.
[Dong-hyun] Let's go, you three! We can't lose!
We're close!
Let's try it again. More force, okay?
On my count.
[Dong-hyun] We were losing ground and running out of time.
But we just had to keep going.
Ready!
One, two, three! Push!
[Adiyasuren] Nice job, you two. Let's go again.
[Dong-hyun] It was endless. Step after step, they pushed back.
We were powerless.
Mongolia was unshakable.
[Adiyasuren] They're weaker now,
but they're watching our counting.
[Dulguun] It'll be fine, we're doing great.
[Sung-bin] All right, Min-jae. Let's push.
[Sung-bin, Amotti] One, two, three!
They still won't budge!
[both grunting, panting]
-[Amotti] One, two. -[Sung-bin] Harder, Min-jae.
[all straining]
Just tell us when.
We may have lost the first round,
but I learned something very important.
I knew how strong we could be with Min-jae,
so I didn't know why we were being overpowered.
That's when I realized that, if we didn't all push at the same time,
the force wasn't as strong.
So I thought, if we can all push in unison,
we could maybe overpower them.
-We gotta push with Min-jae. -[Amotti] Okay.
Hey Min-jae, you cue us in. On three.
[Min-jae] One, two, three!
[grunting]
[Min-jae] One, two, three!
[strains]
[Min-jae] One, two, three!
[Sung-bin] That's it! Keep pushing, keep pushing!
-[Amotti] Harder! -[Sung-bin] Come on, guys! Push!
Keep pushing, keep pushing!
-[Amotti] Harder! -[Sung-bin] Come on, guys! Push!
Okay, that's it! That's it!
[Mongolian team straining, grunting]
Are we back on our side?
[Min-jae] One, two, three!
-[Korean team straining] -[Sung-bin] Keep pushing, keep pushing!
[Sung-bin] Come on, guys! Push!
That's great! Now hold!
Hey, come on! Let's go! Come here!
Wait, you go over there.
-Come here! We need help! -[Amotti] Hurry! Before they push back!
-[Khandsuren] Go, go! Go, go, go! -Over here!
[Amotti] One, two, three!
-[Dong-hyun] One, two, three! -[Sung-bin] That's it! Three!
-[Adiyasuren] One, two, three! -Push!
[Dulguun] All of a sudden, we lost control of the center lane.
Korea unleashed an offensive attack and caught us all off-guard.
Not only had they overpowered us,
they did so in the final minute of the game.
-[Dulguun] One, two, three! -[Adiyasuren] Two, three!
-[Adiyasuren] Again! One, two-- -[Orkhonbayar] Run to the small wall.
-[Adiyasuren] What? -[Orkhonbayar] That one.
-We need to push it. I'll tell you. -[Adiyasuren] When?
One, two, three, push! Okay! One, two, three!
[Orkhonbayar] Go, Adiya! Go!
Go, go, go! Sung-bin, hurry! Go, go!
[dramatic music playing]
[Sung-bin grunts]
-What's your call? -[grunts]
[Orkhonbayar] Okay, push. Dulguun! Go over!
-You too, Ochir! Come on! Push! -[Dulguun] Go back! Come on!
Run, Amotti! Go, go, go! Come on! Go!
[Eun-sil] Ten seconds!
[Dong-hyun] Run, Amotti!
-Go, go, go! Come on! -[Eun-sil] No, Sung-bin! Turn around!
[Sung-bin grunts]
[Enkh-Orgil] One, two, three!
-[Amotti] Hold on, guys! -Come on, hold!
-[whistle blows] -[Sung-bin] Hold.
[Korean team cheers]
[Dong-hyun] We did it!
-Yeah! -[Master] Stop.
-We won, guys. Nice. -[Master] The match has ended.
[Master] The winner of round two is Korea.
[Dong-hyun] Hey, we're stronger! We're stronger!
-Killed it with that lead. -You're good…
-…at the start. -Gotta support Min-jae.
[Dong-hyun] Yeah, you're right. [pants]
[Min-jae] I'd used up a lot of stamina.
So I was a little disoriented.
But even though I was tired…
I was having fun. Because we could take 'em on.
So I had to win this, even if it killed me.
I was going to mow them down with those boxes.
-They're not gonna miss a box. -[Dong-hyun] Right.
-I'll do it again. Yeah. -[Dong-hyun] You?
'Cause you're the fastest.
-Yeah, exactly. -Okay, so if we're doing that,
then the rest of us go center. Is that good?
[Dong-hyun] Now that we had a winning strategy,
Mongolia didn't stand a chance.
Sung-bin was already the fastest one there,
but combined with Min-jae's strength and everyone else,
we were unstoppable.
We passed the line earlier.
-It was fast. -We should've held.
I think they waited until we held.
Support like this. And try to use your knees.
[Enkh-Orgil] Obviously, I wasn't happy that we lost.
I think our biggest mistake was our positioning.
We tried to hold off Korea by pushing back, but it didn't work.
[Orkhonbayar] After our defeat in the second round,
I knew we had to update our strategy.
They were strongest as one unit, so if we wanted to weaken them,
we had to spread them thin.
Separated, they wouldn't stand a chance.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Master] Final Quest. First game: the Wall-Pushing Match.
Round three will begin at the sound of the whistle.
[exhaling sharply]
[Master] Stand by.
Ready.
-[whistle blows] -[Amotti] Okay, let's push.
-[Orkhonbayar] Ram into it! -[Dong-hyun] All right, push.
[Orkhonbayar] Ram into it!
-[Amotti] Okay, let's push. -[Dong-hyun] All right, push, push.
All right, push, push.
-[Amotti] He's good over there. -[Dong-hyun] One, two. Push!
One, two. Push!
[Khandsuren] My job was to isolate Sung-bin.
If I could keep him on the first lane, he couldn't reinforce on the second.
But I couldn't do it alone.
[Khandsuren exclaims]
-[Amotti] Push! -[Khandsuren] Orgil!
-[Korean team] One, two. Push! -One, two, three.
[Korean team] One, two, push! One, two, push!
One, two, push! One, two, push! One, two, push! One, two, push!
-Dong-hyun, there! Go! -Hey, he's going! Sung-bin, run!
[Sung-bin groans]
[Eun-sil] Keep going!
[Sung-bin groans]
[Korean team] Push!
[Sung-bin] All we had to do was hold our position.
That's how we'd win.
-[Korean team] One, two. Push! -[Amotti] Okay, guys. Hold!
-One, two. Push! -Get ready to push. One, two.
-[Korean team] One, two. Push! -[grunting, breathing heavily]
[Amotti] It was working. On lane one, Sung-bin was maintaining our lead.
And in the center, Min-jae kept Mongolia from advancing.
Playing defensively was very beneficial. It gave us more insight.
Hold it! Hold it! Hold on.
[Khandsuren] Okay? Hold, hold, hold!
[Sung-bin] I need backup!
Somebody help me! Hurry!
One, two, three! [grunts] Good.
[Enkh-Orgil] One, two, three.
-One, two, three. -All right.
-I'll go. You can go, Eun-sil! -[Eun-sil] No, I'll go.
-Go for it! -[Eun-sil] You sure? I got it.
-Come here. -[Eun-sil] Sorry.
Hey, no worries. You're good.
Push, push, push. [grunts]
One, two, Sung-bin. One, two, push!
-One, two… -One, two. Push!
[Enkh-Orgil] One.
-Two. Got it! -Assume the position and hold!
One. Two.
-Three. [pants] -Assume the position.
[Sung-bin] Ready? One, two! [grunts]
-[Eun-sil] One, two. [grunts] -[Sung-bin groans]
[Eun-sil] One, two.
-[Sung-bin] Keep pushing! -[Eun-sil] Okay.
[Dong-hyun] Get low. Try to push back more, you two.
You're struggling.
[Amotti] Okay, okay.
-Hold, hold, hold. -[Amotti] All right.
Hold. Let's push in sync with their chant.
-[Dong-hyun] One, two. Push! -Wait a minute.
[Amotti] No. We need to match with Min-jae.
Hold!
[Min-jae] When pushing, you had to watch your timing.
And the best time to go on offense was when they switched to defense.
-Ready? Okay. -[Dulguun] Ready.
-One, two, three. Push! Good job. -[Dulguun] One, two, three.
-Okay. One, two, three! -[Dong-hyun] One, two. Push!
-[Min-jae] One, two, three. -[Dong-hyun] Go lower!
-One, two. Push! -[Min-jae] One, two, three.
-One, two, three! -[Dong-hyun] Go lower!
One, two, three.
-[Amotti] Hey. -One, two…
[Dong-hyun] Come on!
-[Min-jae] One, two… -[Dong-hyun] Come on!
-One, two, push! One, two-- -[Min-jae] Come on.
-No, wait, let's hold. -Okay.
-[Orkhonbayar] How are they doing that? -[strains]
[Adiyasuren] Okay. One, two, three!
[Enkh-Orgil grunts]
[Orkhonbayar] How were they able to overpower us?
We were giving it everything we had.
But every time we took a step forward,
they pushed us two steps back.
We should've been stronger,
but Korea seemed to have the technical skills to hold us off.
[Dong-hyun] One, two, push!
-One, two, heave! -[Min-jae] Hold, hold, hold!
-[Dong-hyun] One, two-- -[Amotti] Wait!
-Sorry. What is it? -We need to hold.
[Khandsuren] We need to push back.
Holding isn't working.
[tense music playing]
-[Enkh-Orgil] One, two! -[box thuds]
[Dong-hyun] Whoa, hold on! Sung-bin, lower!
Don't angle towards us, face forward!
-Get ready to push. One… [grunts] -[Eun-sil] Okay.
-Push farther! We're halfway done. -One, two, three.
[Eun-sil] One, two…
[Dong-hyun] Push!
[Amotti] Hey Min-jae,
let us know when you're ready. All right?
One, two.
-[Dong-hyun] Push! -Hold on.
[Min-jae] One, two.
-[Dong-hyun] Push! -Hold on.
-[Adiyasuren] All right, come on. -[Enkh-Orgil] One, two, three.
-[Orkhonbayar] One, two, three. -[Adiyasuren] Again.
[Amotti] Let's just wait. We can go when we're ready. Min-jae?
-[Orkhonbayar] One, two, three. -[Adiyasuren] Again.
[dramatic music playing]
[Min-jae] When I glanced at our opponents,
they looked puzzled and worried.
That's when I knew they were done.
[Dong-hyun] Let's try again. One, two!
[screams]
[Korean team screaming]
[Orkhonbayar] Keep holding, keep holding! Come on!
[Dulguun] One, two.
[Orkhonbayar] Keep holding, keep holding! Come on!
[Orkhonbayar] Suddenly, they pushed us again.
It was noticeably stronger than what we'd felt before.
And that's when I realized how powerful they were.
-[Amotti] You good? -Hold! Please, hold!
Dulguun! Leave that and come here!
[Enkh-Orgil] Come help us! Somebody, anybody!
[Adiyasuren] Wait, wait, wait!
[Enkh-Orgil] It looked like the center lane was a lost cause.
That's why I asked them to come help Khanda and I.
[Dulguun] Ready? One, two--
-[Orkhonbayar] Three! Run! -Okay.
-[Dulguun] Okay. -[Orkhonbayar] Run!
[dramatic music playing]
[Dong-hyun] I'll go too.
-[Dulguun] One, two. -[Enkh-Orgil] Two, three!
[Mongolian team straining]
Come on, Min-jae! Help us out!
[Sung-bin] Push!
One, two, push!
One, two, three!
-Come on. Ready? -[Enkh-Orgil] Harder! One!
[Khandsuren] Minute thirty!
[Orkhonbayar] Khanda, run back over.
-You sure? -Go on, go.
Go, go, go! Push!
You're doing great! That's it. Spread out!
Two, three!
Come here. Come on!
Go! Hurry up! Go!
[Amotti] Two, three, push!
[Dong-hyun] Go!
-All right, push! -Okay.
[all] One, two, three!
-Push on three. -All right.
-[all] One! -Dong-hyun, we need you!
[all] One, two, three!
[grunting]
[Amotti] Min-jae, let's hold!
[grunting]
[Amotti] Push forward in one, two…
[Master] One minute.
[Adiyasuren] One, two, three, push! Push!
One, two, three, push! Push!
[Orkhonbayar] One, two, three!
Keep pushing, guys!
One, two, three!
-Keep pushing, guys! -Again! One, two…
Two! Three!
One, two, three!
[Dulguun] We were desperate, and we were running out of time.
So we returned to the center lane, hoping we could take it for ourselves.
And yet…
-[Adiyasuren] No, no! -[both] One, two!
[Amotti] Okay, we should push now.
[Min-jae] One, two, three!
[all grunting]
Finish 'em off!
[grunting]
[all grunting]
[Dong-hyun grunts] Okay!
[panting]
We just need to hold!
-Hold! -Twenty!
Spread out.
Go that way.
[Dong-hyun] Hey! Someone's coming!
One more push! One, two, three.
-Come on! -[yells]
-One, two! Push! -One, two!
[Dulguun] One, two, three!
[Amotti] Three! Two! One!
-[whistle blows] -We did it!
[cheering]
-[Master] Stop. Game over. -Yeah!
[cheers]
[dramatic music plays]
[Master] The winner of round three is Korea.
Oh, man.
-You killed it, great! -Nice job.
-Let's go! All right! -Nice job, Min-jae.
[Dong-hyun] Sung-bin! Come on, get up here!
You did it, man!
Great job, Sung-bin.
Seriously, man. I'm proud of you.
Way to be the team sled!
[Sung-bin] That first game was exhausting.
My limbs felt like jelly. I could hardly move my legs.
It was rough at first.
But we managed to turn it around by the end.
So I was happy. We all were.
[Amotti] Min-jae and Sung-bin won us this game. Mongolia's strong.
But those two made us stronger.
One strong push from Min-jae, and boom! That was it.
They just crumbled.
As expected from The Strongest Man Under Heaven.
Wow. Now that…
that was the strength of Korea.
-Hey, it's okay. We're okay. -We are fine.
-We did our best. -[sighs]
-[Dulguun] Yes, exactly. -Hey.
How did they do that so easily?
It's hard losing when you think you can win.
We were too scattered and didn't have enough strength.
But even though we lost the first game, I'm not too worried.
We still have two more games to go.
We just need to focus.
We can still win this competition.
[suspenseful music plays]
[Master] Physical: Asia. Final quest.
Team Mongolia, since you were defeated in the first game,
you must now choose the second game.
The remaining games are…
the infinite tail tag match,
and the Iron Ball Dragging Match.
[Orkhonbayar] All right. Should we play tag, or drag the ball?
[all whispering]
[Amotti] What do you think they'll pick?
[Sung-bin] Hopefully not tag.
The last game proved that our team was stronger than theirs
so I was kind of hoping for the iron ball.
But that would put them at a disadvantage, right?
So, I assumed they'd pick tag.
We can't lose this. We need to pick what we're good at.
Right.
Honestly, I think if we pick the running game,
they have a good chance of winning.
Yeah, remember the treadmills? When we were fighting for that map?
[Enkh-Orgil] Before the fifth quest, we'd done a mini running challenge.
And Team Korea ended up beating us by quite a bit.
They were intense. It was almost scary to see.
The iron ball is better.
-That what we're going with? -Hold on.
I mean, that last game…
they were clearly stronger.
[Orkhonbayar] We kind of went back and forth for a while.
But we had to play to our strengths.
[Master] The time for deliberation has come to an end.
[dramatic music plays]
Captain of Team Mongolia, Orkhonbayar Bayarsaikhan.
Please reveal the game you have chosen.
Let's see.
Our team has chosen the Iron Ball Dragging Match.
[Orkhonbayar] Our team has chosen the Iron Ball Dragging Match.
[Amotti] Wow.
That's good for us. It works in our favor.
[Amotti] Sure, we could win. But it wouldn't come easy.
I knew that weight class and overall body weight
would make a difference here.
And comparatively speaking, their team seemed to be a bit heavier than ours.
I was worried about that.
Strength is one thing. But if you want to measure power,
based on weight class, I think Mongolia's got us beat there.
It's gonna be tough.
[Khandsuren] Strength test round two.
[Dulguun] Let's do it.
We should do iron ball.
Yeah, I think that's better.
I mean, that last game they were clearly stronger.
I don't think they were stronger.
They just had better tactics.
We can win this. We're strong enough.
I think that it's not really fair to assume
one team's stronger than the other based on one game.
And when it comes to sheer power, I have no doubt we're the best.
So I didn't feel discouraged at all.
It's a power game. So, if we managed to win here,
we'd also be wearing them down.
And if we did that, we'd have a better chance at winning game three.
Can't run fast when you're tired.
-[suspenseful music plays] -[Master] Physical: Asia.
Final quest. The second game
is the iron ball dragging match.
It's about to begin.
This ends here, okay?
[Amotti] As fast as we can.
[all gasping]
[Sung-bin] Okay, that looks like a wrecking ball.
[Dong-hyun] That looks heavy. Painfully heavy.
[Khandsuren] I wasn't sure how we'd hold the ropes.
[Seung-yeon] And just off to the side you could see three more balls.
I wasn't sure if all three were gonna be used, or just one or two.
[Master] In this game
all six members of your team
will be tethered to a large, iron ball.
Your goal is to work together to reach
and touch your team's designated flag.
Doesn't this kinda feel like we're getting leashed like dogs?
I see some wood planks. Let's use them for leverage.
[Master] There are five footholds within each lane.
-[all] Two! -[grunting]
[Orkhonbayar] Again.
You have three minutes to complete your goal.
If you do not reach the flag within three minutes,
you will fail the round.
This game will consist of five rounds.
Every round, the weight will increase proportionally
to the sum of each team's combined weight.
-Okay. So a fivefold increase? -Yeah.
So, as it turns out, Korea actually has a weight average
that's higher than ours.
Which meant that they had to carry more weight than us.
It was very advantageous.
[Master] Starting with round one,
each team will take turns completing the challenge.
ORDER OF PLAY WAS DETERMINED BY DRAWING LOTS
If both teams manage to pass,
they will continue into the next round.
Okay, interesting.
[Master] If one team ends up failing,
then the game will end,
and the team that passed will be declared the winner.
So if they fail, we gotta win that round.
[Master] If there is no determined winner,
then both teams will compete in a final, simultaneous round.
The team that reaches the flag first
will be declared the winner.
[Dong-hyun] Uh.
[tense music plays]
[Dong-hyun] I think it's safe to say that in the last game,
we felt the might of Mongolia's warriors.
But no matter how strong our opponents are,
Korea will face them head on.
We'll continue to persevere
as we've done throughout this competition,
as that's the Korean spirit.
And we will be victorious. This right here, this second game,
will also be the last game.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] We promise to keep things interesting.
So don't let your guard down for even a second.
We've come too far to lose now.
I will give it everything I've got.
-[Master] Physical: Asia. -[suspenseful music plays]
Final quest, second game.
The iron ball dragging match.
Round one.
Mongolia will go first.
[Dong-hyun] Wait, why is their wrestler down there?
-[Amotti] Not sure. -Weird.
I know, I've been trying to figure it out.
[Sung-bin] I assumed that Orkhonbayar would be center.
But instead,
he was actually off to the side, which was unexpected.
They had Adiyasuren in the middle.
[Amotti] And Dulguun was in the middle too.
I wondered why Orkhonbayar was off to the side.
It's because I'm the tallest. I could reach the flag first.
Here, do this.
-[Dulguun] Yeah, it's longer. -Exactly.
[Orkhonbayar] Dulguun had a significantly longer reach than the rest of us.
By putting him in the middle,
we could reach the flag from further away.
Still, he was going to need some extra support there,
which is why Adiya and I stood on either side of him.
[Dulguun] Whatever formation we made,
our main goal was to distribute the weight evenly on both sides.
Let's show 'em what we're made of.
That's right. Go team!
[Dong-hyun] Let's watch.
Let's see how they do this.
[Master] Stand by.
[tense music plays]
Ready.
Remember, we have three whole minutes.
-[whistle blows] -No need to run.
Light steps.
-[whistle blows] -No need to run.
-Light steps. That's right. -[Dulguun] Slow and steady.
[Eun-sil] Oh, they're slow.
[Sung-bin] They're pacing themselves.
[Dong-hyun] Hmm.
[Adiyasuren] The first round was gonna be the easiest.
So we decided to take things slowly
so we could get a feel for what worked for us.
-[grunts] -Careful.
Slow and steady.
-Careful. -Slow and steady.
[Enkh-Orgil] It wasn't that heavy.
[Khandsuren] Turns out the first round was pretty easy.
-[chuckles] -[whistle blows]
Wow, I barely even pulled and we still made it.
[Master] Stop. The round has ended.
It doesn't look too heavy.
-[Eun-sil] At least for now. -Yeah.
[Sung-bin] It's lighter than it looks.
[Master] Mongolia. The Iron Ball Dragging Match.
Round one. Success.
Korea will be going second.
Hey, we should all pace ourselves to start.
It's a team effort, okay.
Let's combine our strength.
[Sung-bin] In this kind of exercise, you have to move in unison.
You don't want anyone to feel burdened,
or like they're adding to the overall weight.
[Dong-hyun] Let's see, what order should we go in?
-Min-jae, here. -Yeah, you go here.
[Sung-bin] Stand in the center as our anchor.
Then one person on each end to even it out. Great.
[Sung-bin] Balancing our team was the hardest part.
We didn't want our force to disperse out in a V shape.
So, to prevent that, we put our strongest guys in the middle of the line.
[Eun-sil] That way, our force was always directed center.
[Enkh-Orgil] We should pay attention to their movements.
They might have some cool techniques.
[suspenseful music plays]
Their ball is ten kilos more, right?
[Master] Stand by.
-All right, let's go. -Feel it out.
[Master] Ready.
-[whistle blows] -[dramatic music plays]
[whistle blows]
Oh, now I feel it.
[Amotti] Okay. We're starting off easy.
[Sung-bin] Uh, what? It was super light.
[Min-jae] No wonder it looked so effortless,
it just was.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] As we were watching Korea in the first round,
I noticed that they moved with the same amount of ease as we did.
[Dong-hyun] Okay. Here we go.
[whistle blows]
-It's really light. -Yeah, it is.
[Master] Stop. Success.
Korea. Round one. Success.
Round two.
Team Mongolia.
[whistle blows]
-One, two. -Left. Right.
-Okay.
[Orkhonbayar] Even though it was heavier,
the weight on the second round didn't feel that different from the first round.
-Left! -[whistle blows]
[Master] Mongolia. Success.
Round two. Team Korea.
[whistle blows]
[Sung-bin] Come on, quickly, come on.
[Dong-hyun] Nice, this is also pretty light.
[Amotti] Round two? Easy.
-[whistle blows] -Super easy.
[Master] Korea. Success.
Iron Ball Dragging Match, round three.
-Team Mongolia. -[whistle blows]
-One, two. -One, two.
Bend forward.
[Dulguun] All together.
-One… -Okay, let's go.
One, two. All right.
[Eun-sil] They're so low to the ground.
They're using gravity to help them out.
[Orkhonbayar] The third round was when it started to feel heavier.
To make it easier,
I thought we could try crawling together so that we didn't strain our backs.
[Enkh-Orgil] We just gotta touch it!
[whistle blows]
[Master] Round three. Success.
[Sung-bin] We should lean forward too.
[Dong-hyun] Let's do it.
[Master] Round three.
-Team Korea, begin. -[whistle blows]
One, two.
[Dong-hyun] Here we go.
[Amotti] Lean forward, guys.
[Amotti] If we didn't want to get hurt, we had to lower our center of gravity.
[all] One, two.
[Khandsuren] Same method as us.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] Yep.
-One, two. -One, two.
[Min-jae] It was still manageable,
but I could tell that the next round would be challenging.
[Eun-sil] Okay, grab it.
[whistle blows]
[Master] Round three, success.
More weight will now be added.
Something tells me it's about to get a lot heavier.
Here we go.
[Eun-sil] Wow, there's three.
[Orkhonbayar] These last two rounds
will be the hardest.
This one's gonna be tough.
[Adiyasuren] I was starting to get nervous.
I wasn't sure how it'd feel.
[Dulguun] Given the amount of weight we were dealing with,
I figured it was going to be a long and painful trip.
[Master] Iron Ball Dragging Match. Round four.
Team Mongolia.
Okay. As soon as we get to the boards, let's go down.
We should try to reach over our heads too,
-like we're digging. -Yeah.
[Adiyasuren] It's kind of like climbing a tree, right?
-Mm-hmm. -[Master] Stand by.
[Dong-hyun] Please fail.
Once they fail, that's our opening.
[Master] Ready.
I believe in my team.
Together, we're capable of anything.
[whistle blows]
One, two, three.
[whistle blows]
One, two, three. Get down.
One, two.
Keep going.
[Adiyasuren] My stomach dropped.
This, it wasn't just heavy, it felt almost impossible to deal with.
-Come on. -Hold on.
-One, two. -Okay, I'm good.
One, two, three.
[Min-jae] It's too heavy.
Not so light anymore.
-Okay, one, two, three! Crawl. -Ready, set, go.
One, two, reach.
-[Dulguun] All right. -One…
All right. Come on.
One. Two.
[Dulguun] Round four was brutal.
We were struggling to gain a foothold, and moved painfully slow.
-Two. -Come on.
-One. Two. Reach! -Shoot!
[Dong-hyun] They're almost there.
[Amotti] Wow.
-One, two. -Almost!
Try grabbing it.
-One, two. Two. One. -Stretch!
[Adiyasuren] Because we were all bent over, we couldn't coordinate our breathing
which knocked us off-balance.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] We needed to combine our strength,
so working in unison was crucial.
But that's easier said than done.
Two, pull! [grunts]
Almost… Shoot!
-Okay. One, two, three. -Go.
-Reach! -Get it! That's it, right there.
-[whistle blows] -Got it.
-[Master] Success. -Twenty-nine seconds.
[Orkhonbayar] It's only getting heavier.
[Master] Mongolia. Round four. Success.
[Orkhonbayar] I think it's harder 'cause we're not in sync.
We need to fix that next time.
We're not together.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] We gotta chant louder.
-We should count together. Okay? -We can't count separately.
[Khandsuren] We should try to have a designated leader,
or else it'll happen again.
[Sung-bin] We can't be that scattered.
One, two!
On the beat.
Chant exactly like that.
And step together too.
Everyone needs to move at the same pace.
[Master] Iron Ball Dragging Match, round four.
Team Korea.
[Amotti] Let's do this. Stay together.
[Master] Stand by.
We should watch them.
Yeah, let's see what they do.
[Dulguun] I knew it was going to be just as difficult for them as it was for us,
so I was selfishly hoping they'd manage to slip up.
[Master] Ready.
[Seung-yeon] I tried to be in the moment as much as possible.
I didn't want to distract myself or stress out.
-[whistle blows] -Come on.
[Amotti] Come on. Hook your foot here. Okay.
[all grunting]
Oh!
[all] One, two!
One, two!
[Amotti] One, two!
Whoa.
One, two!
[Amotti] My upper body lifted a lot more than I anticipated.
I kept trying to stabilize, but it wasn't really working.
[Seung-yeon] It felt like I couldn't properly apply my strength.
-One, two. -Go lower.
-I'm trying. One, two. -Lower. One, two.
[all] One, two.
[groans]
[Eun-sil] It was heavy.
I kept myself as low as I could, but I couldn't keep up.
-[Amotti] Use your foot to push off. -[Dong-hyun] Hook it under.
-One, two. -One.
See how the two on the end are lagging?
-Yeah, few of them seem to be struggling. -Yeah.
-One, two. -One, two.
-[Amotti] Use your foot to push off. -[Dong-hyun] Hook it under.
One, two.
[Amotti] For our plan to work, we had to move together.
But, just like Mongolia, we got a little out of sync.
-Grab it. -[Min-jae] One, two…
-[Eun-sil] Reach! -[Amotti] Grab it.
-There. -All right.
[Sung-bin] Man, that's heavy.
[Master] Success.
I think we were faster.
-[Dong-hyun] By one second. -[Amotti] Yeah.
[Master] Korea. Round four: success.
-Well, we appear to be evenly matched. -Yeah.
Man, you're kidding.
[Amotti] I remember thinking, "How? How did Mongolia do it?"
I assumed they'd look as tired as we did, but they looked fine.
Mongolia was a real threat.
-[Dong-hyun] We were too off-beat. -[Eun-sil] Totally.
[Dong-hyun] We needed to stay in sync, but we didn't.
We have to stay together and move as a team.
[exhales] Man, that hurts…
[Seung-Yeon] After the fourth round, my legs were really strained,
especially my calves and hamstrings.
I felt out of breath too.
But it wasn't over yet. The worst was yet to come.
[Master] More weight will now be added.
[Orkhonbayar] All right, we've got four. This is it.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] We knew the last round would be the hardest.
[Adiyasuren] We had a plan, but
whether or not we could execute it remained to be seen.
[Dulguun] I was prepared for the worst.
[Eun-sil] Could we do it? I genuinely didn't know.
[Master] Iron Ball Dragging Match, round five.
Team Mongolia.
Let's see this through. We got this!
Okay, ready?
[Master] Stand by.
Ready.
[whistle blows]
Don't run.
-Ready? -Hold on.
-[Enkh-orgil] Ready? -[Orkhonbayar] Hold on.
-[Lkhagva-Ochir] Ready? -[Orkhonbayar] Go ahead.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] It felt impossible.
[Dulguun] It felt like we were trying to drag a mountain.
No matter what I did, I couldn't move.
Okay, one, two!
Come on.
It's not easy. I'm tired just watching them.
One, two. Okay, good. It's up now.
All right, all together now.
One, two--
Reach!
One, two!
-Together! -Reach.
[Dulguun] One, two!
[Orkhonbayar] Okay.
-One, two! -One, two!
-Again. -Okay.
-One, two! -One, two!
[Enkh-orgil] This time, we would combine our strength and move as one.
Two!
[Khandsuren] At the end of the day,
winning the Iron Ball drag would depend on two things.
Better team cooperation, and better utilization of momentum.
[Dong-hyun] They're all chanting together, right?
Let's do that as well the next time we go.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] Even though we were struggling,
I knew we could do it by working together.
One, two!
-Wait! I've got it. -Reach for it!
[Dulguun] Wait, wait. I need a sec.
[Orkhonbayar] Okay, step off the plank.
-Everyone step! -[Adiyasuren] Ready?
One, two!
-Reach for it! Come on! -I can't.
-Come on! -I can't.
Ready? One, two, three!
-[Sung-bin] They're just out of reach. -They're falling short at the end.
[Dulguun] Without another wooden plank in front of us,
we couldn't move forward.
The only way we could reach the flag was if we propelled ourselves.
Dulguun! Use me as support!
Grab it.
We need to support the legs! Come on.
Let's push from behind.
-[Lkhagva-Ochir] Come on. I've got you. -We can do it, okay?
[all] One, two. Ready? Three!
[all] Two! Ready! Three!
-You close? -No.
-Okay… -Fifty-four seconds.
My mind was racing. Was this it for us?
-All together, now. -Okay.
-Let's go! -[all] One, two, three!
[all grunting, groaning]
-Again! -Okay.
-Ready? -[all] One! Two! Three!
[all groaning, grunting]
-Almost! -[all] Okay, one! Two!
Three!
We still have time.
[Master] Success. Mongolia. Round five: success.
-Wow. -They did it.
Just barely, too.
Seeing just how hard they were working made me realize how heavy ours would be.
[Master] Iron Ball Dragging Match, round five. Team Korea.
So each foothold, we go "One, two!" Right?
-On three. One, two, three! -Count to three.
Just try to keep in time with us. Everyone should match Amotti.
Steps and chanting.
We're the center, Min-jae. It's all on us.
[Master] Stand by.
Ready? We can do it.
-Steady. Don't psych yourselves out. -[Master] Ready.
-[whistle blows] -[Amotti] Okay, let's take it slow.
First foothold. Everyone down.
Everyone down. Get ready to step.
-[all] One, two, three! -[Dong-hyun] Nice.
-Hook your foot. -Okay, one, two, three!
-It's okay. It's okay. -Good, good.
One, two, three!
[Amotti] Okay. It worked.
-One, two, three! -[all] three!
-Wait a sec. -Hold on, guys.
-[Amotti] It's okay. Wait a sec. -[Seung-yeon] Hold on, guys.
-Got it. -Please slip.
Please.
-Wait a sec. -Hold on, guys.
[Seung-yeon] I felt pretty helpless out there.
It was hard to control my body so I couldn't really use my strength.
-Oh, come on… -Okay, one, two--
[Eun-sil] In Round Five it was absurdly heavy.
I had a hard time staying on the ground. It kept pulling me up.
It was hard. But as long as we had Min-jae,
we were going to win.
Our new strategy was to follow Min-jae's lead.
He'd tell us when he was ready, and then he'd cue us in.
All right. You ready?
[all] One, two, three!
-[Sung-bin] Okay. -[Dong-hyun] Okay.
[all] Three!
-[Sung-bin] Okay. -[Dong-hyun] Okay.
-There they go. -They're moving.
[all] One, two, three.
There, much easier. Keep going, Min-jae.
[all] One, two, three!
-[Sung-bin] Good! -[Dong-hyun] Let's go again.
-[Amotti] Ready? -[all] One, two, three!
-[Sung-bin] Great. -Okay, hook, hook!
Come on…
[Eun-sil] Every time I went to grab the next plank,
it was always just out of reach.
And then…
Don't float up.
Sung-bin actually grabbed my wrist.
[all] One, two, three.
-Okay. -Got it.
I've got it.
[all] One, two three.
[Amotti] Dig your foot in.
[Dong-hyun] Then suddenly, I felt my strength dwindling.
[Amotti] It felt off. Something was wrong.
Our strength wasn't unified. We were all scattered.
Min-jae, your feet. Hook your feet. It's fine, you can do it.
Hook your feet. Come on.
-Hold on… -Just dig them into the sand.
It's my legs. [grunts]
[Min-jae] I slipped when reaching for the next plank.
[all] One, two, three.
[Min-jae] I had no foothold, so I just laid there,
holding onto the plank so I didn't get dragged away.
[Dong-hyun] One, two, three.
[Sung-bin] Watch your feet, Min-jae. Okay? Watch your feet.
Yeah, hook 'em, hook 'em.
Wait…
[Min-jae] I kept trying to fix my foot, but every time I moved, I floated up.
-I'm sorry. I just… -We'll help you. Are you ready?
-Let's try to pull him forward. -One, two, three!
-[Amotti] Okay. -[Min-jae] Okay.
-[Sung-bin] You got it? Great. -[Min-jae] Yeah.
Yeah, that's the part that nearly did us in. There.
-[Lkhagva-ochir] That stretch? -[Orkhonbayar] Yep.
-[all] One, two, three! -[grunting]
One, two, three!
[Dong-hyun] Okay.
[all grunting]
-You gotta pull as much as you can. -Yeah.
Min-jae, bury your feet. You gotta fix your feet.
Come on, you got it.
-[Dong-hyun] Let's go. -Ready?
[all] One, two, three!
[Dong-hyun] Okay! Got it.
Almost there.
-[all] One, two, three! -Come on!
One, two, three!
-Go! -Almost!
-One more, guys. -Let's do it.
[all] One, two, three!
[grunts]
Shoot.
They're getting close.
Less than a minute left.
-Let's give it another go. -Yeah. We've got it.
[all] One, two, three!
Reach!
-All right, we did it! -[whistle blows]
It's still the same.
Same time?
[tense music plays]
-We're tied. -Thirty-five!
Thirty-five exactly.
[Master] Korea. Round five, success.
Thirty-five.
-Got it. -All right, we did it!
[whistle blows]
-Okay. -Yeah,
thirty five seconds left.
-It took a while, didn't it? -Hmm.
[Amotti] I thought we would be faster,
but we weren't.
[Dong-hyun] That was the moment when I realized
just how close the competition was.
[whistle blows]
After the first game, I got the impression that we were stronger than Mongolia.
[grunting]
But their performance in the second game proved me wrong.
If we're not careful,
they're gonna snatch the win from us.
[Orkhonbayar] At that point, neither team seemed to be better than the other.
It was anyone's game, which meant the final round would be intense.
So it's whoever gets there the fastest?
[Orkhonbayar] Yep, first one there wins.
It'll be hard, but since it was 35-35,
we really need to push our speed.
-Yeah. -Exactly.
[Dulguun] Now's the time to start running.
One second can make a difference.
We need to go faster.
-So, every time we start to lift… -Yeah?
-Push as hard as you can. -Right, okay, push.
Min-jae, this time
don't lay down like this, okay?
It makes it harder.
From that position, you have no leverage.
You wanna be a bit lifted.
[Dong-hyun] You were just using your arms.
-[Min-jae] Yeah, 'cause my feet slipped. -Right.
All right, so, if that happens again…
-Uh-huh? Okay. -…you gotta dig your feet in.
[Min-jae] I slipped up a lot in round five.
I got kind of paranoid. I didn't wanna mess up.
So to calm myself, I tried to focus on my hand and foot placements.
[Master] Mongolia.
Korea.
Since no winner was decided,
we will proceed to a tiebreaker round.
[Dong-Hyun] It all comes down to this.
[Master] In this final round,
both teams will start simultaneously.
The team that reaches the flag first will be declared the winner.
The weight you will be pulling is the same amount you had in the fifth round.
It'll be close.
[Amotti] We gotta be fast.
We gotta win this tiebreaker.
Take this for ourselves.
[Dong-hyun] This was Mongolia's last hope,
and we were going to snuff it out
and crush them where they stood.
[Seung-yeon] We're not playing a third game.
We were going to end it here.
-Korea! -[all] Fight on!
[fast-paced music plays]
If we won the second game,
then we'd be tied with Korea.
That's why we were so determined to beat them.
Everything had come down to this.
[Orkhonbayar] I want Mongolia to win.
-[Orkhonbayar] Warriors! -[all] Mount up!
[eagle cries]
-All right. -Don't get distracted.
Let's go!
[Master] Stand by.
[Dong-hyun] This is the end.
-At first, remember to run. -[Amotti] Got it.
[Master] Ready.
[Enkh-Orgil] We are Mongolian warriors. We'd be faster.
[Eun-sil] We're gonna move fast and put an end to this.
-[whistle blows] -[fast-paced music plays]
[whistle blows]
[grunting]
[Sung-bin] Our plan was to run to the first foothold,
lower our stances, and push ourselves forward.
[all] One, two, three!
-One, two, three! -One, two, three!
[whistle blows]
[Enkh-Orgil] We kept it simple. Sprint to the first plank,
stop, drop, and use that momentum to propel ahead.
[Khandsuren] I tried to fall forward.
But somehow, I got pulled back.
It's okay, just get up.
Okay, one, two.
[Khandsuren] While everyone else pulled ahead,
I tried to quickly fix my position.
[Orkhonbayar] Okay, close. Grab the plank.
One, two, three!
-Got it! -All right!
Nice.
[Khandsuren] When I looked over at Korea,
I noticed that we were basically parallel to each other.
It was neck-and-neck.
-[Enkh-Orgil] You got it? -Ready?
[Orkhonbayar] Everybody hold on. Adiya.
One, two, three!
-[Adiyasuren] That's it! -Okay. One!
Two! Three!
-Again! -[all] One, two, three!
-There we go! -That's it.
One, two, three!
[Amotti] Reach. One, two, three!
[all] One, two, three!
[Amotti] That was the moment it finally clicked.
After trying and failing to stay in sync,
we finally figured out how to move as one unit.
[all] One, two, three.
One, two, three.
[tense music plays]
[Min-jae] As soon as I felt myself rising,
I was able to anchor myself with my hands and feet.
[all] One, two, three!
-[Amotti] Reach. One, two, three! -One, two, three!
[all] One, two, three!
One, two, three!
-One, two, three! -[grunts]
-One, two. -Three!
-We're good. -Use your feet.
[all] One! Two!
Three!
One! Two! Three!
[Enkh-Orgil] I planned on using every last ounce of strength.
I would keep fighting till my body collapsed.
[all] One, two, three!
[Dong-hyun] We were close. So close. It was right there.
Everything we'd been fighting for
was just out of arm's reach.
[Amotti] It was grueling, and we were desperate.
We wanted to win.
[all] One, two, three!
-[Amotti] Almost! -[all] One, two, three!
-One, two, three! -Come on, guys!
Come on!
[all] One, two, three!
One, two, three!
[Amotti] Come on, grab it!
[tense music plays]
-[all clamor] -[whistle blows]
[cheering]
-[cheering] -[whistle blows]
[cheering]
-[whistle blows] -[Enkh-Orgil] That's it?
[Orkhonbayar] All right.
Man, they were fast!
[Master] Game over.
[cheering]
[Seung-yeon cheering]
[cheering]
[Master] The winner is Korea.
[cheering]
-[Eun-sil] We won! -[Seung-yeon] Yeah!
[cheering]
[laughs]
[Eun-sil] No way!
[Amotti] Because of the weight, I just kind of fell backwards.
-[upbeat music plays] -Man, I was… I was so happy.
[Dong-hyun] All our wires got tangled together,
and we flew back, laughing like kids.
And as I looked around, I thought…
"We actually did it."
[Min-jae laughing]
[Min-jae] It was like a dream.
I don't know what else to say. I'm just kind of over the moon.
How I feel?
We actually won, we took first place!
I can't believe it.
I think we did pretty well.
-Better than before, right? -For sure.
Much better.
That's what's important, right?
[Orkhonbayar] Team Korea is amazing. They really surprised me.
I still don't know how they got there that fast.
[Khandsuren] I actually checked the clock when I heard the whistle.
And it only took them one minute.
Looking back on it, I do think I underestimated Korea just a bit.
They were really strong, it was undeniable.
[Dulguun] Of course, it's always somewhat disappointing.
But I was still so proud of my team.
[Adiyasuren] Even though we didn't win, I didn't have any regrets.
We got all the way to the finals, and we fought until the very end.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] Chin up, guys.
[Orkhonbayar] We made it far, team.
-We did a great job. -Yeah.
[Master] Physical: Asia.
The winner of Physical: Asia
is Team Korea.
[upbeat music plays]
[Dong-hyun] Ah! I can't believe it.
-Well done. -Thank you.
-Congratulations. -Thank you.
-You guys amazing. -Thank you.
[Khandsuren] Well done.
[Master] Kim Dong-hyun, as the Captain of Team Korea,
please share your final thoughts with us.
[Dong-hyun] Uh.
[clears throat]
First of all, I'm still in shock.
Halfway through the competition, I wasn't sure if we'd survive.
So it's amazing to see how far we've come.
But winning today
wouldn't have meant nearly as much without a worthy opponent.
Team Mongolia is a formidable team of incredible athletes.
They really kept us on our toes.
So I want to thank them for such a memorable final.
I'm so grateful for my team. And as captain,
honestly, I'm just so happy.
I still can't believe it.
[Master] Orkhonbayar Bayarsaikhan.
As the Captain of Team Mongolia, please,
-[somber music plays] -share your final thoughts with us.
From the start of the competition
to its end,
our only goal was to win.
And although we didn't achieve that goal,
we made great connections, learned a lot,
and got to be a part of an incredible competition.
Thank you.
[Lkhagva-Ochir] Even though we had lost,
I noticed that the Mongolian flag was still standing.
And when I saw that,
I approached to pay my respects.
[Orkhonbayar] Look at it go, still flying high.
-Right. -It is, huh?
Guess it's nice we didn't knock it over.
[somber music plays]
[Master] Physical: Asia.
This concludes the final quest.
Mongolia, you have been eliminated from Physical: Asia.
Please share your final thoughts.
And then destroy your torsos.
First, before anything else,
I'd like to congratulate Korea.
And I'd like to thank my teammates for being here with me.
[Orkhonbayar] I'm grateful I get to leave with no regrets.
We competed as best we could.
And as captain, I'm proud of our team.
[Enkh-Orgil] As a team, Korea's incredibly strong,
more so than I gave them credit for.
So I'd like to thank them for challenging us,
and helping us realize that we need to be stronger than we currently are.
We fought as warriors, bravely, with all our might.
That's all we could hope to accomplish. So I'm satisfied.
To our Captain, who was always cheering us on,
and who always had confidence in me… [sniffles]
[somber music plays]
[Adiyasuren] When I first arrived here,
I remember walking in and looking around
at all the other athletes in that room.
And I remember thinking,
"I don't know if I'm really that strong."
But even so,
I don't think I ever really felt scared, or ever worried about losing.
Because I had faith in my team.
-Orgil. -Yeah?
I think we can actually win this!
Yeah, we can.
[Adiyasuren] That's why I fought as hard as I did,
I wanted to make them proud.
-[cheering] -Way to go!
And that made me realize what I was capable of.
-[Orkhonbayar] Keep it up. -Great job, nice and easy.
[Adiyasuren] In the end I've realized how strong I actually am,
and how strong a judoka can be.
And I'm honored to have represented Mongolia.
It's been an honor to compete here
as a representative of Mongolia and our circus arts.
For the past ten years or so, I've been trying to answer this one question.
What other things can I do as a professional acrobat?
And I couldn't figure it out.
-[cheering] -[whistling]
What can I do with this physicality, these skills, this endurance?
And what else could I be capable of?
But being here, being a part of Physical: Asia,
has given me the opportunity
to really explore that question.
And because of that,
I think this has become an important turning point in my life.
[sighs]
I'll see you soon, buddy.
[upbeat music plays]
[Lkhagva-Ochir] I don't feel discouraged,
and I don't plan on stopping.
I'm gonna work harder.
I promise.
Of course I'm crying.
One thing I've realized while being here,
hmm,
is that you don't have to be perfect
or successful at everything you do.
[all] One! Two! Three!
[Khandsuren] More often than not, it's actually the act of doing something.
How it makes you feel.
[crying]
What you learn from it.
The kind of friends that you make.
One, two, three!
And the memories you create, that ends up mattering more…
You did so well!
[Khandsuren] …than getting the result you wanted.
To everyone at home, I hope we've made you proud,
and that you've felt a sense of joy in watching us.
And for everyone who has supported us, and continues to support us,
I just want to take a moment to thank you.
Watch me do this.
-[calm music plays] -[Master] Korea,
as the winners of Physical: Asia, please share your final thoughts.
I was an MMA fighter for about 20 years.
And throughout all those years, the championship belts,
all those gold medals, they were always out of reach.
Maybe I was unlucky, or maybe I just wasn't good enough.
I used to beat myself up for it all the time.
But winning Physical: Asia on behalf of Korea with this team
means more than any medal or belt I could've won on my own.
This is truly the honor of my career.
I'm just so grateful.
Man, I just…
[sighs]
I guess the tears are finally coming now.
Ah, man.
For me, it wasn't about any specific moment.
It's about our whole team, every step of the way.
[upbeat music plays]
Korea!
-Korea! -Korea!
Fight on!
[whistle blows]
-[Amotti] Get down, guys. Huddle. -Get in.
[Sung-bin] I don't feel very strong on my own.
[all] One, two, three!
[Sung-bin] But I feel strong with this team.
[all yelling, grunting]
Being together gives us all strength.
-Korea! -Fight on!
[yells]
Ultimately,
I think we managed to win
because we worked together as a team.
[Eun-sil] Through every high, and every low.
[all] One, two, three!
[Eun-sil] The six of us were together through it all.
[Dong-hyun] We can do this. It all comes down to willpower.
[Eun-sil] Through each and every step of the way,
[yells]
[Eun-sil] I felt myself grow stronger.
In the middle of the third quest when I did the rings challenge,
I was really, really struggling.
Obviously, I struggled physically, but even more so mentally.
[somber music plays]
I think that was probably my lowest point.
I just felt completely inadequate.
-I'm so sorry. -[Amotti] You did great.
-What are you talking about? -Don't you dare apologize.
You worked hard and did your best.
In spite of everything, my team continued to support me.
Even when I felt like giving up, they never did.
And it's because they never gave up on me
that I was able to become even stronger than I was before.
[cheering]
[Eun-sil] Min-jae. That was great.
Hey, Min-jae. That was amazing.
-I'm so sorry. -Don't you dare. You did great.
[Min-jae] I feel like I've learned a lot of life lessons.
Honestly, I don't know what else to say except thank you.
[Eun-sil] Just a bit more!
[Min-jae] I've definitely learned to never give up.
[yells]
[grunts]
[Min-jae] But I also learned what it means to do my best.
[panting]
[Eun-sil] Let's go!
[Sung-bin] Great job!
I guess I'm trading one sand pit for another.
But my memories from the Physical: Asia arenas
are memories that I'll never forget.
At the end of season two, this joy of victory
was something I experienced just by myself.
But today I get to share that joy
with my incredible teammates here.
And that feels special.
-[upbeat music plays] -We did it!
-[whistle blows] -[cheering]
[yelling]
[Amotti] Today's victory feels extra special.
Having fought long and hard together,
and having won together,
it feels indescribable.
[Dong-hyun] Korea!
[all] Fight on!
[Dong-hyun] As team Korea leaves today,
our torsos remain untouched.
And our flag hangs high.
[dramatic music plays]
[Master] Physical: Asia.
The world is full of different physiques.
In order to find the ultimate athlete,
we will continue to study a variety of different bodies.
Regardless of gender, age, race, and nationality.
Our quest to find the perfect physical form…
will continue.
[dramatic music plays]
[intense music plays]