Preview of stars that will shine in the Olympics
Ahn Se-young wins 11 gold medals at international competitions
Shin Yu-bin breaks down the strongest middle class and rises
NBA stars including US basketball player LeBron appear
Buddha Mbappe’s willingness to participate in his country’s competition
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▲ Badminton Ahn Se-young.
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As the year of the 2024 Olympics dawns, attention is already focused on the sports stars who will shine at the Paris Olympics, which returns for the third time in 100 years.
It is expected that Korea’s ‘young blood’ will set Paris on fire. These are the stars who foreshadowed the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, which were postponed by a year due to COVID-19. Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance), the world’s No. 1 badminton women’s singles player, will challenge for the Olympic women’s singles gold medal for the first time in 28 years since Bang Bang-hyeon at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Ahn Se-young, who has won 11 gold medals on the international stage this year, including her two gold medals at the Hangzhou Asian Games, plans to complete her era with her Olympic gold medal.
▲ Table tennis Shin Yu-bin (second from right)
Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air), who teamed up with Jeon Ji-hee (Mirae Asset Securities) in the women’s table tennis doubles at the Hangzhou Asian Games to destroy the stronghold of China, the world’s strongest team, is also expected to continue her momentum in Paris. Hwang Seon-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office), the center of the Korean swimming renaissance, is challenging for an Olympic medal for the first time in 12 years since Park Tae-hwan. Woo Sang-hyuk (Yongin City Hall), who is writing a new history in Korean track and field by winning a gold medal at the World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the World Championships, is leaping toward his first ever Olympic medal.
▲ Swimming Hwang Seon-woo
▲ Athletics Woo Sang-hyuk
Noah Lyles (USA) is attempting to win three Olympic men’s track and field sprint medals eight years after Usain Bolt (Jamaica). Lyles swept the 100m, 200m, and 400m relay races at the world championships in August last year, becoming the first person to win three gold medals since Bolt in 2015. The record-breaking march of Armand Duplantis (Sweden), who was crowned the men’s pole vault emperor in Tokyo, is also expected to be exciting. He breaks records every time he participates in a competition, dominating the world records for 1st to 4th place outdoors and 1st to 5th place indoors.
There is interest in whether Kelvin Kiftum (Kenya), who won the Chicago Marathon in October of this year with a world record of 2 hours, 00 minutes and 35 seconds, can achieve a ‘sub 2’ (complete the full course in under 2 hours) with Paris as the backdrop.
The spectacular return of ‘gymnastics queen’ Simone Biles (USA) is also expected. She was expected to sweep all six gold medals in Tokyo, but collapsed due to mental stress and only won one silver and one bronze medal. She later left the gymnastics stage, but made a perfect comeback by sweeping four events at the World Championships last October and leading the United States to its seventh consecutive team title. announced.
In men’s basketball, attention is being paid to whether a super team will be on par with the 1992 ‘Dream Team’ of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson and the 2012 ‘Redeem Team’ of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. The United States, which has had poor performance in the recent Basketball World Cup, is seeking to form the strongest team centered around James, who is burning his twilight with the LA Lakers. Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors), Kevin Durant (Phoenix Suns), and Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics) have expressed their intention to participate. In men’s soccer, Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain) is igniting his will to participate in his first Olympics as a wild card.
Reporter Hong Ji-min
2023-12-31 17:14:53
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