Olympics in the same place a century ago
Korea has smallest squad in 48 years
Attention to players born in the 2000s
This summer, the Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France again for the first time in 100 years. At the global festival held at the same location a century later, Korean sports also take on the challenge of creating a new history with a new generation at the forefront.
At the 33rd Summer Olympics, which opens in Paris, France, on July 26, Korea will send the smallest number of athletes in 48 years, with 170 to 180 athletes, but the ‘new generation’ born after the 2000s will lead Korean sports at the Olympics. dispatched to
Swimming Hwang Seon-woo and Kim Woo-min
[ 금빛 물살 가른다 ]
Korean swimming will challenge for its first medal since Park Tae-hwan at the Paris Olympics. Hwang Seon-woo (right) and Kim Woo-min are checking their records after finishing the men’s 200m freestyle final at the national team management selection event held in Gimcheon last March. yunhap news
Hwang Sun-woo (21) advanced to the 100m freestyle finals at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first Korean athlete and the first Asian athlete to do so in 65 years, and placed 5th. Hwang Sun-woo, who has shown the potential to become the new hero of Korean swimming, which seemed like he would never appear again after Park Tae-hwan’s exit, will challenge for an Olympic medal in Paris. His main event is the 200m freestyle, in which he won three consecutive world championship medals. He is a candidate for the championship that world swimming is paying attention to.
Kim Woo-min (23), a newcomer to Korean swimming who was only receiving attention from Hwang Sun-woo, is a middle-distance powerhouse. He set a personal best record (3 minutes, 42.71 seconds) in the 400m freestyle at this year’s World Championships and reached the top for the first time. He is also a strong candidate for a medal at the Paris Olympics, where he is competing with the title of world champion. Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min, along with Lee Ho-jun and others, are aiming to enter the 6th squad and win a medal in the men’s 800m relay.
Badminton Ahn Se-young
[ 라이벌을 이긴다 ]
Ahn Se-young is cheering after winning the badminton women’s singles final at last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games. Reporter Jaewon Moon
Ahn Se-young (22) shed tears after being eliminated in the quarterfinals after losing to Chen Yu-fei (China) in Tokyo 2021, her first Olympic Games. She was still young and in her teens, and she could not bear the sorrow of losing again to her opponent, Chen Yufei, whom she had faced in every international competition and had never won.
Ahn Se-young is now proudly ranked No. 1 in the badminton world rankings. Last year, she defeated Chen Yufei, whom she had met several times, one after another, including the All England Open final and the Hangzhou Asian Games final. It is now an ‘enemy’ rather than a ‘natural enemy’. Currently, Chen Yufei is ranked 2nd. Korean badminton is hoping for its first Olympic women’s singles gold medal in 28 years since Atlanta 1996.
archery
[ 왕좌를 사수한다 ]
Im Si-hyeon of the archery team pulls the bowstring in the women’s individual archery recurve quarterfinals at last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games. yunhap news
The sport in which Korea most definitely expects a gold medal at the Paris Olympics is archery. In particular, the women’s team event, which achieved the feat of winning 9 consecutive games at the Tokyo Olympics, carries the burden of having to defend its throne.
The face has completely changed. Through the national team selection match, Tokyo gold medalists An San and Kang Chae-young were all eliminated, and Im Si-hyun (21), Jeon Hoon-young (30), and Nam Su-hyeon (19) were selected. Im Si-hyun, born in 2003, is Ace.
Im Si-hyeon, who swept the women’s individual event, mixed team event, and women’s team event at last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games, becoming the first Korean archer to win three Asian Games titles in 37 years, is a rising star. She passed the national team selection competition, which is said to be more difficult than the Olympics, in first place.
Athletics Woo Sang-hyuk
[ 더 크게 웃는다 ]
Woo Sang-hyuk carries the Korean national flag after winning a silver medal in the men’s high jump finals at last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games. yunhap news
And there is Woo Sang-hyuk (28). Woo Sang-hyuk, who received applause for his always smiling performance at the Tokyo Olympics where he competed as a soldier, is now going to Paris as a world-famous contender for the men’s high jump title.
Woo Sang-hyuk said, “In Rio, participation in the Olympics itself was meaningful, and in Tokyo, I was satisfied with entering the world’s top ranking. He is preparing, saying, “I will definitely win a medal in Paris.” To date, the only Olympic medals won by Korean track and field are the two marathon gold medals won by Hwang Young-jo at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and Lee Bong-ju’s gold medals won by Lee Bong-ju at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Woo Sang-hyuk is likely to win his first track and field medal. Color is the only problem.
2024-04-16 21:03:23
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