4th Olympics X South Korea's flagbearer 'Little Mermaid'Kim Seo-young'Please cheer for the under-the-top athletes!"
Jul 26, 2024
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Kim Seo-young is the oldest and best swimmer to compete in a fourth Olympics in Paris in 2024, following London in 2012, Rio in 2016, and Tokyo in 2021. At the opening ceremony of the fourth Olympics, Woo Sang-hyuk and Woo Sang-hyuk were selected as the flag bearers of the South Korean squad.
Kim Seo-young, who faced reporters immediately after the open training for the La Defense Arena in Paris, said, `It's my fourth Olympics, but I've never been to the opening ceremony in the past three Olympics because my game is ahead. I had a lot of thoughts about 'I want to go so badly' because the games are behind me at this Olympics, but I'm very happy to have the honor of being able to be a jockey, and I'm very excited and waiting for the opening ceremony." Regarding the outdoor opening ceremony of the Seine River, "I haven't heard much about the opening ceremony yet, so I'm looking forward to how it will proceed and I'm excited."
I was honored to be a jockey at the Hangzhou Asian Games, and that moment was really memorable. At the beginning of the fourth Olympics, I received a lot of good energy and I think I can have a good impact on the game," he said with a smile.
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Eight years ago, right after the 2016 Rio Olympics race, Kim Seo-young turned to the broadcast camera and said, `There are many unknown athletes who do their best at every moment. I asked small players like us to support them a lot." The athlete, who called himself a 'small' athlete, and the individual medley ace, who is good at butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, have competed in as many as four Olympics and stood as the flag bearer of the South Korean squad in the fourth Olympics. Kim Seo-young said, `There are many players who are not in the spotlight, but those players are also preparing well step by step from behind, so I hope you will pay a lot of attention and support them. I think I'll be able to see more players who can show better performances," he said in a message of support.
SBS commentator Park Tae-hwan, who met with reporters before Kim Seo-young, expressed his generous support for Kim Seo-young. She is one of the seniors who cares about Kim Seo-young the most. "Kim Seo-young is already the captain and the flag bearer of the team, and I'm really proud of her," Park said. "I used to be a really young player, but now I think I've endured it well because I've become that high-level player. This is probably the last Olympics, but I hope it will be a success. You probably know the 200m individual medley best, but since it's the most ambitious event, I hope you can go to the final and make the record you want" cheered. `Kim Seo-young is a female player with her age and a lot of experience and history, but now she has a little disappointing performance in terms of records while playing at the World Championships and Asian Games, but I have a personal wish that she would finish it well at the Paris Olympics,' he said.
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When asked about the most important point of the opening ceremony rider as an experienced rider at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Kim Seo-young immediately replied "The location of the Taegeuk flag and the angle at which the face can be seen well." Regarding the jockey's chemistry with Woo Sang-hyuk in the high jump, he laughed, saying, `Shouldn't we go and match a little later?'
Meanwhile, the South Korean team will enter the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics for the 48th time among 206 countries. It is expected to be around 2:30 a.m. on the 27th in Korea. For the first time ever, the Olympics will be held in the Seine River, not in the stadium. The team enters by riding a boat along the Seine River and marching on the water. The team's water and ship march will be held in a 6km section from the Osterlitz Bridge near the Botanic Gardens to Trocadero Square near the Eiffel Tower. As it is the day before the competition, only about 50 Korean players will participate.
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