""I'll bet a medal in front of the Eiffel Tower" South Korea's team enters Paris as a showdown site 'Aim to win more than five medals!'
Jul 21, 2024
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On the 21st (Korea time), 48 members, including 18 executives from the headquarters of the Korea Sports Association, 20 fencing, and 10 table tennis teams, arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. Led by Koo Bon-gil (National Sports Promotion Agency), the oldest member of the fencing men's sabre team, who was selected as the main flag bearer, left Incheon International Airport on the morning of the 20th and entered Paris after more than 14 hours of flight. A total of 260 South Korean athletes (143 athletes, 90 athletes, 27 headquarters executives) from 21 sports will participate in the Paris Olympics.
Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korean Olympic Committee, who came to Paris, said, `I feel nervous when I arrive in Paris. Our players, leaders, and staff have prepared thoroughly, but we have a great sense of responsibility because we have to realize it well and bring good results to the people. We will do our best to achieve better results than we initially aimed." 'Ace of Table Tennis' Shin Yu-bin will be able to win a medal in front of the Eiffel Tower"I am determined.
The team entered Paris on the 21st, but many of the team, including badminton and shooting, which came in on the 12th, have already arrived in Paris early and are continuing their tempering. The Korean Olympic Committee has been operating the Team Korea Paris Platform, a pre-season camp for the Summer Olympics for the first time in 12 years since the 2012 London Games. More than 130 people, including badminton and swimming management teams, are already living on the Team Korea Paris platform set up at the French National Defense Sports Center (CNSD) in Fontainebleau, near Paris, and the fencing team who arrived on the same day will also join.
The national table tennis team will enter the athletes' village and adjust to the local area. After that, the artistic swimming (22nd), alarm (24th), and diving, taekwondo, and horseback riding (25th) teams will head to Paris in turn.
The Taegeuk Warriors will begin their game schedule on the 25th before the opening ceremony. The archery team will play in the ranking round on this day, and the women's handball team, the only team participating in the Olympics, will play its first match against Germany. In the aftermath of the sluggish team ball game, Korea, which has the smallest number of athletes in 48 years since the 1976 Montreal Games, aims to win more than five gold medals and top 15 in the overall ranking.
The Paris Olympics will start with an opening ceremony on the Seine River in Paris on the 26th and run until August 11.
vanbasten@sportschosun.com
