Swimming Federation"黃 Kim Generation Sauna Bus Special Measures..."I booked a hotel with me at the athlete's village"
Jul 26, 2024
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It came shortly after Hwang Sun-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office) of the national swimming team met with reporters after training on the 25th and expressed his difficulties with the shuttle bus in the athletes' village. "Some shuttle buses from the athletes' village to the stadium have air conditioning on and some have no air conditioning on. It's like a sauna because so many players ride on the bus. They can't even open their windows because of the threat of terrorism. It takes about 40 to 45 minutes from the athletes' village to the swimming pool. It took an hour and a half today because of the bus dispatch time. I'm going to invest three hours round trip on the road. "It's too hard to go back and forth due to the lack of transportation system. Athletes in other sports are similar. I think we need to find a solution" he appealed. Kim Woo-min also expressed his grievances, saying "The bus is too hot.'
Hope for Korea's Sports, the Golden Generation of Swimming is challenging to win the first Olympic medal in 12 years. Chung Chang-hoon, president of the Korea Swimming Federation, told reporters at La Defense Arena in Paris on the 26th that he first booked a five-minute-walk hotel near La Defense for the swimming team's conditioning in Paris, including Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min. "After training today, I'm going to leave the athletes' village and enter a hotel near the stadium. Before Kim Woo-min's first 400m race, he urgently got a hotel."
For the six members of the relay, including Hwang Sun-woo, Kim Woo-min, Lee Ho-joon, Kim Young-hyun, Yang Jae-hoon, and Lee Yoo-yeon, three double rooms were reserved for now. "It's five minutes away from La Defense. You can walk up, or you'll be assigned a private car. It takes about 50 minutes when the traffic from the athletes' village is too heavy for 15 to 20 minutes, and the windows are not opened, and all the air conditioners are blocked. The players are struggling with conditioning because the round trip is two or three hours longIt's a hot and difficult situation. I reported it to the Korean Sports Council, and Chairman Lee Ki-heung also told me to deal with it quickly. We dealt with it at the federation level for the players." "I heard that some of the foreign swimmers also booked outside accommodation. "I don't know if the players' village is good, but I have to control the condition of the players as much as possible in the league and it's the most important first game, and I urgently booked three rooms at an outside hotel considering it to be the worst environment ever."
"A few days ago, a bus accidentally entered a narrow alley and damaged a car. He goes into strange places and bounces around."
Meanwhile, Kim Woo-min will challenge for her first medal in the men's 400m freestyle on the 27th. Hwang will join Kim Woo-min in the 200-meter freestyle preliminary race, his main event, on the 28th to cut the first current of the Paris Olympics.
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