"Taegeukgi in the Paris sky!" Koo Bon-gil X Shin Yu-bin 'One Team Korea' squad leaves today

Jul 20, 2024

2024 Paris Olympics Departure from the Republic of Korea

On the 20th, the main team of the South Korean team participating in the Paris Olympics left for Paris, France, the final destination.

The squad will depart from Incheon International Airport on Korean Air flight KE901 at 11:10 a.m. on the 20th and arrive in Paris after a 14-hour and 20-minute flight.

Gu Bon-gil and Jo Jong-hyung, vice chairman of the Korea Fencing Association, and national fencing players

National table tennis players, including Im Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee, who shout "fighting"

The main team left the country on this day and consisted of 18 headquarters executives, including Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korean Sports Council, 20 fencing national teams, including the men's sabre national team, which is trying to win three consecutive Olympic team titles, and 48 men's and women's national table tennis teams, including Jang Woo-jin, Cho Dae-sung, Lim Jong-hoon, Shin Yoo-bin, Jeon Ji-hee and Lee Eun-hye. After arriving in Paris, the national table tennis team, led by headquarters executives, Joo Se-hyuk, and Oh Kwang-heon, will enter the Paris Olympic Village, while the fencing team will enter the Fontainebleau pre-training camp and food support center 'Team Korea Paris Platform', which was established 12 years after the London Olympics. Following the main team, artistic swimming on the 22nd, warning on the 24th, diving, taekwondo, and horseback riding will leave the country in order to challenge for the Paris Olympics. A total of 260 South Korean athletes participating in this competition are participating in 21 sports (143 athletes, 90 game executives, and 27 headquarters executives).

Chairman Lee Ki-heung interviewing before departure from Paris

Gu Bon-gil interviewing before leaving Paris

Fencing team shouting for the Paris Olympics

Starting with the opening ceremony at the Seine River in Paris on the 26th, 10,500 people from 206 countries around the world will compete for medals in 329 events in 32 sports until August 11. South Korea, which has dispatched the smallest-ever squad since the 1976 Montreal Games, aims to win five to six gold medals in archery and fencing and rank 15th overall.

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