Chairman Lee Ki-heung"The result of 13 teams Korea united in a sense of crisis"
Aug 11, 2024
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As of the 11th, ahead of the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, Team Korea is seventh overall with 13 gold medals, 8 silver medals, 9 bronze medals, and a total of 30 medals. On the last day, the women's individual event of the modern pentathlon (Seo Seung-min) and the women's 81kg weightlifting class (Park Hye-jeong) are also expected to win medals. If the medal is added, it will be the best performance in 12 years since the 2012 London Games (gold 13, silver 9, bronze 9).
This is the result of a major reversal written by the previous ultra-mini squad consisting of 144 players since the 1976 Montreal Olympics. By simple calculation, one in 11 national team members won the Olympic gold medal. '39 Gold Medals' There are 388 Chinese squads and '38 Gold Medals' U.S. squads of 592. '18 Gold Medals' Australia had 460 '18 Gold Medals' Japan had 432, '16 Gold Medals' host France had 573, and '14 Gold Medals' Great Britain had 327 squads. Less than one-third of them, Team Korea's mini-squad, won the battle between 'David and Goliath'.
The performance of 'bow, knife, gun, and foot' was remarkable. He swept five gold medals in reliable archery. 'Gold 5 is 1 dong 1' is the best record ever. Fencing men's sabre 'New Avengers' brought two gold medals, using the first gold medal in individual competition and the third consecutive team competition. The women's sabre also won a surprise silver medal in the team event. The strength of archery and fencing was what was expected. Ahn Se-young's gold medal in 'Badminton Empress' is also expected to have potential if the injury management is done well. However, the shooting book 'Gold 3, Silver 3', which the Korean Sports Association picked as an 'incidental event', is definitely a better-than-expected achievement. Taekwondo also achieved the highest performance with gold medals from Park Tae-joon and Kim Yoo-jin and bronze medals from Lee Da-bin. Medals of fighting spirit poured in in various events such as judo (Hear Mi-mi, Kim Min-jong, Lee Joon-hwan, Kim Ha-yoon, mixed team Dong), boxing (Im Ae-ji Dong), swimming (Kim Woo-min Dong), and table tennis (Shin Yoo-bin-Im Jong-hoon mixed uniform, women's team Dong).
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Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korea Sports Council, said, `The biggest reason is that the team has a sense of crisis. We set the gold medal estimate at five, which is what we expected from the data that went through five stages. "There were reports that the size of the team was small, school sports were extinguished, and elite sports were in crisis, and the potential of young players exploded while players and leaders were united with a sense of crisis in a difficult situation." The evaluation of the Marine Corps camp, which has been hotly controversial in the world, is very high in the Korean Sports Council and Jincheon Training Center. Chairman Lee said, `At the end of last year, the Marine Corps One Team Korea camp did not go for club gymnastics, but went to strengthen its mentality and strengthen the spirit of the original team ahead of the Olympics. Through the camp, he became close to athletes of his age in other sports and became a `one team.' We communicated well with each other. The reason why the most gold medals came out was because the players worked hard and the federation and leaders did their best to support them amid the crisis consciousness.
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