"Daddy, I've already won two Olympic medals!" '女 Penners'Yoon Ji-soo → A message to 父 coach Yoon Hak-gil
Aug 04, 2024
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Yoon Ji-soo (31, Seoul City Hall), the oldest member of the women's sabre team, delivered an Olympic silver message to his father Yoon Hak-gil, a former professional baseball Lotte Giants legend pitcher.
Yoon Ji-soo, who won the bronze medal in the team event at the Tokyo Olympics with outstanding seniors such as Kim Ji-yeon and Soo Yeon Choi, took a step up in Paris with outstanding juniors such as Ha Young-young, Choi Se-bin, and Jeon Eun-hye. The women's sabre team advanced to the Olympic finals for the first time in history and won a silver medal. In the semifinals, he beat France, the world's No. 1 seed country, at home, and led by 8 bouts against Ukraine in the final, before narrowly missing the gold medal by 42-45, allowing Ha-ran to turn the tables. Although he missed the gold medal, it was the hope of Korean fencing that young fencers born in the 2000s tried without hesitation in the Olympic final piste.
After Kim Ji-yeon's retirement from the national university, Yoon Ji-soo held out until the end, leading the growth of his juniors and writing another history.
Yoon Ji-soo said, `It was so nice to be the first Korean female sabre to win a silver medal, and it was such an honor for me to go back all generations and win a silver medal with my juniors" expressed his feelings. Yoon Ji-soo set an example of a team player who dedicates and sacrifices for the team. In the semifinal match against France, he volunteered to replace himself, and Jeon Eun-hye received the opportunity. In response to this scene, Yoon Ji-soo said, `The French players and I have been competing for a long time, so we knew each other so well and thought our junior players had passion and spirit and it would be difficult for the French to grasp"I explained the reason. "The operation worked that we could get more than enough if we only kept the initial score and kept it alive" he said.
When asked what she felt while watching the final stage against Ukraine under the piste, Yoon Ji-soo said, `The kids were so good, so honestly, they were so cool. Also, as a senior, I was so proud to see my juniors doing well, and I was honored to be in the same place." Regarding the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics as the youngest and the silver medal at the Paris Olympics as the oldest, "I feel really good just to change the color of the medal. I want to help them win the gold medal next time as a senior." Yoon Ji-soo said, "I'm thinking about this Olympics as my last"I drew the line.
Wouldn't it have been a shame that he couldn't run on the final stage. Yoon Ji-soo left an impressive line of seniority that would penetrate the atmosphere of the women's sabre team. "It was not at all unfortunate. I thought my juniors would be able to do so well. They have to go to the next Olympics. I thought I shouldn't be greedy for the position." Two gold medals, two silver medals, and the feat of Korean fencing at the Grand Palais in Paris are thanks to the precious minds of seniors such as Yoon Ji-soo, who willingly volunteers to become wheat grains for his juniors.
Paris = Reporter Jeon Young-ji sky4us@sportschosun.com
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