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'Shooting Emperor' Rep. Jin Jong-oh (National Assembly Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee) visited Jincheon National Training Center on the 21st and had a close communication with senior and junior leaders and athletes.
Rep. Jin is a legend who won three consecutive gold medals in five Olympic shooting events until Rio 2016, four gold medals and two silver medals, including two gold medals at the 2012 London Olympics. He entered the 22nd National Assembly as a proportional representative of the people's power in May last year and is active in the Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee. Rep. Jin called Jincheon Training Center, where he devoted his youth to participating in five Olympics, the `home of athletes' and gave special meaning to the visit to the athletes' village as one of the athletes, not just a schedule, but a meaningful place for communication with athletes and leaders.
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Representative Jin first held a meeting with Jang Jae-geun, head of Jincheon Training Center, who is expected to retire at the end of this month, and actively listened to on-site opinions through reports on the operation of Jincheon Training Center and pending issues. At the meeting with the heads of the athletes' village operation department, the need to improve the national training facilities, including the Taebaek athletes' village, was intensively discussed. Despite the fact that the Taebaek Training Center is an optimized place for high-altitude adaptation and circulation training, the problem has been raised that its utilization is limited due to the lack of indoor training grounds. It was also pointed out that 26 years have passed since its completion in 1998, and the training environment is poor due to the lack of training facilities and capacity.
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Subsequently, a meeting of leaders of major events such as shooting, boxing, weightlifting, and short track was held. Leaders of each event expressed their opinions on a variety of issues, including ▶ the fact that if there are many sports or sub-sports events, they must hire leaders under the name of trainers due to the lack of applicants for the national team ▶ It is difficult to foster prospects due to the competition's performance only. ▶ The coach's mandatory qualification as a first-class professional sports leader when recruiting national team leaders, and the need to review the current first-class professional sports instructor qualification training and selection process. While expressing sympathy with the leaders' opinions, Rep. Jin said, `Behind the national team players are leaders who are silently committed. I will consider the difficulties that the leaders are experiencing as if it were my job and work together to solve them" expressed his will.
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Rep. Jin had a candid conversation over lunch with his junior teammates of the national team at the athlete's restaurant. Medallists from the Paris Summer Olympics and Harbin Winter Asian Games, including boxing Lim Ae-ji, judo Kim Ha-yoon, modern pentathlon Sung Seung-min, shooting Ban Hyo-jin, short track Kim Ki-li and Jang Sung-woo, shared their honest stories. There were various opinions on training facilities, equipment support, and improvement of living conditions, and lawmaker Jin promised to actively review matters that could be reflected immediately.
On this day, the Jincheon Training Center also reported on pending projects related to the 2027 Summer World University Games (Hagye U Games). Rep. Jin listened to pending issues and discussed ways to support the renovation of public sports facilities through meetings with officials from the organizing committee of the Summer U Games and the department in charge of Chungbuk Province. In particular, they agreed that budget support is needed for smooth progress in relation to the renovation of Chungju Sports Complex. `As a member of the National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee, we will spare no support to prepare the competition without any problems,' Jin promised.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
