Badminton and Shooting etc will Leave for Paris Olympics

Badminton An Se-young, Shooting Team, etc. to Leave for Paris Olympics

The badminton team, including the world’s No. 1 women’s singles player Ahn Se-young (22, Samsung Life Insurance), the shooting team, including the women’s rifle 3 positions player Lee Eun-seo (30, Seosan City Hall), and the national boxing team Im Ae-ji (25, Hwasun County Office) and Oh Yeon-ji (33, Ulsan City Sports Council) boarded the plane to Paris as the ‘advance squad’.

The advance squad for the Korean team for the 2024 Paris Olympics departed from Incheon International Airport on the 12th.

A total of 43 people, including 19 badminton players (12 players, 7 officials), 5 boxers (2 players, 3 officials), and 19 shooters (16 players, 10 officials), left for Paris, the fiercely contested city.

The Korea Sports Council explained, “Athletes in the events that will have their first matches on July 27 (local time) have left first.” 토토사이트

Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korea Sports Council, bid farewell to the first Korean team to leave for the Paris Olympics at the Jincheon National Athletes’ Village in North Chungcheong Province, saying, “I hope that our athletes will show their best performance there and make our people proud.

I also look forward to passionate performances.

Above all, I hope that you will return from the competition without any injuries,” he said with encouragement.

In this competition, the national badminton team is expecting gold medals from Ahn Se-young in women’s singles, Baek Ha-na (MG Saemaul Geumgo) – Lee So-hee (Incheon International Airport) in women’s doubles, and Kim So-young (Incheon International Airport) – Kong Hee-yong (Jeonbuk Bank).

The shooting team has set its goal for the Paris Olympics to win one gold, two silver, and three bronze medals.

The medal candidates are Yang Ji-in (Korea National Sport University) and Kim Ye-ji (Imsil County Office) in the women’s 25m pistol, Song Jong-ho (IBK Industrial Bank) in the men’s rapid-fire pistol, Lee Eun-seo (Seosan City Hall) in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions, and Ban Hyo-jin (Daegu Physical Education High School) in the women’s 10m air rifle.

On the 13th, the yachting team will depart, and on the 16th, the swimming, archery, and cycling teams will depart.

The main team of the Korean national team, including fencing and table tennis, will leave for Paris on the 20th.

The total size of the Korean national team for the Paris Olympics is 262 people (144 athletes and 118 officials) in 22 sports.