Jang Hye-jin of archery, Sang-wook Oh of fencing Saber, and Jong-oh Jin of shooting (from left), which are the filial events of the Korean Summer Olympics. With the strong will of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government, the Tokyo Olympics are likely to be held in July this year.Even amid the risk of Corona 19, there is a growing possibility that the Tokyo Olympics will be held as scheduled. While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government are showing strong will, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee is also working on a specific plan for hosting the Olympics. The Korean athletic community, which has to send more than 300 athletes in four months, is also busy.
On the 4th, Seiko Hashimoto, chairman of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, will meet with five members, including Thomas Bach, IOC Chairman, Andrew Parsons, International Paralympic Committee Chairman, and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike. According to the Associated Press, the topic they will discuss at the meeting is’How to accommodate overseas audiences for the Olympics’. Whether or not to hold the Tokyo Olympics will be decided through the IOC general meeting on the 10th, but first, the talks will be held on the premise of holding.
Since Chairman Hashimoto took office, the Japanese government and the organizing committee are more aggressively preparing to host the Olympics this year. Last month, for the referees who will participate in the Olympics, a quarantine rule’Playbook’ that contains the quarantine rules to be followed before leaving Japan, after entering Japan, during the competition period, and after leaving the country, was released. Plan. Chairman Hashimoto recently decided to increase the percentage of female directors in the organizing committee to 19 (45%), 12 more than before, considering the resignation of former Chairman Yoshiro Mori due to `gender discrimination`. If the Olympics do not open, the organizing committee is also disbanded, so even the members of the board of directors are changing and expressing their strong will.
Seven major countries (G7) also supported the holding of the Tokyo Olympics within the year last month, so the Tokyo Olympics in July will be held by force. The domestic athletic community, which was shrunken by uncertainty and concerns about the spread of Corona 19, is also in a situation where it is inevitable to focus on the selection of representative players and the safety of players with a weight on the’hosting’.
The top priority of the Korean Sports Association is to secure vaccines. After successful re-election early this year, Chairman Lee Ki-heung said, “I think the Olympics will be held within this year. It is important to create an environment in which the safety of the athletes participating is guaranteed.” It is known that the Korean Sports Association is currently in discussions with the government and quarantine authorities on vaccination for Olympic athletes and leaders. The first vaccination period is expected to be in May, and the number of vaccination targets can be widened as there are many sports that have not yet selected a representative athlete. Currently, the Korea Sports Association is targeting about 1,000 people. It is expected that there will be more than 300 Korean athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympics.
As the likelihood that the Olympics will be held as scheduled has increased, the representative Hyoja events that have raised the status of the Republic of Korea must quickly select athletes and begin systematic training. Archery, who was responsible for more than half of Korea’s gold medals at the Summer Olympics, has now been selected to be 40 after two selections. From the 22nd, only 6 people (three men and women) will survive after the third selection and the final self-evaluation match next month.
The shooting of Jin Jong-oh (42, Seoul City Hall) to challenge the last Olympics has been delayed until next month. As we have decided to match whether the Olympics will be held or not, for now, we need to schedule the selection in the near future. Jin Jong-oh’s main event, the 50m pistol event, has disappeared from this event, but he will challenge the medal with Lee Dae-myeong (33, Gyeonggi Provincial Office) and a 10m air pistol. Fencing, which has emerged as a filial sport since the 2012 London Olympics, is already sweating in Jincheon Athlete’s Village. The world’s No. 1 ranking, Oh Sang-wook (25, Seongnam City Hall) and medalist Koo Bon-gil (32, National Sports Promotion Corporation) harmonized the new and old sabres, which are highly likely to be medals.
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