a reasonable resurgence of fire that had lost its grip three years ago
Guns (shooting), knives (fencing) and bows (bowl) are a must-have item for the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In less than half of the Olympic Games, nine gold medals were poured out in three sports, exceeding the Korean team’s goal of five gold medals and 15th overall ranking before the opening of the event.
The rebound in shooting, which had lost its momentum, was a major factor. Shooting only won one silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago. Jin Jong-oh, who led the golden age of shooting in Korea, failed to fill the retirement gap of four gold medals and two silver medals.
As Hanwha, which had supported shooting for a long time, withdrew from the race last year, few predicted that the Paris Olympics would also be sluggish, but the shooting team won three gold medals and two silver medals, tying the record with the 2012 London Olympics. As there is still a chance that the Korean team will add more medals to the remaining games, some in the shooting community say that the Renaissance has come.
Shooting experts find the secret of the change in three years from improving one’s physical constitution. The Korea Shooting Federation appointed Lee Eun-cheol, the gold medalist at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, as the head of the performance improvement committee. Currently, Lee has elevated his competitiveness by selecting players who are strong in the final round to the national team. Since the 2016 Rio Olympics, shooting has changed to a method of lowering the score points in the final round, but the team still selected players in the order of highest score and showed its limits at the Tokyo Olympics.
The difference was revealed by the number of medals. In both the Tokyo Olympics and Paris Olympics, six events made the final, but the results have changed significantly with one silver medal for the Tokyo Olympics and three gold and two silver medals for the Paris Olympics. Kim Tae-ho, vice chairman of the Korea Shooting Federation, met at the women’s 25-meter pistol finals on the 2nd, and said, “It is a sudden death in the finals to determine the gold medal. It is our athletes’ talent,” and was confident of Yang Ji-in’s (21, Korea National Sports University) performance, but a day later, the third gold medal of shooting came out in the finals on the 3rd.
Efforts were made to reduce trials and errors at the Tokyo Olympics. At that time, Korean athletes had to participate in the Olympics without experience in international competitions due to COVID-19. The Korean Shooting Federation completed selection for the national team in early April and allowed them to participate in the Olympics with experience of participating in at least three international competitions. It was also propaganda that they signed a local shooting range two weeks before the opening of the Olympics and started adaptation training.
An official from the Korea Shooting Federation said, “Actually, it will be the same in all sports, but I am proud that we have achieved good results in this competition because we selected players who can do well and helped them do well.”
BY: 토토사이트 추천