While attention is focused on the Summer Olympics to be held in Paris this year, the situation in South Korea is not bright.
Because it is the smallest number of participants since the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Currently, South Korea is expected to send 150 athletes, the lowest number since the 1976 Montreal Olympics, when 50 athletes participated. South Korea, which did not participate in the Moscow Olympics, sent 210 athletes to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
And the Seoul Olympics had the largest number of athletes ever, 477. Since then, Korea has consistently sent 200 to 300 athletes. But this Olympics has only about 150 athletes.
What is the reason for this? The reason is that team ball games were poorly performed. Korea was not able to participate in any team ball games except women’s handball, regardless of gender, at this Olympics. It seems that this poor performance in ball games had a big impact on the number of players participating.
But what is worrying is the number of gold medals for South Korea. South Korea, which has the lowest number of athletes since the Montreal Olympics, may now have the lowest number of gold medals since 48 years ago. If the number of gold medals is 5 or less, it will be the lowest number of gold medals since the Montreal Olympics. Currently, the expected number of gold medals for South Korea is 5 or 6. However, some predict more than 10, as South Korea can win gold medals in archery and fencing, which are its strengths, and also win gold medals in taekwondo, judo, badminton, and shooting, where they have been weak in the last competition.
Source: Discovering Life in Saengbali
2024-07-04 00:08:27
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