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[National Sports Festival] High jump legend Lee Jin-taek "Woo Sang-hyuk's smile contains 10 years' worth of tears"

“The mentality has been strengthened after countless failures and efforts… I’m really proud of it”

“In the Olympics, there are many variables that come with skill.

Woo Sang-hyuk, who has a good mentality, is worth a try.”

Korean track and field high jump legend Lee Jin-taek (51), chairman of the performance improvement committee of the Korea Association of Athletics Federations, believed that Woo Sang-hyuk (27, Yongin City Hall) could achieve his dream of winning an Olympic medal that he could not achieve. 카지노사이트

Chairman Lee Jin-taek at the 104th Jeonnam National Sports Festival held at Mokpo Stadium in Jeollanam-do on the 17th and said, "As everyone knows, Woo Sang-hyuk is a world-class athlete."

He added, "Woo Sang-hyuk showed the potential to win a medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

Next year (at the Paris Olympics), I will take on the biggest challenge of my life.

He encouraged us by saying, “We will be able to achieve good results as we have put in a lot of effort.”

Chairman Lee, who experienced the Olympics twice, said, "The Olympics are different from other international competitions such as the World Championships.

As it is a competition that comes around once every four years, there are many variables such as mental ability, flow, energy, and luck, as well as the skills you have."

“It comes out,” he explained.

He added, “Isn’t Woo Sang-hyuk a player who enjoys the game?” and added, “As he has a good mentality, I expect him to play the game without regrets.”

In addition, he explained, “(The world’s best player) Mutaz Essa Barsim (32, Qatar) is a player who has reached his prime and is coming down,” and added, “I think he will be worth a try to some extent during the Paris Olympics.”

Chairman Lee Jin-taek was a pioneer in Korean track and field who dominated the world track and field high jump in the 1990s.

Chairman Lee appeared like a comet in the barren field of domestic athletics and broke various records.

He participated in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and advanced to the finals in the Atlanta event, finishing in 8th place.

For the next 25 years, not a single Korean athlete advanced to the Olympic high jump finals, but Woo Sang-hyuk surpassed Chairman Lee by taking fourth place at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Woo Sang-hyuk surpassed 2m 35 at the time and broke Chairman Lee Jin-taek's Korean record (2m 34) for the first time in 24 years.

Chairman Lee Jin-taek was proud of his junior Woo Sang-hyuk, who surpassed all of his records.

Chairman Lee recalled, “In the past, no one played the game with a smile on his face,” and then added, “I am proud of Sanghyuk, who enjoys the game itself and jumps to his heart’s content.”

However, he added, “Sanghyuk’s smile contains the tears he shed while experiencing countless challenges and frustrations over the past 10 years,” and added, “I am grateful to Sanghyuk for overcoming tremendous pain and leading Korean athletics.”

Woo Sang-hyuk, who won the silver medal for the second time in a row at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, behind Barsim, will participate in the National Sports Festival on the 18th to ‘warm up’.

He is expected to easily win the championship due to the large skill gap between him and the other players.

Chairman Lee Jin-taek advised, “Because the Olympics are less than a year away, we need to be most careful about injuries,” and added, “Now is the time to focus on taking care of our bodies.”

by casinositewiki on 2023-12-04 08:47:14