North and South Korean Desk Tennis Groups Face Off at Paris Stadium: Coaching Aspect by Aspect

Supply time2024-07-23 03:45

(Paris = Yonhap Information) Reporter Lim Hwa-young and Lee Eui-jin = A scenario was created the place the South Korean and North Korean desk tennis groups competing for medals on the Paris Olympics took sweat neatly in a single place.

The Korean desk tennis staff started coaching on the desk tennis stadium arrange at South Paris Area 4 in Paris, France, beginning round 3pm on the twenty second (native time).

Whereas gamers comparable to Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) and Lim Jong-hoon (Korea Change) have been warming up and exchanging rallies, North Korea’s Pyeon Tune-kyung, Kim Geum-young, and Ri Jeong-sik began immediately coming into the stadium. .

North Korea appeared on the stadium about 40 minutes later than Korea and instantly began coaching utilizing the desk tennis desk proper subsequent to them.

Since there have been no athletes from different international locations on website, an odd scene was created the place solely athletes from South and North Korea have been utilizing the coaching space.

There was no specific rigidity between the 2 nationwide groups as each Korean and North Korean gamers centered on their very own coaching quite than being conscious of one another.

Kim Geum-young smiled brightly as if she was glad with the coaching surroundings and present scenario.

Nevertheless, the North Korean gamers sometimes regarded on the Korean gamers sweating close to them through the coaching.

Based on MyInfo, the official info website of the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee, North Korea registered 16 athletes in 7 sports activities.

Wrestling, a robust sport, has a most of 5 gamers. Desk tennis is for 3 folks. As well as, there are 3 folks in swimming and diving, 2 folks in boxing, and 1 particular person in athletics, monitor and area, and judo.

The North Korean desk tennis staff, which entered France by way of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport the day earlier than, educated domestically for the primary time at the moment.

It has been eight years since North Korea appeared on the Olympic stage in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

North Korea was suspended from the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) for not sending athletes to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021 after the outbreak of the brand new coronavirus (Corona 19).

After that, the disciplinary motion was lifted and the standing of ‘Nationwide Olympic Committee’ (NOC) was regained, and thru the Hangzhou Asian Video games final yr, it returned to the worldwide sports activities stage 5 years after the Jakarta Asian Video games- Palembang 2018.

At the moment, North Korea, who participated within the ladies’s doubles with the pair of Cha Soo-young and Park Soo-kyung, superior to the ultimate and met Shin Yu-bin of South Korea and Jeon Ji-hee (Mirae Asset Securities).

Within the ‘North-South-South Desk Tennis Remaining’ of the Asian Video games held 33 years after the 1990 Beijing Video games, Korea smiled when Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee gained gold medals.

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