Harbin Asian Games Open Tonight...Looking at the past Korean performance
Harbin Asian Games Open Tonight...Looking at the past Korean performance
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The Winter Asian Games, the biggest festival of 4.7 billion Asians returning for the first time in eight years, will be held in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, China.
The 34-nation squad will kick off today (7th) at the Harbin International Convention Exhibition and Sports Center at 9 p.m. Korean time.
Under the slogan of "Dream of Winter, Love of Asia," the competition will start with the opening ceremony today (7th) and run for eight days until the 14th.
Harbin, China's first host of the Winter Asian Games, is once again creating the venue for the winter's biggest sports festival in 29 years.
China is hosting three mega sporting events in a row in the last three years, following the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the 2022 Hangzhou Summer Asian Games in 2023.
Therefore, I put my heart and soul into making this competition a grand stage as well.
The organizing committee of the competition planned to give off the charm of Harbin, an "ice city" with colorful lighting and technology.
The organizing committee reportedly prepared a large-scale event, decorating the entire opening ceremony with 1.2 million small snowflake installations.
South Korea will send a total of 222 athletes to the tournament. 메이저사이트
Lee Chong-min of ice hockey (Bloomington Bisons) and Kim Eun-ji of curling (Gyeonggi Provincial Government) were selected as the opening ceremony riders.
South Korea is eyeing six gold medals in short track, two in speed skating and one each in alpine skiing, freestyle skiing and curling, with its sights set on second overall behind host China.
If you look at Korea's performance in the Asian Games, it ranked third in the first Asian Games, and has never been out of fourth place so far.
At the 2017 Asian Games in Sapporo, he won the most gold medals, 16 medals, ranking second overall.
The first gold medal is expected tomorrow (8th).
He is aiming for gold in the curling mix double (mixed duo) and short track 2,000m relay, men's and women's 500m and 1,500m speedskating men's 100m and men's 1,500m.
Meanwhile, the eighth Asian Winter Games were originally scheduled to be held in 2021, but they were not held for a long time due to difficulties in selecting the venue and the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).
Harbin, which hosted its third tournament in 1996, was the sole candidate and selected as the venue in July 2023.