“These days, athletes don’t even do early morning workouts.”
Lee Ki-heung, president of the Korean Sports Federation, said this during the final report of the Korean team for the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games on Monday. I thought he was saying that it wasn’t like that ‘in my time’, but you have to listen to us.
“It’s our reality. We can’t force ourselves to do it, and there’s talk of athlete rights. The social environment has changed so much. You can’t do it the old way, the trends are changing.”
“There’s also a trend towards mental sports (like esports). We need to do the research on these things correctly. We need to know how we’re going to solve these problems. So far, we’ve been doing it like a frog in a well, getting up early in the morning and exercising. Now we’re going to do it after we get back, driven by data, driven by a scientific approach. We’ll talk about it together.”
“These days, athletes don’t even do early morning workouts.”
Lee Ki-heung, president of the Korean Sports Federation, said this during the final report of the Korean team for the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games on Monday. I thought he was saying that it wasn’t like that ‘in my time’, but you have to listen to us.
“It’s our reality. We can’t force ourselves to do it, and there’s talk of athlete rights. The social environment has changed so much. You can’t do it the old way, the trends are changing.”
“There’s also a trend towards mental sports (like esports). We need to do the research on these things correctly. We need to know how we’re going to solve these problems. So far, we’ve been doing it like a frog in a well, getting up early in the morning and exercising. Now we’re going to do it after we get back, driven by data, driven by a scientific approach. We’ll talk about it together.”
South Korea has sent 1,140 athletes to compete in 39 of the 40 sports at the Asian Games. This is the largest number of athletes ever to compete at an Asian Games and the third largest contingent at the Games after China and Thailand.
However, they didn’t quite reach their medal targets. South Korea won 42 gold, 59 silver, and 89 bronze medals. The country achieved its goal of third place overall, but the number of gold medals was lower than expected.
There were no medals in any of the major ball games that receive national attention. Men’s and women’s volleyball did not medal side by side. Men’s basketball lost out to second-ranked Japan and China. Women’s basketball was the only sport to finish with a bronze medal 토토사이트.
Wrestling, judo and other combat sports also fell short of expectations. The president of the Korean Sports Federation, Lee Ki-heung, urged Korean athletes to adopt the practices of the ‘advanced’ countries.
Despite his insistence that Korean athletes should embrace the changed world, he showed interest in “eventual hell training.
He dropped a bombshell just before the end of the press conference, saying, “Next year, before the national athletes move into the Jincheon Athletes’ Village, I’m planning to go to the Marine Corps and do extreme training with them, and I’m planning to do it with them and start training.” The press conference went wild.