Ahn dropped a bombshell. “Like the Archery Association,” she said, criticizing the organization’s administration.
She wasn’t the only one. Football fans also criticized the federation with the words “just like the archery federation”. It’s not just soccer or badminton. Athletes and officials of all sports have been chanting the phrase “if you do it like the Archery Federation, you can’t fail”.
In terms of administration and support, they are unrivaled. That’s why soccer fans have been flooding online message boards saying, “Can you please be the head of the soccer federation as well?”
According to the Korean Archery Association, there are 404 unemployed archers registered this year. Only South Korea has such an abundance of athletes. But just because you have the best athletes doesn’t mean you can always win. It’s up to the Korean Archery Federation to control the many variables and allow them to showcase their best skills on the best stage possible.
The archery federation has provided “full support” to the athletes in the lead-up to the Games.
A ‘set’ was set up at the Jincheon Athletes’ Village to replicate the Angbalid archery venue at the Tokyo Olympics. Structures such as signboards and large display boards were incorporated into the set stadium, reflecting the colors of the Games. The pathway from the entrance to the stadium to the interview area for the four battalions and the media was made to look exactly like the real thing, and the announcer’s comments, cheers, and noises from the crowd were played in French and English to enhance the realism.
Shooting as many as 600 arrows a day on this “fake Avalides,” the athletes were at the top of their game on the real Avalides. The venue’s location on the Seine also prepared it for the challenging winds.
The distance from the Seine River to the venue is about 200 to 300 meters. The archery association set up a training ground 300 meters from the Namhan River in Yeoju, Gyeonggi-do, and trained for three days from June 2. It was a “stroke of genius.
“(Envallid) was a little tricky, a little tricky, a little tricky because it was a little windy and it wasn’t windy and it wasn’t windy and it wasn’t windy…it was a little tricky,” said three-time gold medalist Lim Im-hyun. “I think the training in the strong winds was the 토토사이트 추천 reason for the good results.”
The archery federation also went all out to support the athletes on site in Paris. With the help of Hyundai Motor Company, the archers rented the Stade Franche, a 140-year-old sports club in the Ile-de-France neighborhood, for the entire event.
In addition, a hotel located two minutes away from the venue was set up as a rest area for the athletes to relax in between games. In addition to the six rooms, we rented the entire second floor lounge.
When Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Eui-sun accompanied the president on his tour of France last year, he took the time to tour the facilities to check if there were any problems with transportation, archery federation officials said.
“Korean archery is well organized,” said three-time champion Kim Woo-jin. Everyone has a chance if they are good enough. There is a fair Korea Archery Association, so all athletes compete on an equal footing without cheating,” said Kim.
“The chairman of the Korean Archery Association (Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Eui-sun) is very interested in archery. He is thinking about how to keep the country at the top of the world, and that’s why it continues to be so strong.”
“I think the medal count has increased because the federation has helped the athletes do as well as they tried to do, or even better than they tried to do,” said Chung.