There was Jin Jong-oh, the “Shooting God,” who won Korea’s first three Olympic shooting titles, and Lee Sang-hwa, the “ice queen” who became the first Asian athlete to win two consecutive Olympic gold medals in speed skating. appointed as the new organizers of the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Park Bo-gyun presented letters of appointment to the new chairman of the organizing committee and new executive officers at the inauguration ceremony of the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games held at the International Conference Center at the Press Center in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 21st.
Minister Park congratulated the launch of the 2nd Organizing Committee and said, “Through the ‘Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games’ 2024, ‘a world that unites through K-culture and sports’ will be presented so that future generations of athletes can remember Korea as a country of cultural attraction. I’ll do it,” and asked for a lot of interest in the competition.
Organizing Committee Chairman Lee Sang-hwa, who was appointed on this day, is a gold medalist who became the first Asian athlete to win two gold medals in a row in speed skating at the Olympics, and is an ice skating legend who also won a silver medal. medal at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
Jin Jong-oh, chairman of the Organizing Committee, is also a gold medalist who set a legendary record of winning three consecutive Olympic shooting events for the first time as a Korean.
The two organizers are young athletes representing winter and summer respectively, and are expected to actively communicate and interact with the young players (15-18 years old), the protagonists of the tournament this.
Yoo Byung-jin, vice president of the Korea Sports Council, and Yoo Seung-min, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), were appointed vice-chairmen. Eleven members were appointed as executive committee members, including representatives from all winter events (biathlon, skiing, ice skating, and ice hockey) and experts in sports, youth, culture and art, and tourism.
Kim Yu-na, who has served as a PR ambassador since February last year, and Kim Joo-won, a ballerina, also joined the executive committee. The second organizing committee will be launched with 43 members, including one each for the legal and accounting auditors.
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