The main team of the South Korean team participating in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics has entered Paris, France, the final destination.

The 48-member delegation, including 18 executives from the headquarters of the Korea Sports Association, 20 fencing and 10 table tennis teams, arrived at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport early on the 21st.

The men's fencing men's sabre team leader Koo Bon-gil National Sports Promotion Agency, who was selected as the main flag bearer, entered Paris after more than 14 hours of flight from Incheon International Airport on the morning of the 20th Korean time.

After landing the aircraft, it took about two hours to arrive at the arrival hall after the arrival process, so the players looked somewhat tired, but they came into Paris with a smile.

The Summer Olympics, which will be held in Paris for the first time in 100 years since 1924, will start with the opening ceremony at the Seine River in Paris on the 26th and run until August 11. A total of 260 athletes 143 athletes, 90 athletes, 27 headquarters executives will participate in 21 events.

Except for women's handball in team ball games such as soccer, basketball, and volleyball, Korea, which has the smallest number of athletes in 48 years since the 1976 Montreal Olympics, aims to win more than five gold medals and finish in the top 15 in the overall ranking.

Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korea Sports Council, said shortly after entering the country, "I feel nervous after arriving in Paris. Our players, leaders, and staff have been thoroughly preparing for it, but I have a great sense of responsibility because we have to realize it well and give joy to the people," adding, "We will do our best to achieve better results than we initially aimed for."

As the number of athletes decreases, there are concerns about their performance, but it is also true that foreign media such as the U.S. media set the expected performance of the Korean team as high as seven to eight gold medals. Archery, fencing, taekwondo, swimming and badminton are among the events that are expected to lead the medal race.

The team is already entering Paris one after another in each event, starting with badminton and shooting on the 12th, followed by swimming and archery on the 16th. Many of the athletes are being tempered at the "Team Korea Paris Platform," the first pre-camp for the Summer Olympics in 12 years since the 2012 London Games.

More than 130 people, including badminton and swimming management teams, are already living on the Team Korea Paris platform set up at the French National Defense Sports Center CNSD in Fontainebleau, near Paris, and the fencing team who arrived on the same day will also join. 슬롯사이트 순위

On the other hand, the national table tennis team, which came in on the 21st, will enter the athletes' village and start adapting to the local area.

"The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has prepared about 90 air coolers in preparation for the heat," said Jeong Kang-sun, head of the Jeollabuk-do Sports Council. "As the results can be changed by a small difference, we will prepare anything that can be put into the players to make themselves in perfect physical condition," he said. "We will also actively support time difference adaptation and diet."

After this day, the artistic swimming 22nd, alarm 24th, and diving, taekwondo, and horseback riding 25th teams will head to Paris in turn.

The Korean national team will start from archery and handball on Saturday, a day before the opening ceremony. The archery team will start the ranking round, and the women's handball team, the only team that will participate in this year's Olympics, will play its first match against Germany.

On the 27th, the day after the opening, Kim Woo-min in the men's 400m freestyle swimming, Koo Bon-gil and Oh Sang-wook in the fencing men's sabre individual will challenge for the first medal of the Korean team and further gold.