‘Only Two People’ in 40 Years… Koo Bon-gil Will Serve as the Flag Bearer for the Opening Ceremony for Both the Olympics and Asian Games.

2010 AG and 2012 Olympics Yoon Kyeong-shin's next record... “I am honored and grateful”

Koo Bon-gil (34, Korea Sports Promotion Foundation), a leading figure in men's fencing who is challenging for the most gold medals ever for a Korean athlete at the Hangzhou Asian Games, which opens on the 23rd of this month, has become the protagonist of a special record even before the competition begins in earnest. 온라인카지노

Koo Bon-gil was selected along with swimming's Kim Seo-young (Gyeongbuk Provincial Office) as the flagbearer of the Korean team that will participate in the opening ceremony of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games to be held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium in China on the 23rd.

In particular, Koo Bon-gil served as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, so he had the honor of being the 'face' of Korea at both the Asian Games and the Olympics.

It is even more rare to be the flag bearer for the opening ceremony at both the Olympics and Asian Games, which are held once every four years and are considered a 'dream' for athletes to even participate.

If you look at the list of flagbearers for the Korean team at the Summer Olympics and Asian Games over the past 40 years, starting with the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, for which relevant records are available, the only person who has served as flagbearer for both competitions is handball legend Yoon Kyeong-shin (50), the current Doosan coach.

Gu Bon-gil is the second example.

Coach Yoon, who won five gold medals at the Asian Games as an athlete and participated in the Olympics five times until the 2012 London Games, led the way by holding the Taegeukgi at both the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games and the opening ceremony of the London Olympics two years later.

Koo Bon-gil’s resume is just as spectacular as Director Yoon’s.

Since the 2010 Guangzhou Games, he has won three consecutive men's saber individual fencing events in the past three Asian Games and won two gold medals in the team events (2014 Incheon, 2018 Jakarta and Palembang).

In Hangzhou, he is aiming for his fourth consecutive win in the individual event at the Asian Games and his 'double win' in three consecutive competitions.

If he wins the individual and team events at this tournament, he will win a total of 7 gold medals, surpassing the 6 held by senior fencing senior Nam Hyun-hee (retired) and setting a new record for the most gold medals at the Asian Summer Games by a Korean player.

It seems that the fact that he has been active in the national team for a long time and has achieved results and that he can leave a symbolic record in this competition was also taken into consideration in selecting the flag bearer.

Koo Bon-gil is also an Olympic gold medalist who contributed to Korea's men's saber team gold medal at the London Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Koo Bon-gil said, "For sports athletes, the Olympics and Asian Games are the most important competitions, and it is a great personal honor to be the flag bearer in a competition representing the country."

“I’m also happy to have the same record,” he said.

“I felt a lot of pressure during the Rio Olympics, but I was grateful and meaningful because of the thought of ‘honor of the family,’” he recalled.

“After experiencing being an Olympic flag bearer, I decided to do my best this time, so I will do my best and, most importantly, perform well in the competition.” He emphasized.

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