‘Smile Jumper’ Woo Sang-hyuk (28) is ready to fly towards the golden sky of Paris.
Woo Sang-hyuk, the star of Korean high jump, entered the Olympic Village in Saint-Denis, Paris, France on the 5th. Although
this is Woo Sang-hyuk’s first time entering the village, it has been a long time since he stayed in Paris.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who entered France on the 14th, has been undergoing local adaptation training at a pre-camp set up by the Korea Sports Council at the French National Sports Center of Defense (CNSD) in Fontainebleau, on the outskirts of Paris.
He briefly got some ‘outdoor air’ as the flag bearer for the Korean team at the opening ceremony on the 27th of last month, but later returned to camp.
Woo Sang-hyeok, who prepared for this competition with a ‘shaved’ head, saying, “I want to run even 1cm more,” expressed his confidence by saying, “I wish the competition would start quickly. I will put my whole body into it.”
The men’s high jump competition at this year’s competition will begin at 5:05 PM on the 7th at the Stade de France athletics stadium near the athletes’ village. A total of 31 athletes will compete in the men’s high jump, and the top 12 will compete in the finals. The finals will be held at 2 AM on the 11th. This is Woo Sang-hyuk’s third Olympics. In his first stage, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, he was eliminated in the preliminaries with a jump of 2m26. In the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, he set a new Korean record of 2m35 and came in 4th. Woo Sang-hyuk considers ‘2m37’ to be the ‘Olympic medal height’. His personal best is 2m36, and this year’s best is 2m33. Mutaz Barsim (Qatar), the Tokyo Olympics gold medalist and currently considered the ‘best jumper’, holds the best record of 2m43. The best record of Gian Marco Tamberi (Italy), who shared the gold medal with Barsim at the Tokyo Games, is 2m37. Hamish Kerr (New Zealand, 2m36) and Jervon Harrison (USA, 2m34) are also considered medal candidates.
Meanwhile, Tamberg was hospitalized three days before the final.
The BBC reported that “Tamberg was hospitalized three days before the start of the Paris Olympic preliminaries with symptoms suspected of kidney problems.”
Tamberg posted a photo of himself lying in a hospital bed on social media.
He said, “I felt a stabbing pain in my side. My body temperature is 38.8 degrees. But I will give my soul until the last jump.”
Tamberg has been a hot topic since the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
At the opening ceremony of this competition, Tamberg, who was the Italian flag bearer, dropped his wedding ring into the river while waving the national flag on a boat.
He publicly apologized to his wife on social media the next day.
Tamberg wrote, “If I have to lose my wedding ring, there is no better place than Paris. I hope this will be a good omen for me to return home with a gold medal.” 바카라사이트