Korean Sport & Olympic Committee President-elect Ryu Seung-min offers a speech earlier than the election on the Olympic Corridor inside Olympic Park in Seoul, Tuesday. Yonhap
Former Olympic desk tennis champion Ryu Seung-min was elected as head of the South Korean Olympic committee Tuesday.
In what’s extensively thought to be a monumental upset, Ryu earned 417 votes from 1,209 voters to turn out to be the brand new president of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee, denying incumbent Lee Kee-heung a 3rd time period. Lee completed in second place amongst six candidates with 379 votes.
Ryu gained the lads’s singles gold medal on the 2004 Athens Olympics. In his post-athletic profession, Ryu served as a member of the Worldwide Olympic Committee from 2016 to 2024 and president of the Korea Desk Tennis Affiliation.
With Lee dealing with a collection of misconduct allegations, Ryu, 42, constructed his marketing campaign round restoring extra transparency to South Korean sports activities.
Acknowledging his victory, Ryu mentioned he felt „an enormous sense of accountability.“
„I do know there are such a lot of urgent points to deal with in sports activities at this time, and I will not be capable to do it alone,“ Ryu mentioned. „I believe folks in sports activities all have to come back collectively to make it doable. I’ll strive my greatest to convey everybody collectively.“
The election appeared at risk of being postponed when a gaggle of 11 voters, led by Korea Ice Hockey Affiliation President Lee Ho-jin, and an election candidate Kang Shin-wook every filed for an injunction to halt the proceedings final Wednesday.
They cited a variety of procedural points with the election, together with the placement of the vote and the composition of the electoral faculty.
Nonetheless, the Seoul Jap District Courtroom dismissed them on the eve of the vote, permitting the election to happen as scheduled. (Yonhap)
