Athletes and officers in the primary batch of the Korean delegation for the Asian Winter Video games present their fists throughout a photograph session at Incheon Worldwide Airport earlier than their departure, Feb. 4, on this photograph supplied by the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee. Yonhap
The principle batch of Korean athletes competing within the ninth Asian Winter Video games arrived within the host metropolis of Harbin, China, Tuesday, three days earlier than the opening ceremony.
With the preliminary motion below means and extra to return within the days main as much as the ceremony, a number of Korean athletes are already within the northeastern Chinese language metropolis. The boys’s and girls’s hockey groups arrived right here final Saturday, adopted by quick monitor pace skaters on Sunday and pace skaters on Monday.
Tuesday’s group featured Korea Ski Snowboard Affiliation President Choi Hong-hoon, the nation’s chef de mission in Harbin, together with 13 cross-country skiers and 15 officers from the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC). Alpine skiers, snowboarders and freestyle skiers will journey to Harbin on Wednesday.
In keeping with the KSOC, Korea could have 148 athletes in whole competing in all six sports activities — snowboarding, skating, curling, hockey, biathlon and ski mountaineering.
On the opening ceremony, male hockey participant Lee Chong-min and feminine roller Gim Eun-ji would be the co-flag bearers for Korea.
That is the primary Asian Winter Video games since 2017, when Korea completed second to the host nation Japan within the medal race with 16 gold medals, 18 silver medals and 16 bronze medals. (Yonhap)
