[Olympics] Number of Athletes Attending Opening Ceremony Reduced by 11 for Condition Maintenance...

Zhangjiakou and Yanqing Athlete Villages Far Apart... Severe Cold Also Forecasted

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The number of Korean athletes attending the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be reduced by half. On the 4th, the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee announced, "The number of athletes attending the opening ceremony has been adjusted from twenty to eleven. Officials will attend as planned."

This decision was made considering that it could affect the athletes' condition. The athlete villages in Zhangjiakou and Yanqing, where the athletes stay, are quite far from Beijing, where the opening ceremony is held. The weather on that day is also forecasted to be extremely cold, which could impact performance. The Zhangjiakou athlete village is mainly used by skiing athletes, and the Yanqing athlete village is mainly used by sledding athletes. Ice skating athletes stay in the Beijing athlete village.

The Korean delegation will enter the opening ceremony held at the Beijing National Stadium at 9 p.m. that day as the seventy-third group. Short track skaters Kwak Yoon-gi and Kim A-rang (both from Goyang City Hall) will serve as flag bearers, leading twenty-eight officials and nine athletes. The attending athletes are figure skating men's singles Lee Si-hyung (Pangok High School), bobsleigh and skeleton athletes Won Yoon-jong, Kim Dong-hyun (both from Gangwon Province Office), Seok Young-jin (Korea National Sport University), Jeong Hyun-woo, Kim Tae-yang (both from Korea National Sport University), and luge athletes Park Jin-yong (Seolcheon High School), Jo Jeong-myeong (Gangwon Province Office), and Freese Aileen (Gyeonggi Province Office).

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