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‘Golf Queen’ Park In-bee is challenging for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission member position.

Park In-bee's agency, Wow Management Group, announced on the 3rd, "Tomorrow, Park In-bee will register as a candidate for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics IOC Athletes' Commission member." This is the procedure by the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee to select the Korean representative for the IOC Athletes' Commission. Candidate nominations will close by 6 p.m. on the 4th, and after internal review by the Athletes' Commission and other procedures, one ‘Korean candidate’ will be finalized. Besides Park In-bee, Kim Yeon-koung (volleyball), Lee Dae-hoon (taekwondo), and Jin Jong-oh (shooting) are also candidates.

'Golf Queen' Park In-bee challenges for IOC athlete representative.

Park In-bee has won 21 titles on the U.S. Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour, including 7 major championships, and earned a gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. She has an impressive resume known as the ‘Golden Slam,’ combining the four major championships and an Olympic gold medal. Park In-bee said, "Based on my experiences at the Rio and Tokyo Olympics, I want to contribute to expanding the influence of the Olympics through various activities that help current and future athletes." She added, "Regardless of the outcome of the IOC Athletes' Commission candidate selection, I plan to always do my best for the development of Korean sports and the Olympics as an Olympian."

National Olympic Committees (NOCs) from each country must recommend ‘one candidate’ to the IOC by September 1. During the 2024 Paris Olympics, which open in July next year, IOC Athletes' Commission members will be elected by ‘athlete voting.’ There have been two Korean-born IOC Athletes' Commission members in history. Moon Dae-sung, a taekwondo gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, was first elected in 2008, and Yoo Seung-min, president of the Korea Table Tennis Association, was elected in 2016 and is currently serving an ‘8-year term.’ IOC Athletes' Commission members have the same rights and duties as IOC members, including voting on the host cities for the Summer and Winter Olympics. This position can also greatly strengthen Korea’s sports diplomacy.

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