Lee Bo-na, A 20-Year-Younger Junior Keeps Calling me Older Sister

Paris Team's Eldest Sister, Lee Bo-na, "A 20-Year-Younger Junior Keeps Calling me Older Sister…"

Born in 1981, the oldest Korean athlete in the Paris Olympics and a silver and bronze medalist at the Athens Olympics… “I will shoot without being obsessed with the results.”

Shooting, where mental strength is more important than physical ability, is a sport where it is not hard to find veteran athletes in their 40s.

However, it takes superhuman effort to overcome competition with younger athletes and wear the Taegeuk mark well into your 40s.

Lee Bo-na (Busan City Hall), a living witness to Korean clay shooting, is scheduled to compete in the women's trap shotgun event at the Paris Olympics. 카지노사이트

For Lee Bo-na, who competed in the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Paris is her first Olympic stage in 16 years.

Born in 1981, Lee Bo-na, the oldest Korean athlete in the Paris Olympics at 43 years old, said in a recent interview with reporters, "I'm getting older, so I think Paris might be my last Olympics," and "If my skills continue to improve, I can think about the next time, but for now, I think this is my last Olympics."

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo mentioned Lee Bo-na separately at the Paris Olympic team inauguration ceremony held on the 9th, showing that she has left a big mark on the history of Korean shooting.

Exactly 20 years ago, at the Athens Olympics, Lee Bo-na won a silver medal in double trap and a bronze medal in trap, becoming an Olympic medalist.

Even now, Lee Bo-na is the only Korean shotgun shooter to have won an Olympic medal.

Lee Bo-na said, "20 years ago, I went out without knowing anything and won a medal.

But I didn't know it would become so heavy.

This time, I'm not going to be obsessed with the results, and I'm going to shoot faithfully and enjoyably."

Lee Bo-na, who already has a silver and bronze medal at the Olympics, can also collect a gold medal if she stands on the top of the podium at the Paris Olympics.

Lee Bo-na, who wants to win a gold medal in Paris to promote the charm of shotgun rather than for personal glory, said, "Shotgun has few professional teams, so if I have a sense of responsibility and do well this time, I think good professional teams will be created and many good players will come.

That's what I have to do as a senior."

This time, Korea will have three shotgun athletes, Lee Bo-na, Kim Min-soo (Armed Forces Athletic Corps), and Jang Guk-hee (KT).

Kim Min-soo and Jang Guk-hee will compete in the men's and women's skeet events, and they will also compete in the mixed skeet event.

Both athletes were born in 2000, making them 19 years younger than the eldest member of the national team, Lee Bo-na.

Lee Bo-na boasted about her juniors, saying, "My juniors work much harder than me and are passionate, so I have high hopes for their future."

Despite the considerable age difference, he doesn't seem to mind the fact that his juniors approach him without hesitation.

Lee Bo-na smiled and said, "When I went to the Olympics 20 years ago, I went with a senior who was 20 years older than me.

Back then, I just called them 'senior,' but these days, my juniors who are 20 years younger keep calling me 'sister.

'Even when I tell them, 'Wouldn't it be better to call me senior?', they don't care and just call me 'sister.

'I like it because it makes me feel younger."

What I want to tell my juniors is that the Olympics shouldn't be the only goal in life.

Lee Bo-na said, "Winning a medal at the Olympics doesn't mean you'll be happy, and not winning a medal doesn't mean you'll be a failure.

Don't bet everything on the Olympics, but think of it as just one of your goals."

When I asked Ivona about the appeal of the shotgun, she replied, "It makes my heart explode."

"With a shotgun, you can clearly see the target breaking, so it makes my heart explode.

They say that in the past, people played shotguns more than golf, so I hope they enjoy the appeal of this sport that looks cool."