American sports magazine Sports Illustrated (SI) has predicted that swimmers Hwang Sun-woo (Gangwon-do) and Kim Woo-min (Gangwon-do) and track and field high jumper Woo Sang-hyuk (Yongin City Hall) will fail to win a medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics. This is not good news for Korean fans who have high hopes for the athletes.
In an article predicting the winners of every event at the Paris Olympics, SI analyzed South Korea’s performance in Paris with five gold, five silver, and seven bronze medals, and excluded Hwang Sun-woo, Kim Woo-min, and Woo Sang-hyuk from the list of medal favorites.
In Hwang Sun-woo’s signature event, the article predicted that David Popovic (ROM) would win gold, Lukas Martens (GER) would win silver, and Mashe Richards (GBR) would win bronze in the men’s 200-meter freestyle.
In the men’s 400-meter freestyle, where Kim Woo-min will be looking for a medal, Martens will take gold, Elijah Winnington (AUS) will take silver and Samuel Short (AUS) will take bronze.
In the men’s high jump, Jean-Marco Tamberi (ITA) is the favorite to win ahead of Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT). Jervon Harrison (USA) is the bronze medal favorite.
The media outlet also predicted that South Korea would settle for a bronze medal in the women’s individual archery event, which is the country’s gold medal strategy.
Alejandra Valencia of Mexico, Mariří Horáčková of the Czech Republic, and Casey Coffold of the United States will share the podium with gold, silver, and bronze medals.
Of course, SI’s predictions are just that: predictions. SI has gotten some things wrong in its predictions.
For example, it picked Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi to win the women’s singles badminton title when it predicted Se-Young Ahn (Samsung Life Insurance) to win silver.
Ahn and Yamaguchi are most likely to meet in the quarterfinals rather than the final due to the bracket.
The organization also lists Brazil’s Beatriz Soares, who is not competing in Paris, as a bronze medal favorite in the women’s 66-kilogram boxing division.
SI favors South Korea to win gold in the men’s and women’s archery team and mixed team events, as well as badminton men’s doubles (Seo Seung-jae and Kang Min-hyuk) and fencing men’s sabre team.
Ahn Se-young in badminton women’s singles, Lee So-hee (Incheon International Airport) and Baek Hana (MG Saemaul Bank) in women’s doubles, Seo Seung-jae (Samsung Life Insurance) and Chae Yoo-jung (Incheon International Airport) in mixed doubles, the men’s table tennis team event, and Park Hye-jung (Goyang City Hall) in women’s weightlifting 81 kg and above.
Kim Woo-jin (Cheongju City Hall) in the men’s individual archery, Oh Yeon-ji (Ulsan Metropolitan Sports Federation) in the women’s 60kg boxing, the fencing women’s epee team, Ahn Baul (Namyangju City Hall) in the men’s 66kg judo and Heo Mi-mi (Gyeongbuk Sports Federation) in the women’s 57kg, Seo Gun-woo (Korea Gymnastics Federation) in the men’s 80kg and Lee Da-bin (Seoul Metropolitan Government) in the women’s 67kg overweight.
Dark horses Kim Min-jong (Yangpyeong County Office) in the men’s 100-plus kg judo and Park Tae-joon (Kyunghee University) in the men’s 58 kg taekwondo were excluded from the medal picture.
Meanwhile, the outlet picked hosts France to beat Argentina in men’s soccer, while American Noah Lyles is expected to sweep the men’s 100 and 200 meters in track and field.
For North Korea, it said that Moon Hyon-kyong in the women’s 62-kilogram freestyle wrestling would be the only North Korean on the podium with a silver medal. 토토사이트 순위