The women’s handball team, which will be the only ball sport at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, departed for Spain on Monday night for its second European training camp and Olympic qualification campaign.
The team, led by head coach Henrique Signel, will travel to Paris after final preparations in Spain and the Netherlands.
The team convened at Jincheon Athletes’ Training Center on May 13 to begin their Olympic preparations. After the initial three-week training camp, the team traveled to Sweden and Norway from June 2-21 for the first European Training Camp.
The team resumed training at the Jincheon Athletes’ Village on July 1 with the final 17 members of the Olympic roster and will continue its second European training camp in Spain and the Netherlands until July 18.
After the training camp, the team will immediately travel to France, where they will be acclimatized at the Olympic Pre-Olympic Camp of the Korea Sports Federation in Fontainebleau, France on July 19, before moving into the Olympic Village on July 22.
“In the second European training camp, we want to meet the next level of teams that will compete in the Olympics and show that we are ready and can do it,” said Signell in an interview before departure. He also expressed his desire to “bring many victories to Korea so that when we come back to Korea, we will be told that we did well.”
“We want to give it our all and get good results in the first and second games,” said captain Shin Eun-ju. “We want to get off to a good start 카지노사이트 추천 as the first game for the Korean team will be a handball match, and we will overcome the responsibility of being the only team to compete in a ball game.”
This will be the fourth Olympics for Ryu Eun-hee, the ‘eldest sister’ of the European Champions League champions. “I will be playing with the youngest players at the Olympics, and it’s a big advantage to not dwell on each mistake and overcome it right away,” Ryu said. “On the court, everyone plays equally regardless of age, so I want to achieve good results with harmony regardless of age,” she added.
Woo, who was the 2023-24 Handball H League regular season MVP and top scorer, said, “I will use my best mid-range shots and exceptional speed to put up a fight.” H-League Championship MVP Kang Kyung-min, who will be competing in his second Olympics after Tokyo, also vowed to do well in Paris.
The team, which is in Group A at the Paris Olympics, will face Germany on Aug. 25, followed by Slovenia on Aug. 28, Norway on Aug. 30, Sweden on Aug. 1 and Denmark on Aug. 4.