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The chairman of the Korean Sports Council, Yoo Seung Min, met Yao Ming, a Chinese basketball star from the NBA.
Chairman Yoo left the country on the weekend to attend the 45th Asian Olympic Council (OCA) General Assembly to be held in Kuwait City, Kuwait from the 10th to the 14th.
About 400 people, including representatives of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) from 45 Asian countries, will attend the general meeting under the theme of One Asia, along with Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and Kirsty Coventry, who was elected as the new chairman at the IOC General Assembly on March 20 and is scheduled to take office at the General Assembly in June.
Chairman Yoo participated in the OCA General Assembly as KOC representative and coordinator of the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi and Nagoya. Chairman Yoo has contributed to the development of Asian sports by serving as chairman and executive member of the OCA Player Relations Committee from 2019 to 2023. Yao Ming will attend the OCA General Meeting as a key and special speaker representing Asian sports along with 'Smile Jumper'U Sang-hyuk's rival and 'Qatar High Jump Hero'Mutaz Varshim to give a special lecture on the professionalism of sports.
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| Source=Yoo Seung Min, president of the Korea Sports Council SNS |
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On the 11th, Chairman Yoo took a photo of himself chatting with Yao Ming and exchanging souvenirs of friendship on his SNS. Chairman Yoo Seung Min (2004 Athens Olympics), who was recorded as the only gold medalist in the 2000s in the men's singles event of the 2004 Athens Olympics, is also a familiar name for the Chinese. Yao Ming, who was born in 1980, is two years older than Yoo and is a sports hero representing both countries of the same generation, so he has a lot in common. He is a sports star-turned-administrator representing both countries. Chairman Yoo participated in the 2002 Busan Asian Games, 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, and 2008 Beijing Olympics, and Chairman Yoo retired after the 2012 London Olympics and was elected to the IOC athletes commission in 2016 to become a sports administrator, and was elected as the president of the Korea Table Tennis Association earlier this year. After retiring in 2011, Yao Ming took office as president of the Chinese Basketball Association in February 2017 and served as the head of Chinese basketball for seven years until resigning last year.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
