Pyeongchang Bobsleigh Hero Won Yoon-jong to deliver the voice of the world's Winter Olympian, selecting the final candidate for the election of the Milan IOC Athletes Commission (Official)
Jun 30, 2025
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The Korean Olympic Committee officially announced on the 30th that "Won Yoon-jong, who won the first medal (silver medal) for South Korea in the four-seater bobsleigh competition at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, has been selected as a candidate for the IOC Athletes' Commission election to be held at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics (hereinafter referred to as Milan-Cortina 2026)". At the executive committee held in Lausanne, Switzerland on the 27th (Korea Standard Time), the IOC announced a list of finalists for the IOC Athletes' Commission election to be held during Milan-Cortina 2026. World-class winter athletes from 11 countries, including Won Yoon-jong, were included.
The IOC Athletes' Commission is directly elected by the Olympic athletes, and the top two vote-getters will serve as IOC Athletes' Commissioners. The IOC Athletes' Commission election will be held from January 30, the opening day of the athletes' village, to February 18, the deadline for polling places. The winner will be officially announced on Feb. 19, the day after the end of the vote. The term of office is eight years, and only one person can be elected per each National Olympic Committee (NOC). South Korea finished its eight-year term at the Paris Summer Olympics last year after Moon Dae-sung was elected as the first athlete committee member at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, and Yoo Seung Min (current chairman of the Korea Sports Council) was elected as a table tennis gold medalist at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.
Won Yun-jong is a South Korean bobsled legend who wrote a new history of winter sports by winning Korea's first sledding event Olympic medal (silver medal) at the PyeongChang Olympics and the first in Asia. Won Yun-jong, who was selected as a domestic candidate by the recommendation of the Korean Olympic Committee earlier this year and was on the list of candidates for the committee announced by the IOC, said, `I want to convey the voices of winter sports athletes from all over the world to the international community and contribute to the rights of athletes and the spirit of the Olympics" conveyed his aspirations.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
