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| In a meeting with IOC President Kirsty Coventry on the 28th, Chairman of the Korean Olympic Committee Kim Yoo Seung Min presents a Team Korea T-shirt with the signature of the Korean national team and the name of Chairman Kirsty Coventry. Photo courtesy = Korea Sports Council |
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Yoo Seung Min, the chairman of the Korean Olympic Committee, has taken a wide range of sports diplomacy, including a meeting with Kirsty Coventry, chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the 2025 World Swimming Championships in Singapore.
The competition, which will be held in Singapore from July 11 to August 3, was attended by many international sports figures, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Asian Olympic Council (OCA), and the National Olympic Committee (NOC). Chairman Yoo visited Singapore on the opening day of the management race on the 27th. While appealing to the international community's interest and support for the hosting of the 2032 Jeonju Summer Olympics, they shared their opinions on major global issues such as laying the foundation for international sports cooperation, protecting athletes' rights, and creating a sustainable sports environment through successive meetings with IOC members, OCA executives, and member countries.
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| From second left), Chairman of Qatar Olympic Committee Sheikh Joan, Chairman of the Korean Olympic Committee Yoo Seung Min, OCA Secretary General Hussein Al Musalam, Executive Committee member of the World Swimming Federation Park Joo-hee, and Director of International Exchange Park Min-ho. Photo courtesy = Korea Sports Council |
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President Yoo Seung Min met with IOC President Coventry on the 28th and delivered a commemorative T-shirt with the signatures of the Korean national team delivered by video at the 105th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean Olympic Committee on the 16th. Coventry, a former Olympic gold medalist in the backstroke, welcomed the reunion with Yoo, who had been in close communication since he was a member of the IOC athletes' committee. It is the first offline meeting in more than two months since the meeting at the 45th OCA General Assembly in Kuwait in May. Coventry made a surprise appearance on video at the 105th anniversary of its foundation and communicated with Olympians of the same age, including Woo Sang-hyuk (high jump) and Choi Min-jeong (short track), and met with President Yoo at the event, reaffirming the will of continued friendship and cooperation between the two organizations.
In addition, President Yoo, who is from Singapore and has been a mentor since he was a member of the IOC Athletes Commission, prevented Cermien Ng, and discussed the possibility of cooperation in various fields through meetings with OCA Vice Chairman Gordon Tang and OCA Secretary-General Hussein Al Musalam. In addition, he met with Witold Vanka, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and decided to establish a close cooperation system with WADA headquarters for the successful hosting of the 2025 Busan WADA General Assembly scheduled for the end of this year. He then met with major NOC chairmen such as Qatar, Uzbekistan, and Japan to seek various cooperation measures, such as expanding sports exchanges and discovering joint cooperation projects. The Korean Sports Association expressed its will to continue to strengthen strategic cooperation with major sports organizations and countries around the world and further enhance the international status of Korean sports.
Meanwhile, Yoo Seung Min, president of the Korean Olympic Committee, did not miss his sincere steps toward the athletes at the Singapore World Swimming Championships on the 27th. On the first day of the competition, he intuitively cheered for Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Provincial Office)'s 400m freestyle bronze medal scene and also presented gold, silver and bronze medals to Summer Macintosh, 'Canada's 18th Generation' and 'Chinese Shinsung' Living Festival, 'American Legend' Katie Rudecki, respectively. At the Paris Olympics, McIntosh was also caught on camera smiling at the reunion with Chairman Yoo, who had a special relationship that awarded McIntosh.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
