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- "We will contribute to fostering unpopular events and promoting national prestige"
The Korean Air Clay Shooting Team held an inaugural ceremony on the 9th and officially launched.
Korean Air held a clay shooting team founding ceremony at the Korean Air headquarters in Gangseo-gu, Seoul earlier in the day.
Clay shooting is a game in which you hit a disc-shaped target flying into the sky with a gun. It was adopted as an official event at the 1900 Paris Olympics and became widely known around the world. However, among the detailed shooting events, it is considered to have a weak foundation for training elite athletes due to its high cost and low level of players.
The establishment of the Korean Air Clay Shooting Team was designed to contribute to the expansion of the base and revitalization of events by fostering unpopular events, and to contribute to the promotion of national prestige by training national shooting teams and winning medals in international competitions.
Korean Air's clay shooting team will be played by Ibona (44), who won the silver (double trap) and bronze (trap) at the 2004 Athens Olympics and won the first medal in Korean clay shooting history. A playing coach refers to a position in which he plays as a player and also serves as a coach. Um So-yeon (37), who joined together, has been a player since 2010 and is a veteran who has won multiple awards at domestic and international competitions.
An official of Korean Air said, "We plan to actively support the clay shooting team to show their skills at home and abroad," adding, "Korean Air will continue to support unpopular sports and expand its base."
Meanwhile, Korean Air is continuously making efforts to develop domestic sports. It is striving to develop the Korean sports community by operating the men's professional volleyball team "Korean Air Jumbos," the women's table tennis team, the disabled sports team, and sponsoring various sports competitions.
In addition, through the "Excellence Program," it provides air tickets necessary for international competitions and training to athletes who have increased their pride and national awareness by demonstrating their outstanding abilities in each field of sports.
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