71 'Taegeuk Warriors' confirmed to participate in the Milan/Cortina Winter Olympics... "Good son event." 10 short trackers

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71 national athletes for the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics have been confirmed.

The Korean Olympic Committee announced on the 22nd that the South Korean team for the Winter Olympics as of now consists of 71 athletes and 59 executives.

The number of players is six more than the 2022 Beijing Games (65).

By sport, snowboarding had the largest number of athletes with 11 players. Short track speed skating is followed by 10 short track speed skaters, 10 bobsledders, and 9 speed skaters. There are seven curling players, six figure skating players, five freestyle skis, three skeleton and cross country players, two alpine skis and biathlon players, and one luge player. On top of that, a total of two additional people, one from the Alpine skiing women's team and one from the freestyle skiing women's mogul, have secured qualifications.

However, there is a possibility that the number of final athletes participating in the Olympics will increase further as the number of participants will continue to be reallocated until just before the competition due to the occurrence of vacancies.

More than 2,900 athletes from about 90 National Olympic Committee (NOC) will participate in the Winter Olympics, which will open on February 7th, Korean time, to compete for 116 gold medals in eight sports and 16 sub-sports.

The South Korean team will hold a decisive ceremony at the Olympic Parktel in Seoul on the 22nd, and the main team will depart for Italy on the 30th.

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