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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Choi Hwi-young) announced that it held the "2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Paralympics Korean Team Determination Ceremony" at the Olympic Parktel Olympia Hall on the 2nd with the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled (Chairman Chung Jin-wan). Minister Choi Hwi-young visited the site of the determination ceremony and encouraged athletes who have been working hard to train for the Paralympic stage.
More than 150 people attended the ceremony, including Chung Jin-wan, president of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled, Yang Oh-yeol, head of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled, executives and employees of the provincial sports association, and officials from the Gyeonggi Federation. At the event, video screenings of the team's training process, introduction of the team, opening ceremony, attendance speech, short-term awarding, and celebratory performances were held. In particular, Minister Choi Hwi-young sent a message of encouragement to the players and prayed for their safe return.
The 2026 Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Paralympics will be held in Italy from March 6-15. About 50 athletes (about 16 athletes and about 30 executives) will participate in five events (alpha-skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, cross-country, and wheelchair curling).
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled will deploy advanced scientific equipment such as high-pressure oxygen recovery devices, muscle low-frequency stimulators, and cooling therapy devices for compression to the site in preparation for this competition. In addition to technical support, professional personnel such as sports science researchers and equipment managers will also reside there to help players quickly adapt to environmental changes.
The safety and health management of the team were also thoroughly prepared. Medical offices are operated inside Cortina and Fredacho athletes' villages, and medical staff maintain a 24-hour emergency response system. Medical crisis response guidelines (manuals) for frequent frostbite and cardiovascular diseases in winter sports will be distributed to all athletes, and doping and classification disputes will also be prepared.
In Italy, it operates a "Korea House" that utilizes the style of hanok as a public relations center for promoting "K-Sports" and culture and a venue for international sports exchanges for the disabled. In particular, Korean lunch boxes cooked on the same day are delivered to athletes' villages and stadiums every day by operating a meal support center in Korea House, and "Korean food corrosion" consisting of soybean paste soup, stir-fried kimchi, and perilla leaves is also provided separately.
"All the trajectories you draw on the ice and snow fields are in themselves the history of sports for the disabled in Korea and a message of hope to our people," Minister Choi Hui-young said. "We will support the whole nation to show our skills and come back safely without injury."
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