Professional Basketball Korea Gas Corporation recruits FAs Jeong-Woo Jeong and Jeong-Hoon Kwak

Professional Basketball Daegu Korea Gas Corporation announced on the 16th that it has recruited free agents (FA) Seong-woo Jeong and Jeong-hoon Kwak.

Jeong Seong-woo, who played for Suwon KT in the 2023-2024 season, signed a contract with Korea Gas Corporation for a four-year period with a total first-year compensation of 450 million won (including 90 million won in incentives).

In addition, Kwak Jeong-hoon, who played at Busan KCC, received a total of 85 million won in compensation for the first year of his three years. 파워볼사이트

Seongwoo Jeong made his professional debut as the 6th overall pick in the 2015 rookie draft, and after playing for Changwon LG and KT, he found a new home at Korea Gas Corporation.

Jeong Seong-woo, who recorded 8.2 points and 4.7 assists in the regular league in the 2023-2024 season, was also the 2015-2016 season rookie award winner.

Kwak Jeong-hoon scored 4.8 points and 2.5 rebounds at KCC last season.

Seong-Woo Jeong is the first player from Sangmyung University to be named Rookie of the Year, and Kwak Jung-Hoon is also Jung-Hoon Jeong's junior at Sangmyung University.

Korea Gas Corporation, ranked 7th in the regular league in the 2023-2024 season, brought in Jeong Seong-woo and Kwak Jeong-hoon, who have scoring ability, to increase their chances of advancing to the playoffs next season.

Korean baduk got off to a shaky start at the Chunlan Cup, a world championship hosted by China.

Korea was eliminated in the round of 24 of the 15th Chunran Cup World Baduk Championships held in Wuyishan, Fujian Province, China on the 19th, with Shin Min-jun, Kim Myung-hoon, and Park Geon-ho all losing in the round of 24. 파워볼게임

Shin Min-jun, ranked 4th in Korea, lost to 9-dan Doramaru Shibano, the Japanese master and 10-dan title holder, in 186 moves.

9th dan Kim Myung-hoon, ranked 5th, lost to China's 9th dan She Erhao, and 9th dan Park Geon-ho, ranked 19th, also lost to 9th dan Yang Kai-won of China.

In China, all five players from the round of 24 won, and in Japan, three out of five players succeeded in advancing to the round of 16.

Korea is aiming to turn the tide as Shin Jin-seo, Park Jeong-hwan, and Byun Sang-il, ranked 1st to 3rd, are scheduled to participate in the round of 16 on the 21st.

Shin Jin-seo and others received the ‘bujeon seed’ and went straight to the round of 16.

In both rounds of 16, Korea-China matches will take place.

Jo Jae-ho and Kim Ga-young Receive the Grand Prize at the Professional Billiards PBA Awards Ceremony

Signer and Han Ji-eun, who created a sensation, won the Rookie of the Year award together.

‘Superman’ Jo Jae-ho (NH Nonghyup Card) and ‘Billiards Empress’ Kim Ga-young (Hana Card) were selected as the best stars of the professional billiards PBA this season. 파워볼게임

Jae-ho Cho and Ga-young Kim both received the grand prize at the '2023-24 Season Professional Billiards PBA Golden Cue Awards Ceremony' held by the Professional Billiards Association (PBA) at Grand Walkerhill Seoul, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 19th.

Jae-ho Cho won the 7th tour (High1 Resort Championship) of the season in the men's PBA, and took the top spot at the 'SK Rent-a-Car Jeju Special Self-Governing Province PBA World Championship 2024' on the 17th, winning 200 million won in prize money and finishing season 1 with a total prize money of 319 million won.

Climbed on top.

Kim Ga-young also had the best year by winning the 5th tour (Huons Championship) and then reaching the top of the LPBA World Championship, taking first place in the season rankings with a prize money of 120.05 million won.

Jae-ho Cho, along with teammate Hyun-woo Kim, won four awards, including the best doubles award, the best singles award, and the ‘Jevisco Prize Ranking’ prize money winner.

Jo Jae-ho expressed his thoughts, saying, "My goal next year is to win the World Championship once more.

I need to win the regular tour quickly to take the pressure off."

National Sports Festival, MVP Competition Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min team up to win the 400m relay… Securing 3rd and 4th awards

Korean swimming stars Hwang Seon-woo and Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Provincial Office) won gold medals together at the 104th Jeonnam National Sports Festival (National Sports Festival), securing three and four gold medals, respectively.

Sun-Woo Hwang and Woo-Min Kim represented Gangwon with Jae-Hoon Yang and Min-Jun Kim (Gangwon Provincial Office) in the men's 400m relay final held at the Mokpo Indoor Swimming Pool in Jeollanam-do on the 17th, winning with a record of 3 minutes 15.94 seconds. 파워볼게임

They won the gold medal after a close battle with Daegu representatives Yang Seok-hyun, Ji Yu-chan, Kim Jin-won, and Lee Ho-jun (Daegu City Hall, 3 minutes 16.37 seconds).

The Korean record (3 minutes 12.96 seconds) set at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games last month could not be broken.

Sun-woo Hwang won his third gold medal, following the men's 800m relay on the 15th and the men's 200m freestyle on the 16th.

He is aiming for additional gold medals by participating in the 100m freestyle (18th), 400m medley relay (19th), and the 400m mixed medley relay (18th) in the general division, which will be held as an exhibition match.

Kim Woo-min won gold medals in the 1,500m freestyle on the 14th and the 800m relay on the 15th, and added gold medals in the 400m freestyle and 400m relay on the same day, securing four gold medals.

Kim Woo-min has two events remaining, the 400m medley relay and the 400m mixed medley relay (exhibition match).

While the exhibition match is not included in the record of multiple wins, the two are aiming for five wins together.

Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min are also competing for the Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) of this tournament.

If Hwang Sun-woo, MVP of the 2021 and 2022 tournaments, wins this tournament as well, he will become MVP for three consecutive years for the first time in history.

The two suffered from food poisoning after eating the wrong food with their Gangwon Provincial Office colleagues just before the opening of the competition, but they are competing in a friendly competition, sweeping up the gold medal despite the worst conditions.

KT Wiz manager Lee Kang-cheol announced rookie Won Sang-hyun as the starting pitcher for the team’s third game of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League against the Doosan Bears at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on Monday.

Won is a highly touted prospect who was selected by KT with the seventh overall pick in the first round of the 2024 KBO Draft.

At the time, KT said, “Won is a right-handed pitcher with excellent athleticism, a fastball that tops out at 150km/h and a reliable changeup. 파워볼

He is an immediate power pitcher with excellent game management skills, including aggressive pitching on the mound.”

The team expressed its expectations for Won.

At the time of the rookie draft, Won Sang-hyun’s impressions of being selected by KT were the center of attention.

The Busan man’s KBO role model was not his hometown club, the Lotte Giants, but KT.

The main character is Choi Min-joon, who won the 2020 Rookie of the Year award and has since established himself as KT’s leading pitcher.

“I’m happy to join KT,” Won Sang-hyun said.

When I was finishing up my first year of high school, I realized that I wanted to be a starter after watching him.

North Korea has withdrawn from the 2023 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, China after the Asian Paralympic Committee refused to permit the North Korean flag to be flown at the Games due the country’s non-compliance with global anti-doping regulations.

“I can confirm that NPC DPRK has withdrawn from the Games,” a spokesperson for the Asian Paralaympic Committee told the Korea Joong Ang Daily in an email Wednesday, referring to the National Paralympics Committee of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the country’s official name.

“They took this decision after they were informed by the Asian Paralympic Committee that, as stipulated by WADA, the country flag of DPRK would not appear at any venues during the Asian Para Games as DPRK is non-compliant with the WADA code. 파워볼사이트

“Whilst we are sorry that their athletes won’t be in Hangzhou, the Asian Paralympic Committee is a signatory to the WADA code and therefore needs to implement their rulings.”

North Korea was declared non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in October 2021 due to a lack of transparency or outside inspection of the North Korean anti-doping association.

As a consequence, the North Korean flag is banned from being flown at any major sporting event other than the Olympics and Paralympics.

As a signatory, the Asian Paralympic Committee is required to follow the WADA sanction.

North Korea competed at the Hangzhou Asian Games despite that sanction, with the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) actively choosing to ignore the WADA ban and allowing the North to compete under its own flag.

The OCA is also a WADA signatory, and could be censured or punished by WADA for allowing the North to use the flag in Hangzhou.

SIBION TECH, RANKED FIRST IN WOMEN'S TENNIS, FALLS BEHIND KALINSKAYA, WHO PASSED THE PRELIMINARY ROUND

WTA Dubai Championship semi-final elimination.

Iga Sibiontech (Poland), ranked No. 1 in the Women's Professional Tennis (WTA) ranking, failed to advance to the finals after losing to qualifier Anna Kalinskaya (40th, Russia) at the Dubai Championship (total prize money: $3,211,715).

Sibiong Tech defeated Kalinskaya 0-2 (4-6 4-6) in 1 hour and 42 minutes in the women's singles semifinal on the 6th day of her competition held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the 23rd (local time). lost. 파워볼

Siviong Tech, which showed off its health by winning the Qatar Open after being eliminated in the third round of the Australian Open, a major tournament, failed to win two tournaments in a row.

After passing the preliminaries, Kalinskaya defeated 9th place Yelena Ostapenko (Latvia) and 3rd place Coco Goff (USA) in the finals, and even defeated 1st place Sibion ​​Tech to advance to the finals.

The last time a qualifier defeated two of the top three players in a WTA tournament was Amelie Mauresmo (France), who defeated Lindsey Davenport (USA) and Jana Novotna (Czech Republic) at the 1998 Berlin tournament. It was a year ago.

Kalinskaya consistently played aggressively and defeated Sibion ​​Tech.

It has been almost a year since Civil Tech lost without winning even a set.

The 105th National Winter Sports Festival Opens on the 22nd... A Four-Day Battle in Gangwon-do

The National Winter Sports Festival, which celebrates its 105th anniversary this year, will be held in the Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province for four days starting on the 22nd.

This year's Winter Sports Games will feature 4,278 athletes (2,740 athletes and 1,538 officials) from 17 cities and provinces across the country.

The opening ceremony, which was canceled after the 100th competition in 2019 due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), will be held again for the first time in five years at the Grand Ballroom of Yongpyeong Resort in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do at 5 p.m. on the 22nd.

Among the eight sports, speed skating, short track, bobsled, and skeleton on ice have already decided on medal winners through preliminary competitions in January and February of this year. 파워볼

The curling event also started early and ended on the 22nd, and the figure skating competition began on the 20th at Chuncheon Uiam Ice Rink.

Sports held during the official competition period include figure skating, ice hockey (Gangneung), skiing (Pyeongchang and Jeongseon), biathlon, luge (Pyeongchang), and ice climbing (Cheongsong, Gyeongsangbuk-do).

Gangwon-do signed a business agreement with the Korea Sports Council to independently host the Winter Sports Games for five years from this year to 2028.

The Korea Sports Council will also award the 1st to 3rd place overall and the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of this year's Winter Sports Festival at the 70th Sports Awards ceremony held at the Olympic Parktel in Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 29th.