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S.Korea to send 45 athletes for Vancouver Winter Olympics

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-01-19 22:56
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SEOUL: South Korea will send an 82-member team, including 45 athletes and 37 officials, the largest in the nation's history, for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada slated for February 12-28, the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) said on Tuesday.

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The 45 athletes, including 26 men and 19 women, will compete in four sports of skating, skiing, the biathlon and bobsleigh-skeleton, the KOC said.

Twenty-eight will took part in the skating competitions, led by Kim Yu-na, South Korea's "Figure Skater Queen" and the 2009 world champion, who is widely seen as the clear favorite for the gold in February's Winter Olympic Games.

South Korea ranked seventh at the Turin Winter Olympics four years ago, by winning six golds, three silvers and one bronze, all from speed skating competitions.

The country has won 31 Winter Olympic medals in total, and 29 of them from the short track speed skating events.
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