Gymnastics Ryu Seong-hyeon and Kim Han-sol

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Tokyo Olympics floor exercise 4th and 8th place… “This time I will stand on top of the podium”

As technical scores are high, performance scores are the key… Perfect landing is the key

Kim Han-sol (28, Seoul City Hall) and Ryu Seong-hyeon (21, Korea National Sport University), the medal candidates for the men's floor exercise at the 2024 Paris Olympics, are 7 years apart in school at Korea National Sport University.

Kim Han-sol will be stepping onto the Olympic stage for the third time after Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and Tokyo in 2020.

Ryu Seong-hyun, who came in fourth in the floor exercise at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, will also be competing in the Olympics for the second consecutive time.

After the Korean men's gymnastics team failed to qualify for the Olympic team event at the World Championships last year, Ryu Seong-hyun knocked on the door of Paris as an individual and earned the Olympic ticket by ranking first in the floor exercise in the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) World Cup Series ranking points. 토토사이트 순위

Ryu Seong-hyun, who made a firm impression on the FIG judges at the Tokyo Olympics, has maintained world-class skills for three years and is considered a strong medal candidate this time as well.

Kim Han-sol won the floor exercise at the 2018 Jakarta Palembang and 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games in succession.

The Korea Gymnastics Association judged that Kim Han-sol had a high chance of winning a medal and selected Kim Han-sol as the winner of the 1 spot allocated by FIG to the National Olympic Committee (NOC).

Kim Han-sol and Ryu Seong-hyeon competed in the Tokyo Olympics floor exercise final, where eight people competed.

At that time, Ryu Seong-hyeon performed the highest difficulty level 7.0 technique among the finalists, but received a 0.3 point deduction, and only received a performance score of 7.533 points.

He missed the bronze medal by 0.5 points and the gold medal by 0.7 points.

Kim Han-sol was at the bottom with both difficulty and performance scores.

Kim Han-sol and Ryu Sung-hyun raised their technical difficulty to 6.6 points ahead of the Paris Olympics.

Considering that the technical difficulty of the best athlete in this event is 6.8 points, there is no shortage of technical scores.

What is important is the condition and technical execution scores on the day of the finals.

If they make a mistake like in Tokyo and end up with a low score, they will lose their medals.

They need to minimize mistakes in their landing movements, where even a single wrong step can cost them 0.3 points.

Since even the slightest movement in the still motion deducts points, they need to perform accurately and maturely to get closer to winning.

Ryu Sung-hyun confidently declared his challenge for the gold medal, saying, “I regrettably came in fourth place at the Tokyo Olympics, but it was a good experience,” and “I have gained experience in many international competitions, and this time, I want to show a different side of myself than in Tokyo.

I will stand on top of the floor exercise podium.”

Veteran Kim Han-sol, who underwent surgery to remove a bone in his elbow that had grown at the end of last year and earned a ticket to the Olympics just six months later, declared, "I will now compete with my experience and definitely stand on the podium."

The first contender for a medal is Artem Dolgopiat (Israel), the Tokyo Olympic gold medalist and last year's World Championships winner.

Dolgopiat is a specialist in this discipline who rarely makes mistakes in his performances and earns high execution scores.

Harry Hepworth of the UK, who showed off the most difficult technique of 6.8 points in this year's World Cup series, is a rising star, while Milad Karimi (Kazakhstan), who finished fifth in the Tokyo Olympics and last year's World Championships bronze medalist, is a dark horse.