Olympic bobsleigh medalist Won Yun-jong among 11 candidates for IOC Athletes' Commission election

Korean Olympic bobsleigh medalist Won Yun-jong will be among 11 candidates running for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission election next year. The IOC on Friday unveiled the final list of candidates for the election, which will take place during the Feb. 6-22 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Approved Thursday by the IOC Executive Board, the list features eight men and three women from five different sports and 11 countries. Won, who piloted South Korea to the silver medal in the men's four-man bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics, was chosen as the South Korean candidate for the election, ahead of figure skater Cha Jun-hwan, in February. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) then submitted Won's application to the IOC in March, and Won made the cut. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes, from two different sports, will replace outgoing Emma Terho and Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, whose eight-year terms will end next year. According to the IOC, the election will begin on Jan. 30, when the athletes' villages will offWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times