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Fencing-Resurgent South Korea Fencers Aim For Gold 

2016 Rio Olympics - Fencing - Classification - Women's Epee Team Placements - Carioca Arena 3 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 11/08/2016. Choi In-Jeong (KOR) of South Korea contends with Courtney Hurley (USA) of USA. REUTERS/Issei Kato 

TOKYO, June 28 (Reuters) - Olympic fencing has for some time been overwhelmed by Europe however the tide may change at the Tokyo Olympics with South Korea introducing a line-up of solid players who could make Asia famous.  메이저사이트

Albeit South Korea will pass up the group foil occasions, it will contend in each of the 10 different rivalries at the Olympics. 

Also, for certain solid players who have beaten ruling Olympic bosses, they might be well headed to their own gold decorations. 

Goodness Sang-uk beat Olympic gold medallist Szilagyi Aron to win gold at the Budapest World Cup in March in the men's saber singular occasion, and as of now sits on the world's rankings. 

Choi In-jeong turned into the boss of the ladies' epee at the Kazan Epee World Cup in March, beating French fencer Aliya Luty. The ladies' epee group additionally won a silver award at the opposition in the wake of losing just to Poland and winning against Italy. 

With two gold, one silver and three bronze decorations, the 2012 London Olympics end up being the defining moment for South Korea's fencing record. Just Italy beat South Korea that year in the fencing gold decoration and complete award counts. 

That achievement persisted to the 2016 Rio Olympics, where Park Sang-youthful mounted one of the incomparable Olympic rebounds to win the men's epee singular gold, winning a gold decoration by coming from 14-10 down and taking five successive focuses. South Korea won bronze award too that year. 

"We feel the heaviness of assumptions, however since the 2012 London Olympics, we've developed into a fencing force to be reckoned with," Yonhap news office cited Kim Jung-hwan, a 37-year-old veteran and gold medallist of 2012 as a component of the men's saber group, as saying in April. 

In any case, in the same way as other, the group's preparation routine has been hindered by the pandemic. 

Goodness tried positive for COVID-19 subsequent to winning gold at the Budapest World Cup, and needed to recover at an emergency clinic for a month prior to being delivered in April. 

Park said he was "disillusioned" about the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, given that he needed to hang tight one more year for the occasion when he was feeling that he was getting into structure. 

All things considered, the Koreans are playful about their possibilities in Tokyo.