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This challenge is special for the wheelchair basketball team participating in the Paralympic Games for the first time in 21 years. I am determined to dedicate the victory to my mentor, coach Han Sa-hyun, who passed away last year.
Correspondent Lee Jeong-chan.
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Han Sa-hyun, a former Sydney Paralympic athlete, is the 'legend of Korean wheelchair basketball'.
Shortly after retirement, he led the wheelchair even in the cold of minus 35 degrees,
[Han Sa-hyun / former wheelchair basketball team coach: A little more. let's go to the end Not long left.] After
climbing to the top of the Rocky Mountains in 3 days and 2 nights, he ignited the spirit of challenge, and after taking the baton of the national team in 2010, he led the leap in Korean wheelchair basketball with a gold medal at the Incheon Asian Games.
[Han Sa-hyun (at the time of 2014): We just can’t do dunk shots, and all the techniques are out. The fight between wheelchairs is quite worth seeing.] I
was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2018, but I did not even express it.
[Tribologists / wheelchair basketball captain: sick you can deureonaemyeon tell the players atmosphere cheojil and why good or how bad bishop condition Not knowing most players]
And after won the Paralympic chuljeongwon only 21 years, the snow at the end of September last year, battled I felt it.
The disciples clenched their fists in order to reach the first 'final 4' goal set by coach Han.
[Cho Seung-hyun / Wheelchair basketball team captain: Since 2010, our goal is to reach the
semifinals, so we
believe that the coach will help us from heaven.]
[Koh Gwang-yeop Ko / Wheelchair basketball team coach: If there was an Olympics last year, there might have been a coach. ,
I am doing my best because of that goal of coach Han.] The
national team that finished their first training in Tokyo a while ago will start the group stage on the 25th, the day after the opening ceremony.
We challenge the new history of Korean wheelchair basketball with the dream of a teacher who left for heaven in our hearts.
(Video coverage: Kim Won-bae, Video editing: Oh Young-taek)