Thanh Nien newspaper reported that although shooting expert Park Chung-gun’s contract with the Sports Department expired on August 31, he has not received any offer to extend the contract. Mr. Park affirmed that the sports industry leaders did not exchange information, nor did they say thank you or goodbye after the two sides ended their cooperation. Therefore, he chose to return home to rest.
It is known that the Department of Sports and Physical Training has just sent an official dispatch requesting to extend the contract with shooting expert Park Chung-gun. Specifically, although the Hanoi National Sports Training Center and the Vietnam Shooting Federation both requested not to renew the contract with Mr. Park, the Department of Sports and Physical Training has a different opinion.
Expert Park Chung-gun
With the achievement of the women's pistol team at the Olympics, it is considered to have succeeded half of the plan. To stabilize the achievements of the women's pistol team, especially athlete Trinh Thu Vinh, it is proposed to continue hiring expert Park Chung-gun in the next phase:
- 2024: from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024
- Year 2025: from January 3, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Training content includes: female pistol (currently there are 5 athletes: Trinh Thu Vinh, Nguyen Thuy Trang, Trieu Thi Hoa Hong, Nguyen Thi Huong, Tran Thi Xuan Huong, can be supplemented or replaced during training as suggested by experts.
The sports industry also aims to assign tasks to experts with the goal of winning 3 gold medals at the 33rd SEA Games (2025), 2 gold medals at the 20th ASIAD (2026) and having 2 spots to attend and win 1 gold medal at the 2028 Olympics.
The Department of Sports and Physical Training clearly stated that the completion of each specific phase target as above is the basis for evaluating the completion of the task of the expert in shooting annually to be able to continue to the next phase or not. Shooting is a key sport, expected to achieve gold medals.
Mr. Park Chung-gun is one of the foreign experts who has been with Vietnamese sports the longest. The Korean expert has been with the shooting team for a decade, leaving his mark on the 2 Olympic medals at Rio 2016 (1 gold, 1 silver) of shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh, and the gold medal at the 19th Asian Games of Pham Quang Huy in Hangzhou, China.
Letter from the Department of Sports and Physical Training to Mr. Park Chung-gun
Or most recently, shooter Trinh Thu Vinh, under his coaching, reached the top 4 in the women's 10m air pistol event and the finals in the women's 25m air pistol event. Thu Vinh is one of the very few shooters at the Olympics to reach the finals of both these difficult events. She also surpassed many good shooters from Korea and China thanks to her convincing performance, only lacking a bit of luck to touch the medal.
On the evening of September 12, expert Park Chung-gun (currently in his home country of South Korea) received a letter from the Sports Administration. He has not commented on the content of this letter.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/moi-thay-han-quoc-cua-hoang-xuan-vinh-duoc-tai-ky-bao-lau-muc-tieu-cu-the-la-gi-185240912211612546.htm
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