‘All in on PyeongChang’ Yuna Kim flies to Togo on 27th.[Osen] Hwang Min-Gook 2011-06-18"She says that she will do all that she can for PyeongChang, no matter how sick she is.We hope that PyeongChang’s third bid will be successful with all the effort that Yuna put into to support the bid." said Yuna Kim’s management, All That Sports (ATS).Kim was not present at the 2011 Korean Skating Federation’s workshop for the national team athletes that was held on the 17th.
ATS explained that Kim, a member of the national team, was not present at the workshop because she had received vaccinations in order to go to Togo on June 27.Kim will be attending the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) that will be held in Lome, Togo on June 27-28.The ANOCA assembly is the last international event before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) session that will be held in Durban, South Africa on July 6, where the winning city will be decided. ANOCA has a total of 18 votes.“Yuna has received several vaccinations, including one for yellow fever, and is in much pain.She can’t even hold her arm (where she received the shots) up due to the pain so she had to skip her usual training. But she is determined to go to Togo for PyeongChang,” said ATS.“After she arrives in Togo it is a very exhausting schedule. There is no direct flight to Durban so she will have to transfer at Nice, France, and also at Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She will have to stay a day in Dubai to transfer. We hope that PyeongChang’s third bid will be successful with all the effort that Yuna put into support the bid,” added ATS.PyeongChang, along with Munich, Germany and Annecy, France, is bidding for the 2018 Winter Olympics.The winning city will be decided by the votes of the IOC officials at the Durban IOC session. Kim will be presenting at the IOC session and will return to Korea on July 8.◆ Translation ⓒ abyss / FEVERSKATING
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