Woo Sang-hyeok, Olympic Mock Test in Monaco on the 13th

Woo Sang-hyeok, Olympic Mock Test in Monaco on the 13th… Tamberi Suffers Thigh Injury

Tamberi, who holds the best record of 2m37 this season, will not participate in Monaco Diamond League.

Smile Jumper' Woo Sang-hyeok (28, Yongin City Hall) will take his final mock test in preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the Monaco Diamond League.

The anticipated first match of the season against Gianmarco Tamberi (32, Italy) was canceled due to Tamberi's injury.

Woo Sang-hyeok, who was training in the Czech Republic, moved to Monaco on the 11th (Korean time).

Woo Sang-hyeok will compete in the 2024 World Athletics Diamond League Men's High Jump competition starting at 3:30 AM on the 13th.

This competition initially attracted attention because three of the active Big 4 men's high jumpers, excluding Mutaz Essa Barsim (Qatar), were set to compete. 온라인카지노사이트

Woo Sang-hyeok and Jervon Harrison (USA) will compete in the Monaco tournament as scheduled.

However, Tamberg is expected to miss out due to a thigh injury.

Tamberg was scheduled to compete in the Continental Tour held in Székesfehervar, Hungary on the 10th.

Tamberg's plan was to play matches in Hungary and Monaco three days apart, similar to the Paris Olympics preliminaries and finals.

Tamberg actually warmed up at the Székesfehervar Stadium on the day of the match.

However, right before the match, Tamberg felt pain in his thigh and withdrew from the competition.

Tamberi wrote on his social network service (SNS) on the 11th, "I underwent a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test and fortunately avoided muscle damage, but minor damage to the myofascial membrane (the membrane surrounding the muscle) was found."

He added, "I will need intensive treatment for a week.

It will be difficult for me to compete in the Monaco games."

He confessed, "I cried three times in 24 hours.

It's probably because of the tension and fear.

I'm still lying in bed with a thousand doubts and fears."

He added, "No athlete has won the Olympic men's high jump more than twice.

I will challenge myself to go that route.

There has been no easy path in my history anyway."

Tamberg has competed only once this year, winning the men's high jump final at the 2024 European Championships in Rome, Italy, on June 12, clearing 2.37m, which is the world's best this season.

Tamberg, who holds a personal best of 2.39m, has also been a frequent winner at major competitions.

In 2021, he shared first place with Barsim (2.37m) at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and won the 2023 Budapest World Championships (2.36m) and the 2016 Oregon World Indoor Championships (2.36m).

He has won the Diamond League Finals twice, in 2021 and 2022 (both in 2.34m).

Tamberi, who had been adjusting his number of games this year in hopes of winning a second consecutive Olympic gold medal, was hit by an injury a month before the men's high jump final at the Paris Olympics (August 11, Korean time).

Tambury will not be participating, but Woo Sang-hyeok has many opponents to keep an eye on.

All eight of the jumpers participating in the Monaco competition, including Woo Sang-hyeok, are top-class jumpers who have secured their places in the Paris Olympics.

For Harrison (personal best 2m36, season best 2m34), who finished fourth in the US national team trials, this Monaco Diamond League is a chance to regain his honor.

Also notable are 2024 World Indoor Championships gold medalist Hamish Kerr (New Zealand), US national team trials top-ranked Shelby McEwan, and UR Reese (Australia), who surpassed Woo Sang-hyeok and won the Seiko Grand Prix in May by clearing 2m30.

Woo Sang-hyuk, who holds personal bests of 2m36 indoors and 2m35 outdoor, has a personal best of 2m33 (tied for 4th) this season.

Woo Sang-hyuk gradually built up his 'feel for real competition' by focusing on physical and muscle training.

His second place (2m27) at the Tokyo Seiko Grand Prix on May 19 and fourth place (2m22) at the Taiwan Open on June 1 were also due to his 'lack of feel for real competition'.

Woo Sang-hyuk explained, "I competed in the Tokyo and Taiwan competitions with a heavy body.

I went into the two competitions thinking that if I could clear 2m30 with a heavy body, I could clear 2m37 with a lighter body, but my records did not go as well as I expected." "Still, the training process was very good and I didn't get sick, so I wasn't disappointed with the results of the two competitions.

In the end, what's important is the results at the Paris Olympics."

With less than a month left until the Paris Olympics men's high jump finals, he is also planning to be greedy for 'records' in the Monaco Diamond League.

He is also greedy for victory as he will be wearing the armband of the 2023 Diamond League Final Champion (2m35).

After the Monaco Diamond League ends, Woo Sang-hyeok will move to Paris to begin local adaptation training in preparation for the Olympics.