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The first Summer Olympic Games to take place in South America only has little over three months left.
That means athletes participating in the global sporting event only has one hundred days to prepare for 'the' moment.
And marking one hundred days until the Olympics, scheduled to kick off in August 5th through the 21st,… major cities, including Seoul, turned on the colors representing the host country Brazil on their most represestative landmarks.
Shin Se-min reports.
The countdown begins,… only one hundred days before the Rio 2016 Olympics,… and major cities around the world including London, New York, Athens, and Tokyo are lit in green and yellow..
And one of Korea's milestone landmarks, Seoul's N Tower, was also dressed in the colors representing the country hosting the global event.
This year's Rio Olympic is the largest of its kind,… with the Olympic organizers expected to host some 10,500 athletes from 207 countries, where they will take part in 42 sporting events with 306 gold medals at stake.
With just one hundred days left until the 31st world sporting competition,… athletes in South Korea are in full gears to finish in top 10.
Vowing to perform to their fullest,… the head of the Korean Olympic Committee, Kim Jung-haeng said the national athletes would do their best at the world competition.
Some of the most popular events where Korean athletes are expected to dominate in the Olympics include archery, wrestling, shooting, judo, badminton and fencing.
And according to Dutch sports data analysis firm's projection, Gracenote,… team Korea is likely to do just that,… finishing among the top ten,… winning 12 golds, five silver and eleven bronze.
Team Korea has a record of making it to the top 10 list consecutively since the Athens Olympic 2004 until the most recent London Summer Olympics in 2012 where the team came in fifth with 13 golds.
In particular, Korea has been leading the discipline of archery with 19 golds in the quadrennial competition.
Shin Se-min, Arirang News.
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