Indian Archery Informs Coach Baek Ung-ki In An Insulting

It was belatedly known that Baek Woong-ki (63), the coach of the Indian national archery team, received an absurd notification from the Indian Archery Association (AAI) to "pack up and return home" as soon as he arrived in Paris, France for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

According to local media including the Indian Express on Tuesday (local time), Baek arrived in Paris but was not issued an "AD (Accreditation) card. The AD card is an identification card for entry to the Olympic Stadium and the Olympic Village. Without the card, access to Olympic facilities will be strictly controlled.

The Indian Olympic Committee (IOA) has not even asked head coach Baek to issue an AD card to the effect that he no longer needs to serve as the head coach of the archery team. At the same time, it notified him to take a flight ticket to return to India, which is reserved for the afternoon of the 20th.

While waiting at a hotel in Paris after training in Marseille, Baek reportedly expressed anger, saying, "I was excluded from the role of coach at an important time. It was humiliating and insulting."

"The IOA's sloppy and rash administration has excluded foreign coaches," Baek told local media. "Even if we ask them to extend the contract when it expires on October 30, they will not do it." Baek reportedly checked flights to Korea after returning to India.

Local media noted that AAI had a physical therapist join the Indian national team just one day after Baek's exclusion.

Four AD cards were issued to coaches and support staff of the Indian archery team. However, Baek was placed not first but fifth, which resulted in him not being able to stay in Paris.

Local media reported that the physical therapist in question was able to join the team instead of Baek because he was close to the association's secretary general. However, the association put athletes' comfort first, the association said. The association did not intervene at all.

Baek has won four gold medals and one silver medal in Korea as coach of the women's team at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the women's team at the 2012 London Olympics.

Afterwards, he agreed to a proposal to head the Indian archery team to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics in India, and was supposed to head the Indian national team with 20 men and women for two years from 2022 to the end of August 2024, after the Paris Olympics.

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