김연아의 평창 동계올림픽 프리젠테이션

지난달에 나도 영어 프르젠테이션을 발표할 일이있어서 해봤는데 참 안되던데...
한국말로도 잘못하는데... 김연아 참 잘한다.

Thank you everyone , thank you all, Members of IOC, good afternoon.

It’s hard to believe it’s only been seven weeks since we met in Lausanne. Since the time, I’ve been training harder for today than for most of my competitions. And just like in Lausanne, I’m still a little bit nervous. After all, to be part of this process is very humbling for someone my age. It is humbling because you are making history today, I get to be a small part of it. I remember feeling the same way when I competed in Vancouver. Ten years ago when Pyeongchang began the dream to host winter games, I was a young girl beginning my own Olympic dream in an ice rink in Seoul. At the time, I was fortunate to choose a winter sport that had good training facilities and coaches in Korea but as you know many Korean winter athletes travel half way around the world just to train for their Olympic dreams but now my dream is to share the opportunities I had with other athletes in new regions and Pyeongchang 2018 can help achieve that. Our government created the “Drive the Dream” project to fund winter sports facilities and training for athletes. Thanks to this program Korea won the total 14 medals in Vancouver including mine. And we placed 7th in over medals one

 

out of 82 countries to the even better in the future, we need the new venues that Pyeongchang 2018 will bring but new horizons will leave a legacy there’s perhaps even more important than venues I’m talking about human legacy I’m an example of a living legacy of our government’s efforts to improve the standard of Korean winter sport. And I know now perhaps more than I ever imagined what a victory will mean. You’ll mean the possibility for success and achievement that’s what young people everywhere in the world need and deserve.

And lastly I’d like to add a personal note to you today. It is rare for the olympion to actually get to say thank you to all IOC members at one time, so please me to say thank you dear IOC members for providing someone like me the opportunity to achieve my dreams and to inspire others. Thank you.