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By Don Hearn, Badzine Correspondent. Photos: BadmintonPhoto (archives)
It has been over 2 years since Ra Kyung Min retired from her positions as national team coach and Daekyo playing-coach. In February 2007, her retirement announcement coincided with news of her pregnancy. Now, Ra has two children - one aged 2 and the other just 8 months - and has been living in Canada, where her husband and former mixed doubles partner Kim Dong Moon is running the Kim Dong Moon International Badminton Academy and training some of Canada’s top doubles players.
According to the local {-屏-|-蔽-} Sports Chosun, the genesis of Ra’s comeback came in March this year when the Daekyo team paid a visit to the Calgary Winter Club to train at the Kim Dong Moon Academy. Daekyo Head Coach Sung Han Kook apparently sensed that having missed an Olympic gold was still bothering Ra and hinted that she should come back and try again.
“At first, I just sort of threw the idea out there but Ra Kyung Min’s motivation to return was much more intense than I expected,” Sung told Sports Chosun.
Ra Kyung Min had her biggest Olympic success early in her career. Having been one of the world’s top women’s singles players in her late teens, Ra switched to doubles and was paired up with Park Joo Bong upon his own comeback in late 1995. The two quickly won 5 big tournaments and qualified for the Atlanta Olympics, where they won the silver medal, losing in the final to Ra’s eventual husband, Kim Dong Moon.
Kim and Ra were paired together soon after Atlanta and in September of 1997, they returned to the U.S. to win the U.S. Open, which would be their first of an astounding 42 tournament victories together. But after winning the Asian Games, the Asian and World Championships, the Sudirman Cup, the All England and virtually all the major titles, Ra and Kim went into the Athens Olympics as overwhelming favourites, having won 14 straight titles, but lost in the quarter-finals. Kim bounced back to win his second Olympic gold in Athens, winning men’s doubles with Ha Tae Kwun, while Ra had to settle for adding a bronze with Lee Kyung Won to the silver she earned in Atlanta.
The two domestic events in the coming months will serve as a kind of test, Sports Chosun quoted Daekyo manager Seo Myung Won as saying, and after that time the decision will be made on whether she will be added to the national team. Ra, who is now 32, is slightly older than Park Joo Bong was when he began his comeback but, of course, she has also borne two children. Ra and Kim have not been completely dormant as players, however. The couple took on Canada’s national mixed doubles champions at an exhibition in the spring and won in two games. Time will tell now whether Ra will be able to take on the world’s best, probably with a younger partner. |
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