PARIS: The South Korean Olympic sharpshooter who won silver in the women’s 10m air pistol blew up the internet on Wednesday, crowning the breakthrough style star of the Paris Games.
Kim Ye-ji, 31, wearing a black South Korean uniform zipped up to the neck, a baseball cap and wire-rimmed shooting glasses, was almost supernaturally calm in videos that showed her and a teammate locking up the top two marks. on Sunday in Paris.
After her win, a 27-second clip showing Kim in the same ultra-calm manner as she aims, fires her gun and checks her record score went viral.
The video, which appears to have been shared for the first time in a Reddit thread, actually shows Kim at the World Cup in Baku in May, not Paris.
But even though social media platform X flagged some posts for sharing the footage out of context, the video continued to circulate online alongside pictures of Kim from Paris.
Style magazine GQ quickly declared Kim the “coolest style star of this year’s games.” “The former Olympian took to the range at the Chateauroux Shooting Center looking like an ultra-modern sci-fi killer in sportswear,” he told GQ.
