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The "Rivals Forever" are to meet again this year. The two giants of the private university world, Korea and Yonsei Universities will hold the 2004 Regular Yonsei-Korea University Games on Sept. 17-18 under the auspices of Korea University. The showdown of the two schools, which has continued since the 1930s during the Japanese colonial period, traditionally includes five sports - baseball, basketball, ice hockey, rugby and soccer.
The two schools, which failed to establish supremacy in last year's games that ended in two wins, two loses, and a draw, are balanced in strength this year as well. The sports chiefs of both schools, Lee Man-woo, a business administration professor of Korea University, and Lee Sung-chul, a physical education professor at Yonsei University expressed their firm resolution as follows:
¡ã Yonsei University professor Lee Sung-chul
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Yonsei University professor Lee Sung-chul and the university¡¯s cheerleader team
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¡°We will do our best without yearning only for the victory, although I would be much more delighted if our team won, of course.¡±
¡°I will conduct the games aiming at doing one¡¯s best rather than sticking only to the game results. Rather than looking forward to grasp victory, I will make the festival one that can unite all Yonsei people together,¡± said Yonsei University professor Lee Sung-chul. Being devoted to the true character of the competition that can promote friendly relations between the two schools, he intended to emphasize the amateur spirit that stresses how you play the game rather than the result.
¡°It is more important to run the sports competitions without having any injured athletes and guide athletes to do their utmost rather than sticking to the issues of victory and defeat. It is my utmost delight to have all the alumni, students, and faculty experience unity at the Yonsei-Korea Games. In particular, if the alumni could feel the nostalgia of the past by watching their juniors¡¯ competition, it would be a success from my viewpoint,¡± added Lee.
As the showdown always singles out a winner and a loser between the two rivals, however, he did not cover up the internal eagerness of the school for victory.
¡°As a matter of course, it would add luster to what was already brilliant if we could grasp victory while accomplishing these objectives,¡± said Lee, adding, ¡°As Yonsei University is currently placed in a difficult situation in respect of external affairs, victory in the Korea-Yonsei Games wouls be a great help to all Yonsei people.¡±
¡ã Korea Univesity professor Lee Mahn-woo
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Korea University professor Lee Mahn-woo and the university¡¯s cheerleader team
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¡°May 5, 2005 is the 100th anniversary of our school. We will surely gain victory in these Yonsei-Korea Games in the sense of looking over the past.¡±
The face of Lee Man-woo, the chief of the athletics association of Korea University who heads the sports team of the Tigers of Anam, the nickname of Korea University, was full of confidence. With steady preparation, and superior strength over the Yonsei, he raised his voice, saying ¡°I have complete faith in our coming victory.¡±
As a matter of fact, their preparation was quite unusual. Even the ice hockey and rugby teams were sent to the Czech Republic and Australia respectively for their overseas training. Each of them could learn advanced techniques for four weeks.
Adding on this, the school arranged on Sept. 8 a special lecture on ¡°strategies for victory,¡± for all the school's athletes. Quoting lessons from Sun Tzu's the Art of War, business administration professor Kim Eon-su stepped up to convey the ¡°way to win¡±. ¡°The athlete¡¯s impressions and feelings gotten through the lecture would be very helpful in their actual games,¡± added Kim.
Professor Lee, who has lodged together with the athletes for three weeks up to now, stated, ¡°The atmosphere of our school is already full of the delight of victory. We will share this pleasure with our schoolmates.¡±
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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