Freestyle Hero: Park Tae-hwan Autobiography
Author: Park Tae-hwan
Publisher: Joongang Books
312 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
What is the life of an Olympic gold medalist like? That is what the
nation¡¯s fastest swimmer tries to explain in his self-penned book.
He has experienced both the highs ¡ª gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics ¡ª
and the lows ¡ª disqualification in Athens four years earlier and even
worse, a no-medal showing at the 2009 World Championships. He catalogs
these events, starting from Athens in 2004 to London this year.
While any Korean vaguely interested in Park would know all these facts
already, the 23-year-old¡¯s take shocks with its candor. He talks about
the hours following the disqualification scare after the preliminary
400-meter freestyle race in London and how he cried in the post-race
press conference. He wanted to pour his heart out but his eyes did the
talking for him.
None of the confessions or the events feels especially monumental,
however; the swimming champion seems to have transcended them all. His
skirmish with his parents over choice of college, especially, lacks
drama. That¡¯s it, a reader may be forced to ask.
But that uncomplicated, almost naive character, is probably why the
nation fell in love with him in the first place.
--KWAAK JE-YUP
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