Is Sharpshooter Kim Yeji the Biggest Badass of the Paris Olympics?

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is the feel-good hero of the 2024 Summer Games, then Kim Yeji might be the terrifyingly badass heroine. She’s the South Korean pistol shooter you’ve probably seen all over your timelines, and with good reason: the silver medalist is a stone-cold savage.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.(You may have also seen , which isn’t from the Olympics but still rocks.)Kim Yeji competed in the 10-meter air pistol event on Sunday, July 29, and pictures and footage of her quickly went viral for her unbothered demeanor, ridiculously cool glasses, and the fact that she was carrying a stuffed elephant that, , belongs to her daughter.

Like, just…just look!It’s like she knows we’re obsessed with her.To add adorableness to sci-fi, while Kim took home the silver, it was her teenage teammate, Oh Ye-Jin, who won the gold in the women’s 10-meter air pistol event (Oh even with her high score).

With a pink heart-shaped sight on her pistol. The duality of woman, inside you are two wolves, and they are both South Korean sharpshooters.While in Paris for the Games, the two athletes are sharing a room, and were so happy to be sharing the podium as well.“She is like my youngest sibling, and I always want to care for her and always be there for her.

So, when she won the gold medal, I was extra happy,” Kim after the event; she is 31, while Oh is 19. “I do not view her as my rival.