It's New Year and it seems that we will be seeing our favourite idols compete in sports. 200 and more idol stars is set to join in MBC’s 2014 New Year’s special “Idol Athletic Championships.”
On January 9, MBC stated, “The recording of ‘Idol Athletic Championships’ will be held on January 13 at the Seoul Jamsil Indoor Stadium and the Students’ Gymnasium.” The network also mentioned that one of the events will be a futsal (an indoor variation of soccer played with five players on each team) tournament and has released the names of the idol stars that will be participating in this event.
The participants of the futsal tournament are:
SHINee: Minho
Infinite: Woohyun, Hoya
EXO: Luhan, Xiumin
BEAST: Yoon Doo Joon, Lee Ki Kwang, Yang Yoseub
Teen Top: Ricky
2AM: Im Seulong
Tasty: Soryong
Surprise: Gong Myung
Block B: UKwon
B1A4: Baro
BTS: Jimin
Lunafly: Sam
B.A.P: Bang Yong Gu, Young Jae
BTOB: Seo Eun Kwang, Min Hyuk
ZE:A: Tae Hyun, Dong Joon
VIXX: Ravi
M.I.B: 5Zic, Kangnam
AJAX: Hyo Jun
Boys Republic: Suwoong
Goo Ja Myung
Noh Ji Hoon
Eric Nam
Sean Lee
K-Hunter
Additionally to the first futsal tournament, another new sport has been added. Archery, which has been made as a team sport, will be held as an individual event.
The “2014 Idol Athletic Championships” will be broadcasted at the end of January very much in time for Lunar New Year.