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The most exciting sports moment of 2023 has to be the final out at the World Baseball Classic when Shohei Ohtani struck out his Los Angeles Angels teammate and one of the best hitters in baseball, Mike Trout, to propel Japan as the world champions of baseball. It was one of those moments that only sports can produce, an impossible twist of fate that brought the two teammates together to face each other for the honor and glory of their respective nations as the eyes of the world bore into their every single frown, grimace, and, finally, transcendent joy.
South Korean soccer hero Park Ji-sung recently denied speculations that he would join the ruling People Power Party, saying that he would "appreciate it if such propositions did not take place in the future." "I never even imagined becoming a politician, and I don't even feel the slightest need to imagine such a thing. . I was shocked that such speculation even exists," the former Mancheste.