Kim Yeji, a South Korean pistol shooter, collapsed during a press conference in her home country.

The Olympic silver medalist, who went viral for her custom shooting glasses, was carried on a stretcher and hospitalized.

Le Huffington Post obtained footage of Yeji being carried on a stretcher and placed in an ambulance.

South Korean Olympic silver medallist pistol shooter Kim Ye-ji, whose cool demeanour and appearance when competing at the Paris Games made her a social media sensation, collapsed at a news conference on Friday, apparently due to stress and exhaustion.

Kim was speaking at the event in Imsil, the county that she represented for seven years in the southern part of South Korea, when she collapsed, a county official said by telephone. Kim regained consciousness and was taken to hospital, he said.

The 31-year-old did not receive CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) as some media reported, the official said.

Yeji captured the silver medal in the women's air pistol final at the Paris Olympics.

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