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[Tokyo Olympics] Mixed feelings as S. Korean shuttlers celebrate victory over teammates

Olympic GamesAug 2, 2021

TOKYO -- It was a match that nobody won but then everybody won. Two South Korean tandems met for bronze medal in the women's doubles badminton event at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. Kim So-yeong and...
[Tokyo Olympics] Once sputtering, S. Korean offense wakes up in time for baseball semifinals

Olympic GamesAug 2, 2021

YOKOHAMA, Japan, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- For the first four innings against Israel in the second-round game of the Tokyo Olympic baseball tournament Monday, South Korea was experiencing much the same prob...
[Tokyo Olympics] S. Korea wins bronze in badminton women's doubles

Olympic GamesAug 2, 2021

TOKYO -- Kim So-yeong and Kong Hee-yong of South Korea won the bronze medal in the women's doubles badminton event at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, thanks to a victory over their compatriots, Lee So-...
[Tokyo Olympics] Survey shows football is most popular Olympic sport among S. Korean viewers

Olympic GamesAug 2, 2021

Football was the most-watched sport midway through the Tokyo Olympics among South Korean TV viewers, data showed Monday. The group round match of the South Korean men's football team against Romania...
[Tokyo OIympics] S. Korea inches closer to women's handball quarterfinals after draw vs. Angola

Olympic GamesAug 2, 2021

TOKYO -- South Korea found itself on the verge of qualifying for the women's handball quarterfinals at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, following a nailbiting draw against Angola in the final group matc...
[Tokyo Olympics] S. Korea takes 3rd seed in group in women's volleyball after loss to Serbia

Olympic GamesAug 2, 2021

TOKYO -- South Korea have reached the quarterfinals of the Tokyo Olympic women's volleyball tournament as the third seed from Pool A, following a straight-set loss to Serbia in the final preliminary ...
[Tokyo Olympics] Moon congratulates gymnast on Olympic medal

Olympic GamesAug 2, 2021

President Moon Jae-in sent a congratulatory message Monday to a South Korean gymnast for winning a medal at the Tokyo Olympics. In a message for Yeo Seo-jeong, Moon noted that she won bronze in the ...
[Tokyo Olympics] Women's basketball team hopeful for better future after tight Olympic battles

Olympic GamesAug 2, 2021

TOKYO -- Where people saw three straight losses for the South Korean women's basketball team at the Tokyo Olympics, players and coaches saw hope. South Korea closed out its brief Olympic campaign wi...
[Tokyo Olympics] Baseball star wants to join other 2nd-generation athletes on podium

Olympic GamesAug 2, 2021

YOKOHAMA -- First, it was the daughter of a former baseball player winning a medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Then came the daughter of an ex-gymnast joining her father as an Olympic medalist. Now, one ...
[Tokyo Olympics] S. Korean high jumper Woo Sang-hyeok makes history in Tokyo

Olympic GamesAug 1, 2021

South Korean high jumper Woo Sang-hyeok made history at the Tokyo Olympics Sunday, setting a new national record and achieving the highest ranking in an Olympic track-and-field event for the country....
[Tokyo Olympics] Like father, like daughter: gymnast vaults to bronze 25 years after father's silver

Olympic GamesAug 1, 2021

TOKYO -- South Korean artistic gymnast Yeo Seo-jeong can proudly call herself an Olympic medalist, but the 19-year-old vaulter isn't even the first one in her family to claim that title. It was a qu...
[Tokyo Olympics] S. Koreans finish well off podium in men's golf

Olympic GamesAug 1, 2021

SAITAMA -- South Korean players Im Sung-jae and Kim Si-woo both ended well out of medal contention in the Tokyo Olympic men's golf tournament on Sunday. Im shot a bogey-free round of three-under 68 ...
[Tokyo Olympics] S. Korean golfers inspired by volleyball team's comeback win over Japan

Olympic GamesAug 1, 2021

SAITAMA, Japan -- If a quartet of South Korean LPGA stars needed any source of inspiration for the upcoming Olympic women's golf tournament in Japan, they found it from other athletes from the countr...
[Tokyo Olympics] S. Korean archery champions to donate 'Robin Hood' arrows, uniforms to Olympic Museum

Olympic GamesAug 1, 2021

TOKYO -- South Korean Olympic archery champions An San and Kim Je-deok will donate their "Robin Hood" arrows and autographed uniforms to the Olympic Museum in Switzerland, the sport's national federa...
[Tokyo Olympics] Moon congratulates women's sabre fencers on Olympic medal

Olympic GamesAug 1, 2021

President Moon Jae-in sent a congratulatory message to the women's sabre fencing team Sunday for winning a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The team of four -- Kim Ji-yeon, Yoon Ji-su Choi Soo-ye...