South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na will come home this weekend with the world championships initially scheduled for next week in Japan still in limbo, her agency here said Friday. In a statement, All That Sports said Kim will arrive home on Sunday to continue training and also to serve as an honorary ambassador for the 2018 Winter Olympics bid for PyeongChang, an east coast alpine town. Kim is...

An ice hockey team based in Gyeonggi Province announced that it is planning to hold a charity game to raise funds for disaster-ravaged Japan. Anyang Halla, the defending champions of the Asia Ice hockey League, were due to play Japanese side Tohoku Free Blades in a best-of-five championship final series in Japan last Friday, when the country was hit by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake. All five match...

(Yonhap News) Lee Si-young, a South Korean actress, isn't just a pretty face. She can now call herself a boxing champion. Lee took the national women's amateur boxing championship in the 48-kilogram division Thursday. At 28 years of age, she was the oldest competitor at the event, which was open to boxers from 17 to 34 years old. After dominating Sung So-mi, a high school freshman, in the fina...

Korea’s first Ironman ready for new challenge He is probably one of the fittest men in the world. Park Byung-Hoon, 40, is an Ironman athlete. An Ironman race is an extended version of triathlon sport. The athletes swims 3.8 kilometers, cycle 180 kilometers and then run a full marathon of 42.195 kilometers, without any break. As one can imagine, it is a very demanding sport, so not everyone can...

INDIAN WELLS, California (AP) ― Rafael Nadal survived his strongest challenge yet at the BNP Paribas Open, beating qualifier Somdev Devvarman 7-5, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals. The world’s top-ranked player dominated his first two matches, dropping just six games while winning in straight sets. But he was challenged from the start by Devvarman, the first Indian ever to reach the fourth round a...

The global governing body of gymnastics has opened disciplinary proceedings against a Chinese judge for altering scores to help a Chinese athlete share a gold medal with a South Korean gymnast at last year's Asian Games. The South Korean flag is projected on giant screens during the closing ceremony of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. The South Korean city of In...

Korean sports stars have pledged to support victims of Friday’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, joining the nationwide effort to assist the country’s closest neighbor. Former Major Leaguer Park Chan-ho, who now plays with the Orix Buffaloes of the Japanese Pacific League, donated 10 million yen ($124,000) to aid Japan. The 37-year-old veteran pitcher noted on the team’s website that he was dee...

PALM HARBOR, Florida (AP) ― Japan’s biggest golfing star Ryo Ishikawa wishes he could fly home to see his family and find ways to help a country devastated by an earthquake and tsunami, that now faces concerns over a nuclear meltdown. The 19-year-old realizes there is little he can do but try to play his best golf. Ishikawa is in the middle of a three-tournament stretch at the Transitions Champ...

Hernandez brace sends United into quarters; Inter also move on LONDON (AP) ― Holder Inter Milan staged a second-half comeback to oust Bayern Munich on away goals in a repeat of last season’s final and Manchester United advanced to the Champions League quarterfinals for the fifth consecutive season by beating Marseille 2-1 on Tuesday. Goran Pandev’s 88th-minute goal for Inter earned a 3-2 victor...

Cho Kwang-rae to test more young talent ahead of 2014 World Cup It’s been over six months since Cho Kwang-rae took over the national football team, but the manager said he is still not satisfied with the team’s performances so far. “The team is now only half-way to becoming my ideal team,” Cho said Tuesday at the KFA’s office in Seoul, while announcing his new squad members. Since he took the ...

LONDON (AP) _ London is preparing to mark the 500-day countdown to the 2012 Olympics with the launch of ticket sales for the first home games since 1948. With Tuesday marking exactly 500 days to go until the opening ceremony on July 27, 2012, organizers will open applications for the 6.6 million tickets on offer. The 2012 London Olympic Games logo (AP-Yonhap News) Demand is expected to be high...

KBL CROWN -- Players and officials from the Busan KT Sonicboom celebrate after securing the top spot in the Korean Basketball League with a 87-67 victory over the Wonju Dongbu Promy, in Wonju, Gangwon Province, Sunday. (Photo by Busan KT Sonicboom)

The 2011 World Figure Skating Championships, scheduled for March 21-27 in Tokyo, will be postponed following the massive earthquake in Japan last week, a news report claimed Monday. Kim Yu-na Organized by the International Skating Union (ISU), the world championships were to be held at Yoyogi Stadium in Tokyo. But citing an anonymous source, Kyodo News in Japan reported that the event will be p...