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PyeongChang looks to deliver Winter Olympics for Asia
DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) ― PyeongChang hopes that at the third time of asking it will prevail here on Wednesday and win the right to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and deliver Asia only its third ever Games.The Koreans have twice finished runners-up ― to Vancouver for 2010 and Sochi for 2014 ― and here they must wait once again to see if at last they have convinced the electorate of International
July 5, 2011
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Tension grows ahead of IOC vote
Koreans await midnight decision on PyeongChang’s Olympic bidKim Hyun-chul, a 32-year-old office worker in Seoul, plans to stay up until midnight Wednesday to find out whether PyeongChang succeeds in its third attempt to host the Winter Olympics. “I hope with all my heart that the city is selected this time around,” he said. “People worked really hard,” he added. The fate of PyeongChang’s bid for t
July 5, 2011
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SBS extends Olympic broadcasting rights to 2024
SBS, the country’s third-largest broadcaster, has secured exclusive broadcast rights for the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics and the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee announced on Monday.The agreement is the first broadcast deal with the IOC that goes through 2024, the Olympic governing body said in a statement.SBS has acquired the broadcast rights across all media p
July 5, 2011
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Defining a new dream
Aussie coach aims to take Korean wheelchair hoops to LondonHe knows exactly where his heart is, and has a clear vision of what he’d like for the future. Australian basketball coach Mark Walker says his current goal is to take the Korean wheelchair basketball team to the London 2012 Paralympics. Yet his ambition appears impossible, considering the current level of the Korean national team: Korea ha
July 5, 2011
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PyeongChang holds spirited press conference ahead of vote on Olympic host
DURBAN, South Africa (Yonhap) -- Bid officials of PyeongChang, a South Korean candidate for the 2018 Winter Olympics,held a lively and spirited press conference here Monday, handling questions with aplomb with an International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote on the host fast approaching.In the final run-up to the IOC vote scheduled for Wednesday, PyeongChang kept hammering home its message of bringin
July 5, 2011
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Korea secures four tickets in taekwondo
Korea’s Cha Dong-min won a gold medal in a world qualifying competition Sunday to win a place in the 2012 London Olympics.On the final day of the World Taekwondo Federation qualification tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Korean defeated Russia’s Gadzhi Umarov 6-1 for the gold medal in the men’s over-80 kg final. Cha was the fourth Korean taekwondo athlete to secure a berth in the London Olympics
July 4, 2011
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PyeongChang cautiously optimistic
Korean city aims to bring Winter Olympics to Asia for third timeDURBAN, South Africa (Yonhap News) ― With the vote here on the 2018 Winter Olympics host just two days away, Pyeong-Chang, the South Korean candidate, in its last-minute pitch has been stressing its main point ― that Asia is due for a Winter Games.The International Olympic Committee is set to select the Olympic host on Wednesday, with
July 4, 2011
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PyeongChang, Munich lead chase
Korean city anticipating better luck third time aroundLONDON (AP) ― Send the Winter Olympics to a new frontier in Asia, or go back to the roots of winter sports in the heart of Europe?That sums up the choice facing the International Olympic Committee when it selects the host city for the 2018 Games.By all accounts, the South Korean bid from PyeongChang remains the one to beat in the three-city rac
July 3, 2011
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Korea wins 2 taekwondo spots for London 2012
Korea’s Kim Mi-kyung (right) competes against Farida Azizova of Azerbaijan in the women’s under-67 kg final of the WTF World Qualification Tournament for the 2012 London Olympics in Baku, Azerbaijan on Thursday. (WTF)South Korea secured two spots in taekwondo for the 2012 London Olympics on the opening day of the World Taekwondo Federation qualification tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday.In
July 1, 2011
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Lockout set as midnight strikes for NBA
NEW YORK (AFP) ― NBA team owners ordered a lockout of players to commerce one minute after midnight on Friday as last-ditch talks failed, setting up a shutdown that threatens the 2011-2012 season.The first NBA work stoppage since the 1998-1999 season was slashed to 50 games will halt trades, free agent signings and contract talks. Players, who would not be paid, also would be barred from using tea
July 1, 2011
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Sharapova poised to reclaim Wimbledon crown
LONDON (AFP) ― Maria Sharapova will attempt to complete her long journey back from the wilderness at Wimbledon on Saturday when she takes on Czech eighth seed Petra Kvitova for the women’s singles crown.The 24-year-old Russian fifth seed is the overwhelming favorite to reclaim the title that she won for the first time in 2004, when as a fresh-faced teenager she took the All England Club by storm.S
July 1, 2011
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Tiger Woods to pitch heat rub in Japan
NAGOYA (AP) ― Tiger Woods has signed a three-year deal to promote a Japanese pain reliever, his first endorsement since he was caught in a sex scandal toward the end of 2009.The deal with Kowa Company Ltd. is geared only toward the market in Japan. Woods already has filmed commercials for “Vantelin Kowa,” a heat rub used to relieve muscle and joint pain. The commercial is to be shown in Japan star
June 30, 2011
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Top golfers clash in Korea-Japan matches
Top golfers from Korea and Japan will face each other at the Korea-Japan Million Yard Cup, which tees off on Friday at Jeongsan Golf Club, in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province.The three-day competition is the third occasion in which Korea’s top male golfers team up to play against Japan. In its inaugural competition in 2004, Korea beat Japan, but in their last clash in 2010, they lost to the Japan
June 30, 2011
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‘Football teams implicated in match fixing will be expelled’
Local professional football teams whose players are implicated in match-fixing in the future will face expulsion from their league, a senior sports official said Thursday.“If players in (the first-division) K-League are caught trying to throw matches from this July and on, their teams will be forced out of the league,” said Park Sun-kyoo, vice minister of culture, sports and tourism. “We will also
June 30, 2011
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Choi comes clean on match fixing
A former national football team forward became the latest to turn himself in to top football authorities for ties to match fixing schemes, the nation’s first-division league announced Wednesday.Choi Sung-kuk, currently with the Suwon Samsung Bluewings, came clean on Tuesday and the case is now in the hands of prosecutors, an official with K-League said.Choi is the second known case to report himse
June 29, 2011
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Choo has surgery, will miss 8-10 weeks
CLEVELAND (AP) ― Indians outfielder Choo Shin-soo could miss up to two and a half months after having surgery on his broken left thumb.Choo’s thumb was broken Friday night in San Francisco when he was struck while batting in the fourth inning by Giants left-hander Jonathan Sanchez. Choo’s finger was also cut and required stitches.On Tuesday, Choo’s thumb was repaired at the Cleveland Clinic by han
June 29, 2011
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‘North Koreans played despite lightning strike’
DRESDEN, Germany (AFP) ― North Korea’s women’s football coach Kim Kwang-min claimed several players had played in the opening 2-0 World Cup loss to two-time champions United States on Tuesday still suffering from the effects of being struck by lightning at a pre-tournament training camp.“Frankly speaking, when we were having training and test matches before we left for this tournament, five of the
June 29, 2011
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NCsoft gets go-ahead to launch new baseball team
The plan to launch a new professional baseball team in South Korea has been boosted after the Changwon City Council passed a bill Tuesday to build a new baseball stadium in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province.NCsoft, an online game developer, signed a memorandum of understanding with Changwon City at the end of 2010 to set up a new professional baseball team in Changwon, some 400 kilometers southe
June 29, 2011
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PyeongChang bid makes final push
Just one week before the International Olympic Committee’s selection of the host of the 2018 Winter Games, PyeongChang successfully held its final presentation on Tuesday before African officials in Togo, according to the PyeongChang 2018 Bid Committee. During a 20-minute presentation, PyeongChang, led by bid committee chairman Cho Yang-ho, highlighted how its bid would help National Olympic Commi
June 29, 2011
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China holds Communist Olympics
To mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the country has held the Communist Olympics in Qingyang, Gansu Province between June 26 and 28, said the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper.Each team wore uniforms and performed in a series of dramatic events including grenade chucking, model explosive carrying and "shoulder pole carrying." A race named “Storming the blockhouse”
June 29, 2011