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Jang Se-yun wanted to be noticed. Now she wants more than Asian Games silver
Jang Se-yun wanted people to know her name. But the 23-year-old judoka arrived at her first Asian Games knowing her better-known teammates would draw most of the attention. She understood why, but being overlooked still hurt. “I understood why I got less attention. I hadn’t competed at the Olympics, and this was my first Asian Games,” Jang told reporters after winning a silver medal in the women’s -52-kilogram judo event on Wednesday. It was South Korea’s first judo medal of the Asian Games. “Bu
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Kang Yeon-seo wins women's individual bronze in compound archery
Kang Yeon-seo won bronze in the women's individual event in compound archery at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday for her second medal of the competition. Kang, 14, defeated fellow South Korean Park Jung-yoon in the bronze medal match by 145-143 at Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square in Okazaki, some 50 kilometers southeast of the main host city, Nagoya. Kang and Park together won the women's team bronze Wednesday. In the individual compound event, archers each take 15 arrows, thre
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Phil Mickelson entered addiction treatment center: reports
American golf star Phil Mickelson voluntarily entered an addiction treatment center for mental health issues and has since been discharged, a US entertainment and sports outlet reported. TMZ Sports reported Wednesday that Mickelson checked himself into a treatment facility because of mental health concerns, received treatment and has now left the center. Mickelson, a six-time major champion who formed one of golf‘s biggest rivalries with Tiger Woods, stopped competing in April and took a break b
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Kim Ha-seong draws walk, scores run as Braves fall in extra innings
Kim Ha-seong drew a walk and scored a run in the MLB postseason, but the Atlanta Braves suffered a comeback loss. Kim went 0-for-1 with one walk and one run scored against the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 2 of the best-of-three National League Wild Card Series on Wednesday at Truist Park in Atlanta. Starting at shortstop and batting ninth, Kim drew a leadoff walk in the bottom of the third inning and was retired on a foul pop to the catcher in the fifth. With the score tied 1-1 in the bottom of
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Ronaldo quits Portugal camp
Cristiano Ronaldo walked out on Portugal's training camp Wednesday, hours after coach Jorge Jesus said the star forward would not start against Denmark in the Nations League on Thursday. The 41-year-old Ronaldo said that "in time" he would "tell the Portuguese people the truth about the reasons" behind his departure. "Following the national team coach's news conference, and after a conversation with the president of the Portuguese football federation, I decided to leave the national team's train
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Man City fans devastated, rival fans call for relegation
MANCHESTER, England (AFP) -- Manchester City fans said Wednesday they were "devastated" by the verdict on the soccer club's financial breaches, while supporters of rival clubs called for City's relegation from the Premier League. An independent commission found the Abu Dhabi-backed club arranged "sham" contracts with a number of commercial partners to artificially inflate its revenues and reduce costs by more than $1.2 billion between 2009 and 2018. In that time, City won the Premier League titl
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Swiss withdraws support for FIFA chief Infantino
GENEVA (AFP) -- The Swiss Football Association, or SFV, announced Wednesday that it was withdrawing its support for incumbent Gianni Infantino in next year's FIFA presidential election. Several leading European national associations have pulled their support for Infantino after he caused uproar in July with proposals to create a commercial subsidiary to run FIFA's biggest events, such as the World Cup and Club World Cup. The SFV's decision carries weight because Infantino is Swiss, and both FIFA
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Judo Olympic medalists go for 1st Asian Games titles; taekwondo competition to begin
A pair of Olympic medalists in judo will each chase their first Asian Games gold medals on Thursday. Lee Joon-hwan will compete in the men's -81 kilograms, and Huh Mimi will do so in the women's -57kg on Day 2 of judo at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games at Aichi International Arena in Nagoya. Lee is the 2024 Olympic bronze medalist in his weight class, while Huh, a Japanese native and a descendant of a Korean independence fighter, got silver in her division at the same Olympics. Lee took silver at t
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S. Korea reach men's football final
South Korea rallied past China 2-1 to move on to the gold medal in men's football at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday. Lee Young-jun and Bae Jun-ho scored a goal apiece for the under-23 men's national team in the semifinals at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, some 140 kilometers west of the main host city Nagoya, as South Korea moved within a victory of winning their fourth straight gold medal. In Saturday's gold medal match, South Korea will face either Japan or Uzbekistan, with those two teams
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S. Korea's Jang Se-yun wins silver in women's judo at Asian Games
South Korea's Jang Se-yun won the silver medal in the women's -52-kilogram judo event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday, grabbing the country's first judo medal at the Games. Jang lost to Sita Kadamboeva of Uzbekistan by hansoku-make, or disqualification, in the event's final at Aichi International Arena in Nagoya, central Japan. It is South Korea's first judo medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. Xu Aoyu of China and Kokoro Fujishiro shared the bronze medals. Following two ippon (fu
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Sport climber Lee Do-hyun grabs silver in men's boulder
Sport climber Lee Do-hyun seized silver in the men's boulder event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday for South Korea's first medal from the sport here. Lee scored 49.7 points to finish second behind the Japanese star Sorato Anraku, who earned 74.5 point at Portmesse Nagoya Exhibition Hall in Nagoya. Tomoa Narasaki of Japan got the bronze with 44.9 points. This was Lee's second straight Asian Games silver, following one in the combined event in 2023. The objective of boulder is to comp
Sept. 30, 2026