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S. Korean taekwondo fighter Lee Ah-reum takes silver in women's 57kg
JAKARTA -- Taekwondo fighter Lee Ah-reum failed to defend her Asiad title on Tuesday. Lee lost to Luo Zongshi of China, 6-5, in the women's taekwondo 57-kilogram kyorugi (sparring) final at the 18th Asian Games to settle for South Korea's third taekwondo sparring silver at this year's sport event. South Korean taekwondo fighter Lee Ah-reum (left) on Tuesday spars with China's Luo Zongshi at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakart
Aug. 21, 2018
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S. Korean taekwondo fighter Lee Da-bin wins gold in women's over-67kg
JAKARTA -- Taekwondo fighter Lee Da-bin won a gold medal in the women's over-67 kilogram kyorugi (sparring) competition at the 18th Asian Games on Tuesday. South Korean Taekwondo fighter Lee Da-bin on Tuesday celebrates her gold medal victory at the Asian Games in Jakarta. (Yonhap)Lee defeated Deniz Cansel of Kazakhstan 27-21 in the final at the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games for her second Asiad gold medal.Lee, 21, was the Asiad champion in the women's 62-kilogram, but she decided to compete in
Aug. 21, 2018
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Defending champion Korea wins 2nd straight women’s volleyball match
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- South Korea won its second straight women’s volleyball match in its Asian Games title defense Tuesday. South Korea defeated Kazakhstan 3-1 (25-9, 25-15, 28-30, 25-20) at GBK Volleyball Indoor, improving to 2-0 in Pool B play. South Korea will next face world No. 1 China on Thursday at the same venue. There are six nations in Pool B and five in Pool A. The top four from each will advance to the quarterfinals.South Korean women’s volleyball players celebrate a point against K
Aug. 21, 2018
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Unified Korean team cruises into women's hoops quarters with win over Kazakhstan
JAKARTA -- The unified Korean basketball team cruised into the quarterfinals of the 18th Asian Games with an 85-57 win over Kazakhstan on Tuesday.North Korean center Ro Suk-yong led the balanced attack with a game-high 19 points at GBK Basketball Hall in Jakarta, as Korea clinched second place in Group X with a 3-1 record.Even if Chinese Taipei loses to Indonesia later Tuesday and drops to 3-1, it will still finish atop Group X because it holds the tiebreak edge over Korea thanks to an 87-85 win
Aug. 21, 2018
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Ex-Olympic champ fencers chase team gold after losing individual titles
JAKARTA -- South Korea's star fencers will chase gold medals in team events at the 18th Asian Games this week after they failed to win individual titles. Park Sang-young and Kim Ji-yeon will compete in team events Wednesday, hoping to make up for their loss in individual events Sunday.Park, a gold medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, took a silver medal in the men's individual epee after losing to Dmitriy Alexanin of Kazakhstan. Kim, a 2012 London Olympics gold medalist, won a bronze me
Aug. 21, 2018
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Rejuvenated Djokovic eyes US Open as 'Big Four' reunited
From the pits of despair in Paris, record-setting Novak Djokovic now eyes a third US Open title in New York where for the first time since Wimbledon last year, the sport's 'Big Four' will be reunited.Djokovic became the first man to win all nine Masters titles with victory over Roger Federer at Cincinnati on Sunday. (AFP)Having captured, against all the odds, a fourth Wimbledon in July, the 31-year-old Serb suddenly finds himself as joint-favourite with world number one Rafael Nadal to triumph a
Aug. 21, 2018
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Korea picks up 3 gold medals in fencing, taekwondo
JAKARTA -- South Korea arrived in Jakarta with an eye on eight gold medals in fencing at the 18th Asian Games. After getting shut out on Sunday, the team claimed two gold medals on the piste on Monday.Jeon Hee-sook and Gu Bon-gil won the women's foil and the men's sabre individual titles on Day 2 of the Asian Games. It was Jeon's second straight gold and Gu's third in a row.Gu's victory in the final came against his teammate Oh Sang-uk. (Yonhap)After two days of fencing, South Korea now has two
Aug. 21, 2018
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N. Korea's Om Yun-chol defends weightlifting title
JAKARTA (Yonhap) -- North Korean weightlifter Om Yun-chol successfully defended his Asian Games title on Monday. Om, 26, won the men's 56kg weightlifting competition at the 18th Asian Games after clearing a total of 287kg. Thach Kim Tuan of Vietnam took silver at 280kg, while Surahmat Bin Suwoto Wijoyo of Indonesia earned bronze at 272kg. North Korean weightlifter Om Yun-chol pumps a fist after a successful lift at the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games on Monday. YonhapThis was North Korea's 100th
Aug. 20, 2018
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S. Korea's Kim Jan-di wins silver in women's taekwondo 67kg
JAKARTA (Yonhap) -- South Korean taekwondo fighter Kim Jan-di won a silver medal in the women's 67-kilogram division at the 18th Asian Games on Monday. Kim lost to Julyana Al Sadeq of Jordan 5-1 in the final to claim an Asiad silver. This was South Korea's third taekwondo "kyorugi" (sparring) medal at Jakarta-Palembang 2018. South Korea`s Kim Jan-di lands a kick on opponent Nigora Tursunkulova of Uzbekistan in the semi-final round on Monday. YonhapEarlier, Kim Tae-hun won the men's 54kg, while
Aug. 20, 2018
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S. Korean taekwondo fighter Kim Tae-hun wins gold in men's 58kg
JAKARTA (Yonhap) -- South Korean taekwondo fighter Kim Tae-hun won a gold medal in the men's 58-kilogram division at the 18th Asian Games on Monday. Kim defeated Niyaz Pulatov of Uzbekistan 24-6 in the final to claim his second career Asian Games gold. He topped the men's 54kg at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon. Kim Tae-hun and coaching staff celebrate his gold medal at the Asian Games on Monday. YonhapIt was also South Korea's first gold medal from taekwondo "kyorugi" (sparring) competition at
Aug. 20, 2018
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Korea grabs 2 shooting silver medals
PALEMBANG, Indonesia -- South Korea picked up two silver medals in shooting at the 18th Asian Games on Monday. First, it was Jung Eun-hea winning silver in the women’s 10-meter air rifle at Jakabaring Sport City Shooting Range in Palembang, the co-host city of the Asian Games with Jakarta. Then Kang Gee-eun followed up with silver in the women’s trap. Jung Eun-hea (Yonhap)In the air rifle event, Jung scored 248.6 points to finish second behind Zhao Ryozhu of China, who won gold with an Asian Ga
Aug. 20, 2018
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Korean shooting legend aims for his 1st individual gold
South Korean shooting legend Jin Jong-oh will try to add one more honor to his already-decorated resume on Tuesday by winning the men's 10-meter air pistol event at the 18th Asian Games. Jin, who won four gold medals from the last three Olympic Games, has three Asian Games gold medals, but all of them are from team events. He has one silver and three bronzes in individual events. In what could be his final Asian Games appearance, Jin will aim to get his first individual Asian Games gold medal in
Aug. 20, 2018
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Djokovic wins Cincy title to complete Masters matched set
Mason, OH (AFP) -- Novak Djokovic ended a career-long jinx, lifting the trophy in Cincinnati at last to complete a matched set of Masters 1000 titles.Djokovic, who came up empty in five prior Cincinnati finals, defeated seven-time winner Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the final.The former world number one became the first man to win all nine of the ATP's Masters 1000 events in the elite series' current configuration.Federer, meanwhile, lost a final in the hardcourt US Open tuneup for the first time.
Aug. 20, 2018
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Two taekwondo golds among 11 medals for Korea on Day 1
JAKARTA -- South Korea wasted little time establishing its winning ways at the 18th Asian Games, picking up two gold medals to go along with three silver and six bronze medals on Sunday, the first full day of competition in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.Taekwondo poomsae practitioners delivered both of the gold medals, plus one silver and one bronze, to get the ball rolling in Jakarta. Poomsae, which requires taekwondo practitioners to demonstrate attacking and defensive moves of the Korean m
Aug. 20, 2018
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Unified Korean rowing team finishes last in qualification in Asiad debut
PALEMBANG -- A unified Korean men's rowing team finished last in its qualification group in its Asian Games debut on Sunday.Kim Su-min and Park Tae-hyun from South Korea and Yun Chol-jin and Kim Chol-jin from North Korea finished last among four teams in Heat 1 of the lightweight men's four competition with a time of 7:12.74. The 2,000-meter race took place at Jakabaring Lake inside Jakabaring Sports City in Palembang, a co-host city of the 2018 Asian Games along with Jakarta. (Yonhap)Indonesia
Aug. 19, 2018
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Koreas march together at Asian Games' opening ceremony
South and North Korea marched together at the opening ceremony of the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta on Saturday, marking the second time in six months that the two were united behind one flag at an international sporting competition.South Korean female basketball player Lim Yung-hui and North Korean football player Ju Kyong-chol together carried the Korean Unification Flag -- a blue Korean Peninsula again a white background -- during the Parade of Athletes at Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Main Stadium.I
Aug. 18, 2018
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S. Korean prime minister leaves for Indonesia for Asian Games
South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon left for Indonesia Saturday to attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, setting the stage for a possible meeting with a senior North Korean official. (Yonhap)South and North Korea are set to march together behind the Korean Unification Flag at the opening ceremony in Jakarta later in the day.The rival Koreas are scheduled to field joint teams in three sports -- women's basketball, rowing and canoeing -- in a sign of warming relations. The two Koreas
Aug. 18, 2018
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Co-host city of Palembang could be promised land for S. Korea
Palembang, a co-host city of the 2018 Asian Games along with Jakarta, could prove to be the promised land for South Korea, once the competition begins in earnest on Sunday.Located about 430 kilometers northwest of the Indonesia capital, Palembang will stage women's football, shooting, rowing, canoeing, bowling, tennis and soft tennis, among others. (EPA-Yonhap)While preliminary matches in football, basketball and handball have already been played prior to Saturday's opening ceremony due to sched
Aug. 18, 2018
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Unified Korean team suffers 1st loss in women's basketball
The unified Korea women's basketball team suffered its first loss at the Asian Games on Friday, falling to Chinese Taipei 87-85 in overtime.Korea rallied from a 71-65 deficit with 3:22 remaining in the fourth quarter to force the extra session in Group X play at GBK Basketball Hall, thanks to Kim Han-byul's desperate putback with 6.2 ticks to go. Kim was fouled on the shot but failed to convert the ensuing free throw to complete the three-point play.Chinese Taipei made five of its first six fiel
Aug. 17, 2018
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S. Korea officially checks into athletes' village in Jakarta
The South Korean delegation for the 18th Asian Games officially paraded into the athletes' village in Jakarta at a welcome event on Thursday. Led by chef de mission Kim Seong-jo, 20 South Korean athletes and officials attended the team welcome ceremony at the athletes' village in Kemayoran, central Jakarta, along with delegations from Japan, Nepal, Hong Kong and the Maldives. Greeted by Yuni Kartika, the mayor of the village, they also received a gift of appreciation at the event.So far, more th
Aug. 16, 2018