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Mon, July 22, 2019 | 07:04

Topless Tongan eyes unique Olympic treble

WELLINGTON (AFP) - Tongan athlete Pita Taufatofua - the bare-chested flag-bearer who became an online sensation at both the Rio and Pyeongchang Olympics - plans to break out the baby oil once again and compete at the Tokyo Games in 2020.

2019-05-17 17:31

Olympic champion Lee Sang-hwa bids tearful goodbye

Lee Sang-hwa, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in the women's 500-meter speed skating, bade farewell to fans Thursday as she announced her retirement from the sport.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2019-05-16 16:39

Couture scores 3 goals, Sharks beat Avs 4-2 in Game 3

San Jose center Gustav Nyquist had a couple of special deliveries this week.

2019-05-01 17:36

S. Korea beats Hungary to open men's hockey world championship

South Korea defeated Hungary 5-1 to begin the men's hockey world championship in Kazakhstan on Monday, a winning start to its quest for a promotion back to the top competition.

2019-04-30 17:59

Olympic table tennis champion Ryu Seung-min elected to key position at ITTF

The 2004 Olympic men's table tennis champion Ryu Seung-min has been elected to the executive committee of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

2019-04-23 18:06

Join 482nd Turtle Marathon

The Hankook Ilbo, the sister newspaper of The Korea Times, will host the 482nd Turtle Walkathon this Saturday. This time, the newspaper will collaborate with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for the 2019 Gwangju FINA World Championships. The six-kilometer return walkathon will start at 8:30 a.m. in Baekbeom Square on the slope of Mount Nam in the middle of Seoul, w...

2019-04-16 18:15

Two Koreas promote peace through taekwondo at UN Geneva

South and North Korean athletes promoted peace through taekwondo at the United Nations (UN) office in Geneva, Friday (local time), as they wrapped up an eight-day tour in Europe to mark the 25th anniversary of the martial art becoming an Olympic sport. Demonstration teams from the World Taekwondo (WT), led by South Korean Choue Chung-won, and the International Taekwondo Feder...

Jung Min-ho | 2019-04-15 13:26

South, North Koreans celebrate 25 years of taekwondo at Olympics

Taekwondo athletes from South and North Koreas staged a joint performance at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday (local time), to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the martial art becoming an Olympic sport. The World Taekwondo (WT), under the leadership of South Korean Choue Chung-won, and the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF), led by North Korean R...

Jung Min-ho | 2019-04-12 14:57

Ex-NHL forward helps Korea improve goal scoring

With three consecutive 20-goal seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the early 1990s, Sergei Nemchinov knows a thing or two about putting the puck into the net.

2019-04-09 17:58

Korean, Japanese skaters honored for show of friendship at Olympics

Two rival speed skaters from South Korea and Japan were honored Sunday for their display of friendship in the heat of the Olympic competition. Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea and Nao Kodaira of Japan received the Korea-Japan Friendship Award, presented by the PyeongChang Winter Olympics Commemorative Foundation in Seoul.

2019-04-07 15:05

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