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    World Cup work still remains for Korea

    On Thursday morning in Korea, millions will tune in to see what transpires in the Mexican city of Monterey as Korea faces South Africa. A win or a draw will ensure second place in Group A, but defeat would mean a third-place finish — though that could still mean a place in the Round of 32 — or fourth, which would mean elimination and humiliation. Which version of the Taeguk Warriors will turn up? Will it be the team that looked full of energy, speed and imagination as they beat the Czech Republic 2-1? Or will it be the passive pack that lost 1-0 to Mexico? If they had won or tied the game, then the final group game could have been about resting a few players and getting ready for the Round of 32. Instead, there is work still to do. South Africa, ranked 38 places below Korea at 61st in the world, have yet to impress. Their opening games were a 2-0 defeat against Mexico and a 1-1 draw with the Czechs. Bafana Bafana’s Belgian boss Hugo Broos is expecting a tough test. "I'm very sorry to say this, but they are like Duracells: You plug them in, and they start running, and they run for

    2 MIN READBy John Duerden
    World Cup work still remains for Korea
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    S. Korea chasing knockout berth in final Group A match vs. South Africa

    3 MIN READBy Yonhap
    S. Korea chasing knockout berth in final Group A match vs. South Africa
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    S. Korean defender ready to shut down South Africa

    2 MIN READBy Yonhap
    S. Korean defender ready to shut down South Africa
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    Lionel Messi becomes top scorer in World Cup history with two more goals for Argentina

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    Lionel Messi becomes top scorer in World Cup history with two more goals for Argentina
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    Monterrey Koreans rally behind national team at FIFA World Cup

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    Monterrey Koreans rally behind national team at FIFA World Cup
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Rio 2016: Japan's table tennis prodigy snares bronze

Japan's Mima Ito celebrates after her table tennis team won the bronze medal match against Singapore at the Rio Games, Tuesday. / AP-YonhapBy Choi Ha-youngJapanese table tennis player Mima Ito, 15, clinched a bronze medal in the women’s team competition Tuesday -- the youngest medalist in Olympic table tennis history. Ito missed the chance for gold after losing to Germany on Sunday, but defeated world No.4 Feng Tianwei of Singapore 3-0 in the bronze medal match at Riocentral Pavilion 3. The world No.9 player replaced Guo Yue, who was 16 at the 2004 Athens Games, as the youngest medal winner in the sport. “I’m so happy,” the Japan Times reported Ito as saying. “Losing two days ago was so difficult and I cried, but that night I got myself together and vowed that I would end the competition with a smile on my face.”Ito surprised watchers in 2014 by becoming the youngest winner – aged 13 -- of an International Table Tennis Federation event.

Aug 17, 2016
Rio 2016: Japan's table tennis prodigy snares bronze
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Korea's 10-gold goal in jeopardy

By Baek Byung-yeulTeam Korea is seemingly going to miss its goal of winning 10 gold medals at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics as its winning drought lasted through day 11.Since South Korea won the gold medal in the men’s archery team event, Friday, no South Korean athlete has stood on top of the Olympic podium for four straight days, knocking the country out of the top 10.As of day 11, South Korea ranks 11th with six gold, three silver and five bronze, behind 10th placed Japan with seven gold, four silver and 18 bronze and ninth placed Australia with seven gold, eight silver and nine bronze.South Korean athletes competed in wrestling, badminton, volleyball, sailing and cycling, Tuesday, but no one got a medal berth.In wrestling, Ryu Han-su took a loss in the bronze medal berth of the men’s Greco-Roman 66 kg.In badminton, Jung Kyung-eun and Shin Seung-chan were knocked out of the women’s badminton doubles semifinals losing to the Japanese duo of Misaki Matsumoto and Ayaka Takahashi 2-0 (21-16, 21-15).The Jung-Shin duo was the sole South Korean pair to reach the semifinal

Aug 17, 2016
Korea's 10-gold goal in jeopardy
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Rio 2016: Chinese less obsessed with medals, enjoy Olympics

Despite its relatively poor medal performance compared to previous Olympics, the Chinese are not annoyed like they would have been in the past. / AP-YonhapBy Choi Ha-youngChina’s medal record at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics is the worst since 1996 in Atlanta because of the country’s less-patriotic attitude to international sport, Reuters reported Tuesday. Eleven days into the Games, China had 17 gold, 15 silver and 19 bronze medals, ranking third behind the U.S. and Britain. At this stage in the 2012 London Games, China had 25 gold medals. China has dominated Olympic medal tables ― behind the U.S. ― with 38 gold medals in London (2012), 51 in Beijing (2008) and 32 in Athens (2004). But at the Rio Games, China has failed to snare medals in its traditionally strong events, such as springboard diving and badminton. Reuters named several factors as responsible, including unfamiliarity with the South American region and rule changes. But despite its relatively poor medal performance, the Chinese are not annoyed like they would have been in the past. Instead, they are

Aug 17, 2016
Rio 2016: Chinese less obsessed with medals, enjoy Olympics
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Kim's lone campaign ends

Kim Yeon-koung of South Korea reacts after losing to the Netherlands during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics women’s volleyball quarterfinal match at Maracanazinho Arena in Rio, Tuesday. / YonhapKorean women's volleyball team loses 1-3 to NetherlandsBy Nam Hyun-wooThe South Korean women’s volleyball campaign ended in a 1-3 (19-25, 14-25, 25-23, 20-25) quarterfinal loss against the Netherlands on Tuesday.The team’s lead player Kim Yeon-koung seemed to be too overloaded to save her teammates from collapsing on their own errors.Kim has been playing and training without proper rest throughout the season.Her professional team, Turkey’s Fenerbahce, had a tight fixture this season. The team wrapped up the regular season on the top of the Turkish league table with 20 wins and two losses, and made it into the final group play to have six more games and become a runner-up. Also, it had to get through the continental championship.After she was called up by the national team, Kim returned South Korea in early May and led her countrywomen to qualify for the Rio Games. During th

Aug 17, 2016
Kim's lone campaign ends
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Late bloomer wrestler Ryu fails to achieve grand slam

Ryu Han-Su of South Korea and Migran Arutyunyan of Armenia compete in the men’s Greco-Roman wrestling 66 kilogram class quarterfinal match during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Tuesday. / YonhapBy Choi Ha-youngWrestler Ryu Han-su failed to win his first Olympic medal, Tuesday, losing his chance to achieve a grand slam in international competitions following his victories in the World Championship, Asia Championship, and Asian Games.The 28-year-old was not a well-known wrestler. He had been a counterpart for other players’ training in the national team for nine years before 2013. He was always under the shadow of his best friend Kim Hyeon-woo, the gold medalist in the 2012 London Games.Ryu got a ticket to the Olympics in the 66 kilogram class, as Kim moved up a weight class for the Greco-Roman style to 75 kilograms.“It feels like walking on a cloud,” Kim said after being selected for Team Korea at the Rio Games. “In my dream, I got a gold in the Olympics final despite my injury, wearing tape on my arm,” he told reporters at the Taenung Training Center

Aug 17, 2016
Late bloomer wrestler Ryu fails to achieve grand slam
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Whimoon clinch Bonghwang title

Players of the Whimoon High School’s baseball team run from the dugout as they celebrate their Bonghwang High School Baseball Tournament title win at Suwon KT Wiz Park, Tuesday. / Korea Times photo by Seo Jae-hoonBy Baek Byung-yeul With a walk-off sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 13th, Whimoon High School defeated Gunsan Commercial High School 4-3 to clinch the Bonghwang High School Baseball Tournament title, Tuesday.Co-hosted by Hankook Ilbo, sister paper of The Korea Times, and the Korea Baseball Association (KBA), 69 high school baseball teams across Korea competed in the 44th tournament for 14 days from Aug. 3 to Tuesday.The victory was Seoul’s Whimoon High School’s second title win after the team’s 2014 win over Yushin High School. Gunsan Commercial High School remained the runner-up for the second time following their second-place finish in 2010. The school, located in North Jeolla Province, clinched the Bonghwang title three times in 1982, 1996 and 2013.A day before their clash at Suwon KT Wiz Park, Whimoon advanced to the final after defeat

Aug 17, 2016
Whimoon clinch Bonghwang title
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PyeongChang committee learns from Rio Olympics

A captured image from an animation clip featuring mascots for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics shows Soohorang, a white tiger mascot for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, left, and Bandabi, an Asiatic black bear for the Paralympic Winter Games. / Courtesy of PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic GamesBy Park Jae-hyukThe PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games (POCOG) members said on Wednesday that they are acquiring Olympic knowhow and insights from the 2016 Rio Organizing Committee and will apply them to the PyeongChang Winter Games.POCOG members at the Rio Games will attend the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Observer Program, which includes the essence of the Olympic Games’ knowledge management and the transfer process.The Rio Organizing Committee and IOC will guide POCOG members and provide a special chance to live, learn and experience real operations of the Olympics.Through the 76 programs, the POCOG members will study airport operations, the look of the Games, accredita

Aug 17, 2016By Park Jae-hyuk
PyeongChang committee learns from Rio Olympics
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Rio 2016: Fallen runners share Olympic spirit

Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand and Abbey D'Agostino of the U.S. shake hands after competing in a heat of the 5000m in Rio de Janeiro. / AP-Yonhap By Choi Ha-youngNikki Hamblin from New Zealand was crying on the track after she and Abbey D’Agostino from the U.S. clipped legs and fell in a heat of the women’s 5,000m in Rio on Monday. “Get up. We have to finish this,” D’Agostino told Hamblin, reaching out her hand, according to the Associated Press. Once both were upright, it was obvious D’Agostino had come off second-best from the collision and she went down again. Then, Hamblin encouraged her to complete the race. Hamblin stayed with her until the finish line and they hugged each other in tears. D’Agostino was then put in a wheelchair. “I’ve never met her before,” Hamblin said of D’Agostino after the race. “(She is) such an amazing woman. “If I can even give her back 1 percent of what she gave me when she helped me get back up off the track that would be amazing.” The two athletes were given entry t

Aug 17, 2016
Rio 2016: Fallen runners share Olympic spirit
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Int'l martial arts event to kick off in Sept.

An international martial arts competition will kick off in central South Korea early next month, bringing together some 2,000 fighters and officials from across the world, organizers said Wednesday.The inaugural World Martial Arts Masterships (http://www.2016martial-arts.kr) will be staged from Sept. 2-8 in the city of Cheongju, some 130 kilometers south of Seoul, in North Chungcheong Province with a total of 173 gold medals up for grabs.Dubbed the "Martial Arts Olympics," the event aims to attract more than 2,000 competitors and coaches from all over the world and offer programs in 17 non-Western martial arts, including taekwondo, wushu, judo, kendo, muaythai and kickboxing.As of Saturday, 1,993 athletes and officials from 87 countries have signed up for the event, with a total of 1,454 matches to be held, according to the organizers.The event's torch will be lighted at a hillside castle in the city on the eve of the competition before staying for a night at the city hall and being moved to the main gymnasium. North Chungcheong Province Gov. and chief organizer Lee Si-jong will rece

Aug 17, 2016
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Rio 2016: S. Korean volleyball knocked out by the Netherlands

South Koran volleyballer Yang Hyo-jin attempts to push the ball over the Netherlands’ blocking in the women’s volleyball quarterfinals at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Tuesday. The Netherlands beat South Korea 3-1. / YonhapSouth Korea bowed out of the quarterfinals in women's volleyball at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics Tuesday, unable to end a 40-year medal drought.The Netherlands beat South Korea 3-1 (25-19, 25-14, 23-25, 25-20) at Maracanazinho to reach the final four.South Korea was pursuing its first Olympic volleyball medal -- male or female -- since the women's team won bronze in 1976 in Montreal.The teams traded points early on, before the Netherlands started to pull ahead. Up 8-7, Lonneke Sloetjes and Judith Pietersen went to work on offense and staked the Dutch to a 17-11 lead.Sloetjes, who scored nine points in the opening set alone, was too much for South Korea, and soon it was 23-16 for the Netherlands.South Korea made a late push with three straight points before Sloetjes' spike and Pietersen's ace ended the set for the Netherlands at 25-19.Tied at 3-3 in the se

Aug 17, 2016
Rio 2016: S. Korean volleyball knocked out by the Netherlands
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