[Asian Games] S. Korea reaches finals in men's, women's basketball

South Korea reached the gold medal games in both the men's and women's basketball at the Asian Games on Wednesday.In the men's semis, South Korea defeated Japan 71-63 to advance to the final where It will take on Iran, which edged out Kazakhstan 80-78 in the other semis. The men's final tip-off will be 6:15 p.m. Friday at Samsan World Gymnasium.In the women's event, South Korea beat Japan 58-53 to reach the gold medal game against China, which earlier defeated Chinese Taipei 75-63.The women's fi

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[Asian Games] S. Korea sweeps 3 taekwondo golds

South Korea swept up three taekwondo gold medals at the Asian Games on Wednesday, showcasing its dominance in the traditional Korean martial art.Kim So-hui triumphed in the women's under-46㎏ division with a10-4 victory over Chinese Taipei's Lin Wan Ting in the final at Ganghwa Dolmens Gymnasium on Ganghwa Island, just northwest of Incheon.Kim, the reigning world title holder in the division, brought the first gold to the host country, which had only picked up one silver and two bronze medals on

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[Asian Games] S. Korea wins bronze in women's football

South Korea defeated Vietnam 3-0 for the women's football bronze medal at the Incheon Asian Games on Wednesday.Kwon Hah-nul, Jung Seol-bin and Park Hee-young each scored a goal in the second-half, as South Korea earned its second consecutive Asiad bronze.South Korea had lost to North Korea 2-1 in the semifinals Monday to fall into the bronze medal contest, while Vietnam had lost to Japan 3-0 in the other semifinal match.After a scoreless half at Incheon Football Stadium, Kwon got the team's firs

SoccerOct. 1, 2014

[Asian Games] S. Korea beats China to win gold in women's hockey

In a measure of redemption after four years, South Korea beat China 1-0 to clinch the gold medal in women's hockey at the Asian Games on Wednesday.Kim Da-rae scored the winner with 4:20 left in the third quarter, and South Korea held on to beat the defending Asiad champion China in the final match at Seonhak Hockey Stadium in the country's western port city of Incheon, securing the country's first title at the continental competition in 16 years.At the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, China had beat

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[Asian Games] S. Korea wins first-ever silver in team rhythmic gymnastics

South Korean earned its first-ever silver medal in the rhythmic gymnastics team event at the Incheon Asian Games Wednesday.The team of Son Yeon-jae, Lee Da-ae, Gim Yun-hee and Lee Na-kyung collected a combined 164.046 points from the four apparatus routines in the team final held in Namdong Gymnasium, southern Incheon, after Uzbekistan with 170.130.South Korea had previously collected two team bronzes in 1998 and 2002.For the team event, a team of four gymnasts compete in 12 routines, with the t

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[Asian Games] Cricket - It's a 'funny' game

 INCHEON -- While cricket is a foreign sport in many Asian nations, it has a huge following in other parts of Asia and the world. Cricket is like a religion in India, and also has a strong grip on its neighbors. It’s not surprising then that at these Asian Games, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka picked up the gold, silver, and bronze respectively in the women’s competition. Unfortunately India didn’t send a team in either the men’s and women’s events, likely due to their national players bein

Olympic GamesOct. 1, 2014

S. Korea sweeps 4 golds in sailing

South Korea grabbed four sailing golds and one bronze medal at the Incheon Asian Games Tuesday, after surprise victories in the sport that remains largely a niche in the country. With 13 medals decided in sailing at Wangsan Sailing Marina in this port city, Park Sung-bin won gold in the men's optimist dinghy race after earning 27 net points and discarding 16 penalized points.The 14-year-old skipper became the youngest gold medalist in the host country's 831-member delegation.After 12 races in se

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[Asian Games] North Korea seeks revenge against Japan

North Korea will eye revenge against Japan in the upcoming women’s football gold medal match, the team’s coach said Tuesday.Kim Kwang-min will lead the North Korean women’s squad against Norio Sasaki’s Japanese side in the final set for Wednesday at Munhak Stadium. It will be a rematch of the gold medal match at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, where Japan prevailed 1-0.The win gave Japan its first Asiad gold in women’s football and snapped North Korea’s gold medal streak at two.On the

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[Asian Games] Doping tests catch only small fry

Dope testing at this year’s Asian Games has been more stringent than ever ― and so far only two of the more than 9,500 athletes taking part in the regional Olympic-style event have tested positive.No big names, no gold medals taken away, no world records stricken from the books.But is that a good thing?Officials administering the anti-doping regime at the games acknowledge that as hard-core dopers grow more sophisticated and better versed in how to avoid detection, in-competition doping tests at

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[Asian Games] Two Koreas unified on football ground

South Koreans forgot decades-long political tensions, at least for 90 minutes, on Monday, cheering not only their compatriot footballers but those from North Korea waging a battle for a spot in the Asiad final.The inter-Korean showdown in the semifinal match in South Korea's western port city of Incheon was fierce; South Korea was bent on the seemingly elusive goal of clinching the first-ever Asiad gold in the women's football, while the North aimed to take the title back after eight years in th

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[Asian Games] S. Korea captures gold in men's doubles tennis

South Korean tennis duo of Lim Dong-kyu and Chung Hyeon clinched gold in the men's doubles at the Asian Games on Monday, ending the country's 28-year gold medal drought in the event.Lim and Chung beat Saketh Sai Myneni and Sanam Krishan Singh 7-5, 7-6 (2) in the men's doubles tennis final at Yeorumul Tennis Courts.The eighth-seeded pair had beat the fourth seed Indian team of Divij Sharan and Yuki Bhambri in full sets in the semifinals.After nearly three and a half hours of rain delay, the match

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[Asian Games] Korea eyes multiple titles in taekwondo

The Korean traditional martial art of taekwondo will begin its Asian Games competition on Tuesday, with the host expected to collect multiple titles.A total of 16 weight classes, eight each for men and women, will be contested. A country can be represented in up to 12 of them, half a dozen each for men and women.On the first day, South Koreans will be featured in the men’s 74 kg and 87 kg, and the women’s 49 kg and 53 kg. Yoon Jeong-yeon, the reigning Asian champ in the women’s 53 kg, is seen as

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[Asian Games] Sighs of relief after baseball gold medal

It was as ugly as a game of this magnitude can get, but South Korea will gladly take its 6-3 victory over Chinese Taipei for the gold medal at the ongoing Asian Games here.South Korea went down earlier and clawed back into the game in unsightly fashion. In the eighth, the tying run that made it 3-3 came on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch. The go-ahead run later in the same inning was scored on a grounder to second.Only Hwang Jae-gyun’s clean single to right, scoring two runs that dealt one final blo

BaseballSept. 29, 2014