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  (LEAD) (Olympics) Short track team's elder statesman collects silver in Olympic swan song

  (ATTN: ADDS comments in last 6 paras)By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- In the final race of his third and last Winter Olympics, the South Korean short track speed skater Kwak Yoon-gy surely had a memorable ending.The 32-year-old anchored Sout
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  Beijing, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- Below are the medal standings for the top 10 countries and South Korea at the Beijing Winter Olympics as of Wednesday. ※ ROC stands for the Russian Olympic Committee. Beca
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  (LEAD) (Olympics) Choi Min-jeong gets icing on cake with 2nd straight short track gold

  (ATTN: ADDS comments)By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- After a rocky start to her second Winter Olympics, Beijing 2022 kept getting better and better for Choi Min-jeong.For the South Korean short track speed skater, it culminated in a gold me
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  (LEAD) (Olympics) Short tracker Choi Min-jeong wins gold in women's 1,500m

  (ATTN: ADDS details, photos)By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- Choi Min-jeong successfully defended her gold medal in the women's 1,500m short track speed skating race in Beijing on Tuesday, earning her third medal in the Chinese capital i
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  (Olympics) Choi Min-jeong gets icing on cake with 2nd straight short track gold

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- After a rocky start to her second Winter Olympics, Beijing 2022 kept getting better and better for Choi Min-jeong.For the South Korean short track speed skater, it culminated in a gold medal in the 1,500m on
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  (Olympics) Short track team's elder statesman collects silver in Olympic swan song

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- In the final race of his third and last Winter Olympics, the South Korean short track speed skater Kwak Yoon-gy surely had a memorable ending.The 32-year-old anchored South Korea to the silver medal in the me
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  (Olympics) Hwang Dae-heon caps off memorable 2nd Olympics with relay silver

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korean short track speed skater Hwang Dae-heon ended his second Winter Olympics on Wednesday with his second medal in Beijing, doubling the total from his debut four years ago.Hwang helped South Korea t
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  (Olympics) Short tracker Choi Min-jeong wins gold in women's 1,500m

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- Choi Min-jeong successfully defended her gold medal in the women's 1,500m short track speed skating race in Beijing on Tuesday, earning her third medal in the Chinese capital in her final race here.Choi d
• (URGENT) (Olympics) Short tracker Choi Min-jeong wins gold in women's 1,500m

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  (LEAD) (Olympics) S. Korea captures silver in men's short track relay

  (ATTN: ADDS details from para 7, photos)By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea grabbed silver in the men's 5,000m short track speed skating relay at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday for its first medal in the event since 2010.The quartet
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  (Olympics) S. Korea captures silver in men's short track relay

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea grabbed silver in the men's 5,000m short track speed skating relay at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday for its first medal in the event since 2010.The quartet of Hwang Dae-heon, Kwak Yoon-gy, Park Ja
• (URGENT) (Olympics) S. Korea wins silver in men's short track relay

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  (Olympics) Figure skater moving on from letdown in short program

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korean figure skater You Young appeared to have opened her short program at Beijing 2022 with a clean triple axel Tuesday night. Judges saw it differently, as they downgraded the jump to a double axel.F
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  (LEAD) (Olympics) S. Korea falls to Switzerland in women's curling, medal hope takes hit

  (ATTN: UPDATES with latest standings in paras 5-7)By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea lost to Switzerland 8-4 in its latest women's curling match at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday, as its fading medal hope took another hit.South Kore
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  (Olympics) S. Korea blames big curling loss on poor execution

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- It's one thing to have strong game plans but quite another to execute them.The South Korean women's curling team learned that the hard way on Wednesday, as it lost to Switzerland 8-4 at Beijing 2022 t
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  (Olympics) S. Korea falls to Switzerland in women's curling, medal hope takes hit

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea lost to Switzerland 8-4 in its latest women's curling match at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday, as its fading medal hope took another hit.South Korea, the defending silver medalist, dropped to 3-4 w
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  (Olympics) Figure skater looking to make up ground in medal push

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- Figure skater You Young will have to make up some sizable ground to push for a medal in the free skate portion of the women's singles competition Thursday.You ranked sixth after Tuesday's short progra
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  BEIJING, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- The following is the list of events for South Korean athletes on Thursday at the Beijing Winter Olympics. All starting times are local.- Curling (National Aquatics Centre)Women's round robin vs. Sweden (2:05 p.m.)- Fi
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  (Olympics) Figure skater trying to overcome nerves in Olympic debut

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting the size of crowds during the Beijing Winter Olympics, there were just a few hundred spectators at Capital Indoor Stadium on Tuesday watching the women's singles figure
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  Beijing, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- Below are the medal standings for the top 10 countries and South Korea at the Beijing Winter Olympics as of Tuesday. ※ ROC stands for the Russian Olympic Committee. Becaus