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  (LEAD) (Olympics) You Young 6th after women's singles short program

  (ATTN: ADDS scoring details, comments throughout)By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's You Young ranked sixth after the short program of women's singles figure skating at Beijing 2022 on Tuesday, nearly matching her best sco
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  (Olympics) Figure skaters make strong debuts; speed skaters disappoint

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korean figure skaters You Young and Kim Ye-lim made solid Olympic debuts in Beijing on Tuesday, delivering mostly clean performances in the short program to put themselves in the top 10.You scored 70.34
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  (Olympics) You Young 6th after women's singles short program

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's You Young ranked sixth after the short program of women's singles figure skating at Beijing 2022 on Tuesday, nearly matching her best score of the season with a strong performance.You sc
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  (Olympics) Short track champion trying to laugh off pressure ahead of relay final

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- Hwang Dae-heon isn't prone to giving cliched answers. Ask the South Korean short track speed skater competing in the Olympics, and he won't resort to stock responses, like taking it one race at a time
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  (Olympics) Winning record-tying medal not on short tracker's mind ahead of final race

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- As she wrapped up her final training session of Beijing 2022 on Tuesday, the eve of her last event, South Korean short track speed skater Choi Min-jeong said she had many different thoughts going through her
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  '고양 세계태권도품새선수권대회' 첫 참가 신청국은 필리핀

  (고양=연합뉴스) 황대일 기자 = 경기 고양시에서 오는 4월 21~24일 열리는 세계태권도품새선수권대회에 최근 2개국 선수단이 참가 신청을 한 것으로 15일 확인됐다. 시는 세계태권도연맹(www.worldtaekwondo.org) 홈페이지를 통해 이달 초부터 참가 신청을 받은 결과 필리핀과 아프리카 수단이 차례로 신청서를 보내왔다고 밝혔다.필리핀은 태권도 품새가 아시안게임 정식 종목으로 채택된 '2018 자카르타ㆍ팔렘방 아시안게임'
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  (Olympics) Beijing 2022 a confidence builder for budding short tracker

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- Given his gimpy ankle, South Korean short track speed skater Lee June-seo may not be available for the men's 5,000m relay final at Beijing 2022 on Wednesday.Unless Lee returns to the ice at Capital Indoor
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  (Olympics) Canadian curling coach for S. Korea savors win over rival team coached by compatriot

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- Everywhere Peter Gallant looked, there were fellow Canadians.Gallant, a native of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, is coaching the South Korean women's curling team for the second consecutive Winter O
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  (Olympics) Short track speed skating to conclude with 2 finals

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- The short track speed skating competition at Beijing 2022 will wrap up Wednesday with two finals: the men's 5,000m relay and the women's 1,500m.South Korean star Choi Min-jeong is the defending champi
• (Olympics) schedule-Day 12

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  BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- The following is the list of events for South Korean athletes on Wednesday at the Beijing Winter Olympics. All starting times are local.- Alpine skiing (Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre)Men's slalom Run 1 (10:15
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  (LEAD) (Olympics) S. Korea beats Japan to keep hopes alive in women's curling

  (ATTN: UPDATES with standings in para 3)By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea defeated Japan 10-5 to keep its medal hopes alive in the women's curling tournament at Beijing 2022 on Monday, relying on a combination of superb shotma
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  (Olympics) S. Korean skip rises to occasion in key curling win over rival Japan

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- With South Korea having lost in its last two meetings against Japan in women's curling, skip Kim Eun-jung wasn't about to let that happen for a third time, and certainly not on a stage as important as
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  (Olympics) S. Korea tops Japan in curling rival match; bobsledders well out of contention

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea got a split of its Olympic women's curling double header Monday, losing to the United States in the morning but then beating Japan to keep its medal hopes alive in Beijing.After falling to the
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  (Olympics) S. Korea beats Japan to keep hopes alive in women's curling

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea defeated Japan 10-5 to keep its medal hopes alive in the women's curling tournament at Beijing 2022 on Monday, relying on a combination of superb shotmaking and the opposition's miscues.So
• (Olympics) medal standings

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  Beijing, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- Below are the medal standings for the top 10 countries and South Korea at the Beijing Winter Olympics as of Monday. ※ ROC stands for the Russian Olympic Committee. Because
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  (Olympics) Short tracker willing to put injured hand on line for relay gold

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean short track speed skater Park Jang-hyuk is a fearless one.Only a week after suffering several cuts to his left hand in a collision with another skater, Park said he is not afraid to trade his han
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  (Olympics) Short tracker wavering on decision to retire

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- Before coming to Beijing for his third Winter Games, veteran South Korean short track speed skater Kwak Yoon-gy had said this would be his last Olympic hurrah.Then on Monday, two days before his final race at
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  (LEAD) (Olympics) S. Korean figure skater not pleased with decision clearing Russian star after failed doping test

  (ATTN: ADDS comments by another skater in paras 7-11, photo)BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean figure skater Kim Ye-lim said Monday she was none too pleased with a decision that cleared the Russian phenom Kamila Valieva to compete at Beijing 2
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  (Olympics) S. Korean figure skater not pleased with decision clearing Russian star after failed doping test

  BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean figure skater Kim Ye-lim said Monday she was none too pleased with a decision that cleared the Russian phenom Kamila Valieva to compete at Beijing 2022 despite failing a doping test.After a training session a
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  (Olympics) S. Korean curlers playing board game to take mind off loss

  By Yoo Jee-hoBEIJING, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- There is no time to wallow in self-pity for the South Korean women's curling team in Beijing on Monday, after losing the first game of a crucial double header to the United States.Led by skip Kim Eun-jung