GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- The joint Korean hockey team lost its final game at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Tuesday, falling to Sweden 6-1 in the seventh place match.Korea did get its second goal of the tournament, a power play marker by forward Han Soo-jin on the team's first shot of the game in the first period, but fifth-ranked Sweden was simply too much for Korea to handle.Korea finished dead last in the eight-team competition with the loss at Kwandong Hockey Centre in Gangneung.Th

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GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- The once-improbable Olympic journey has come to an end for the unified Korean women's hockey team, which, even with losses piling up, has been hailed in many corners as a symbol of peace.Korea lost to Sweden 6-1 in the seventh place match of the women's tournament at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and it was the team's final contest of the competition. Korea lost all five games it played here by a combined score of 28-2.In the minds of those who engineer it all behind

GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- When the South Korean ice dance couple of Min Yu-ra and Alexander Gamelin decided to choose "Arirang," a Korean folk ballad, as their free dance music for the 2017-2018 Olympic season, their coaches and friends opposed the plan.Their coaches had tried to stop them, saying the audience and even judges would hardly understand the meaning and feeling of such unfamiliar music and rhythm.But they pushed forward with it and skated to the traditional folk song regarded as one

GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- South Korea's sole ice dance team of Min Yu-ra and Alexander Gamelin finished 18th in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics after performing their emotional "Arirang" free dance.Min and Gamelin scored 86.52 points in the free dance at the Gangneung Ice Arena and posted an overall 147.74 points to finish 18th. They were 16th after the short program on Monday with a score of 61.22.The gold medal went to three-time world champions and former Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Sc

GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- South Korea's male curling team on Tuesday secured its third victory at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in a match against Switzerland, but still fell short of moving on to the semifinals.In the round robin match with Switzerland at the Gangneung Curling Centre, South Korea's four-member male team won 8-7, marking its third win at the 2018 Winter Games.The men's team had been clinging on to the dim hope of moving on to semifinals by beating Italy the previous day,

The flag of South Korea has been spotted in unexpected places by attentive watchers of the PyeongChang Winter Games, providing Koreans with a pleasant surprise. When Korean-American snowboarder Chloe Kim finished her competition in the women’s halfpipe on Feb. 13, the game which won her a gold medal, she was spotted shedding a tear with her parents by her side. (Yonhap)What caught the eyes of some spectators were not only her tears but also the delicately painted Korean flag settled on a fingern

GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- Three North Koreans will dress for the joint Korean female hockey team's last game against Sweden at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Tuesday.At least three out of 22 players in the lineup for each game here must be from North Korea, as per terms set by the International Olympic Committee for the combined team last month. And head coach Sarah Murray went with forwards Kim Un-hyang and Kim Hyang-mi, and defender Hwang Chung-gum. The puck drop for this seventh-plac

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- Local organizers of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Tuesday the women's alpine combined event has been rescheduled due to an adverse weather forecast.The organizers said the alpine combined -- which features one downhill run and one slalom run -- will be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Jeongseon Alpine Centre in Jeongseon, Gangwon Province. The event was originally slated for Friday, but due to a forecast of severe winds, the organizers said they decided to s

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- South Korea is aiming for the country's first gold in the men's speed skating team pursuit event Wednesday. The country's female curling team also will face off against the Olympic Athletes from Russia and Denmark. Lee Seung-hoon, Chung Jae-won, Kim Min-seok and Joo Hyong-jun will compete in the men's pursuit semifinals against New Zealand at Gangneung Oval. If they advance, they will face the winner between the Netherlands and Norway on the same day to vie for the co

GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- The first notes of Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” had just played when Gabriella Papadakis suddenly became aware that people were about to see a whole lot more of her shape than she had planned.The French ice dancer’s glittering emerald costume at the Olympics had come unhooked at the neckline and later in the routine her left breast was exposed live on television. When the clasp became unhooked, the 22-year-old Papadakis was more worried about holding up her outfit than m

PYEONGCHANG -- Korean bobsleigh pilot Won Yun-jong on Monday promised to up his game in the four-man event later this week, after coming up empty-handed in the two-man competition at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.Won and his brakeman, Seo Young-woo, posted a combined time of 3 minutes, 17.40 seconds after their four heats at Olympic Sliding Centre in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province, to finish sixth among 30 teams."We're regretful (of the result) since we've worked hard for eight years for this d

South Korean Cha Min-kyu clinched the silver medal in the men’s speedskating 500 meters Monday evening, finishing second by a whisker behind winner and world No. 1 Havard Lorentzen of Norway. Cha came in at 34.42 seconds -- 0.01 second behind the Norwegian -- at Gangneung Oval in Gangneung, one of two cities hosting the PyeongChang Winter Games. Cha’s teammates Kim Jun-ho and Mo Tae-bum clocked in at 35.01 and 35.154 for 12th and 16th, respectively.The bronze medal went to Gao Tingyu of China at

　Bobsleigh is an event in the Winter Olympic Games where a two-or four-person team drives a specially designed sled down an ice track, with the winning team completing the route with the fastest time.　For bobsleigh, the track length is 1,200 to 1,500 meters long with an average slope of 8 to 15 percent while the curve radius is minimum 20m. The bobsleigh reaches an average maximum speed of 135 kilometers per hour. 

GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- South Korea's male curling team, which has been performing sluggishly at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, posted its second win in its match against Italy on Monday.In the round robin match with Italy at the Gangneung Curling Center, South Korea's male team of Kim Chang-min, Seong Se-hyeon, Oh Eun-su and Lee Ki-bok won 8-6, marking its second victory at the 2018 Winter Games.The team posted its fifth loss the previous day when it was defeated by Denmark. South Korea had