South Korean shooter Kim Jang-mi failed to defend her 25m pistol gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Tuesday.Kim finished ninth in the qualification rounds at Olympic Shooting Centre, unable to join the top eight that moved on to the final.Park Hae-mook/The Korea HeraldKim shot 582 points -- 288 points in the precision portion and 294 points in the rapid fire portion. She was tied in total points with Heidi Diethelm Gerber of Switzerland and Ekaterina Korshunova of Russia, but they hit

South Korean archers Lee Seung-yun and Chang Hye-jin cruised to the round of 16 in the men's and women's individual competitions at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Tuesday.Lee, who helped South Korea to the team gold medal Saturday, won both of his elimination matches at Sambodromo and will resume his gold medal quest on Friday.Park Hae-mook/The Korea HeraldLee, world No. 8, began the day by defeating Daniel Rezende Xavier of Brazil by the set score of 6-2 (28-22, 30-27, 27-28, 28-26).Each set co

Star-crossed South Korean handball player Kim On-a has been ruled out of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics with a shoulder injury.The Korean Olympic Committee said Tuesday Kim, one of the top offensive weapons on the women's team, will miss the rest of the Olympics with the injury suffered against Sweden on Monday.Park Hae-mook/The Korea HeraldSouth Korea will name Kim's replacement momentarily.South Korea lost that game 31-28, their second straight loss in the preliminary round. South Korea lost to R

Uli Stielike, the head coach of the South Korean senior national football squad, said Tuesday the Olympic football team should not settle for a draw against Mexico. South Korea will face Mexico at Mane Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia on Wednesday for their last Group C men's football match at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. South Korea lead the group with four points after beating Fiji 8-0 last Thursday and having a 3-3 draw with Germany on Sunday.Park Hae-mook/The Korea HeraldMexico, the 2012 Olympi

Michael Phelps will set his sights on a record-extending 20th Olympic swimming gold on Tuesday when he tries to wrest back the 200m butterfly title from Chad le Clos.Katie Ledecky will also be battling for another key swimming title on an Olympic day in which 14 golds will be up for grabs.Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time has already topped the podium in Rio after the USA's 4x100m win, and will now go for individual glory at the age of 31. United States` Michael Phelps competes in

Monday was barren day for South Korea at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, with a handful of medal contenders unable to deliver on expectations.With no medals won Monday, South Korea remained stuck at two gold, two silver and one bronze. The country has set out to grab at least 10 gold medals and finish in the top 10 in the medals table for the fourth consecutive Olympics.South Korea is now eighth in the medal standings. The U.S. led the medal standings for the second straight day with five golds, se

South Korea has fallen to Russia in women's volleyball at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, unable to contain the opponent's relentless attack in the late stage.After an early seesaw battle, Russia came out on top 3-1 (25-23, 23-25, 25-23, 25-14) at Maracanazinho on Monday for its second consecutive victory in Pool A.Park Hae-mook/The Korea HeraldSouth Korea, which defeated Japan to open the Olympics, dropped to 1-1. It will next face Argentina on Wednesday at the same venue.Neither team led by more

South Korean sailor Ha Jee-min has been coming to Rio de Janeiro for three years for competitions, and he remembers seeing debris floating in the polluted waters of the Brazilian city.But when he began his Olympic campaign Monday in the Laser event at Marina da Gloria -- the starting point for sailing events in Guanabara Bay -- Ha found the waters "very clean."Park Hae-mook/The Korea Herald"My first year here, the waters were extremely bad, and there were sofas in them," Ha said. "But they weren

An Byeong-hun, South Korean young gun on the European Tour, arrived in Rio de Janeiro, eyeing a medal in golf's long-awaited return to the Olympics."Now that I am wearing the national flag on my chest, this feels different than any other competition," An said at Galeao International Airport on Monday. "I must never taint the honor of the national flag."Park Hae-mook/The Korea HeraldAn, the 2015 European Tour Rookie of the Year, said his goal is to win a medal, "and a gold medal, while I am at it

With an eye on their second consecutive Olympic knockout berth, Korea arrived in Brasilia on Monday for their final group match at the Rio de Janeiro Games.Korea will face Mexico at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Mane Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia, some 1,200 kilometers northwest of Rio. Korea lead Group C with four points, after beating Fiji 8-0 last Thursday and having a 3-3 draw with Germany on Sunday.Park Hae-mook/The Korea HeraldMexico, the 2012 Olympic champions, also have four points, but Korea hold

Having bagged his first Olympic silver medal in Rio de Janeiro, South Korean judoka An Ba-ul said Monday he'll try to do one better at the next Olympics in Tokyo."My lifelong goal has been to win back-to-back gold medals in Rio and Tokyo," An said at a press conference at the Korea House for South Korean journalists. "I'll try to win gold in Tokyo four years later."Park Hae-mook/The Korea HeraldAn lost in the final of the men's 66kg event Sunday, with Fabio Basile of Italy upsetting the world No

Defending Olympic fencing champion Kim Ji-yeon suffered a shocking third-round loss at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Monday.Kim, the women's individual sabre gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics, lost to Loreta Gulotta of Italy 15-13 in the round of 16 at Carioca Arena 3.Park Hae-mook/The Korea HeraldKim went down 2-0 early in the bout before going ahead 9-5.Gulotta, though, ate into the deficit and made it an 11-11 tie.Then Gulotta scored three unanswered points to take a 14-11 lead. With