South Korea finished 12th in the overall medal tally of the London Paralympics that came to an end in London on Sunday.South Korean Paralympians won a total of 27 medals -- nine gold, nine silver and nine bronze -- from the Aug. 29-Sept. 9 Paralympics.A total of 135 athletes and officials in eight sports, including sailing, archery, shooting and tablet tennis, participated in the 2012 Paralympics,

South Korea's top sports governing body said Wednesday that it has further reduced penalties on badminton players involved in a match-throwing scandal at the London Olympics.The Korea Olympic Committee (KOC) said that the four female players -- Jung Kyung-eun, Kim Ha-na, Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung -- will be suspended from international play for one year, removing an additional six-month domesti

LONDON (AP) ― Just hours after the close of the Olympics, a female shot putter from Belarus was stripped of her gold Monday in the first case of an athlete losing a medal for doping at the London Games.With the disqualification of Nadzeya Ostapchuk, the gold medal was awarded to Valerie Adams of New Zealand ― who winds up as Olympic champion for the second time in a row.The International Olympic Committee said Ostapchuk, a former world champion, tested positive for steroids both before and after

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ― The Olympic flag touched down on Brazilian soil on Monday, marking the start of four years of preparations ahead of the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro.Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes waved the five-ringed flag as he and other top officials disembarked from the flight that brought them back from London, where they attended the games’ closing ceremony on Sunday.Speaking at a packed news conference at Rio’s Tom Jobim international airport, Paes called it an “important moment” for Rio and

The International Olympic Committee’s suspension of a medal award to a South Korean footballer reverberates beyond sports to disputes on a touchy historical issue between Korea and Japan.Park Jong-woo of South Korea carried a banner handed to him by a spectator, which read “Dokdo is our land,” right after his team won the Olympic bronze medal match against Japan. The IOC raised an issue about his picketing and barred him from the medal ceremony, citing his violation of the Olympic charter which

LONDON -- Korean athletes wowed the crowd at the London Olympics with their medal-winning performances.But they also made headlines with other, at times less flattering, issues on and off the field.In the opening week, Korea found itself at the center of high-profile judging disputes. First, freestyle swimmer Park Tae-hwan, the 400-meter freestyle gold medalist from Beijing, was disqualified for a

LONDON  -- After the opening weekend of the London Olympics in late July, it seemed for a moment that Korea would have more difficulty meeting its gold medal target than anticipated.But the country's athletes saw to it that the mission, which was to win at least 10 gold medals for a top-10 finish in the medal table, would be accomplished -- with relative ease, it turned out.At this year's Summer O