GANGNEUNG -- Korea's women's curling team on Tuesday extended its winning streak to five games and captured a ticket to the semifinals for the first time at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.Korea rallied for a comeback win to beat the United States 9-6 in the round-robin preliminaries at the Gangneung Curling Center.Korea`s women`s curling team high-fives after winning a round-robin match against the United States at the Gangneung Curling Center during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Feb. 20,

There was something odd about the way the South Korean female skaters performed in the 500-meter team pursuit quarterfinals event at PyeongChang on Monday. 　　The three-member team -- Kim Bo-reum, Noh Seon-yeong and Park Ji-woo -- looked almost as if they were competing in an individual race, not a team pursuit. When Noh Seon-yeong, one of the team members, fell a long way behind during the race, the remaining two skaters -- Park and Kim -- left her behind and crossed the finish line without her.

Unified Korean female hockey team ends competition

Skip Kim Eun-jeong of the South Korean curling team, also known as “Annie,” sparked a torrent of online comments Tuesday, as multiple pictures of her standing next to a mystery man circulated via online communities.   (Screen capture from social media)In the pictures, Kim appears ecstatic and all smiles. She is seen holding hands with a broad-shouldered man. Curious fans commented beneath the post trying to figure out the man’s identity. Playing detective, one fan has speculated the man is surna

PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- South Korean freestyle skier Lee Kang-bok failed to reach the finals of the men's ski halfpipe at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Tuesday.Lee finished last among 27 skiers with a score of 13.00 points and failed to advance to the final round, which is open only to the top 12 competitors. The qualification round has two runs and only the best run counts. Lee had only 5.8 points in his first run at Phoenix Snow Park in PyeongChang, 180 kilometers east of Seoul,

With five days left of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Korea’s teams are faring well overall, most recently gaining two more silver medals.Korea’s ace female speedskater Lee Sang-hwa won her third Olympic medal on Sunday in the women’s 500-meter event wrought with emotion. Claiming the silver, Lee fell just short of pulling off a three-time consecutive Olympic gold streak but received thunderous support from the crowd.Cha Min-kyu clinched a surprise silver in men’s speedskating 500 on Monday, c

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