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Four sports from breakdancing to surfing suggested as official events at 2024 Paris Olympics
Baseball, softball and karate will not be part of the 2024 Olympics. There could be some new sports in their place. The Paris Olympic Organizing Committee wants to include sports climbing, skateboarding and surfing, which are all debuting at Tokyo 2020. They also want to add breakdancing to the list of events for ...
2019-02-22 14:30:10 KST -
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Long journey ahead for the two Koreas' joint teams aiming for Tokyo 2020
The two Koreas have agreed to field four unified teams at Tokyo 2020, but there are still plenty of hurdles to cross if they are to reach that goal. While the Koreas have decided to put together joint teams in women's basketball, women's field hockey, rowing and judo,… they'll still have to survive tough qualifyin...
2019-02-22 10:07:12 KST -
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Ministry of Sports announces investigation results surrounding Winter Olympic silver medalist curlers
A probe has revealed the truth behind the shocking allegations of abuse towards Korea's Winter Olympics women's curling team. The Sports Ministry and Korean Sport and Olympic Committee announced on Thursday. that Korea's women curlers who won silver at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics had to suffer from verbal and...
2019-02-21 14:49:24 KST -
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Winter Olympic silver medalist curlers endured abuse by coaches and owed prize money
The Sports Ministry and Korean Sport and Olympic Committee announced on Thursday that Korea's women curlers who won silver at PyeongChang 2018 endured abuse from their coaches and are yet to receive a large sum of prize money from their previous competitions. The joint probe team announced the results of their five-...
2019-02-21 10:16:37 KST -
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Taekwondo adopted as part of regular school curriculum in Honduras
Honduras has become the first Latin American country to add taekwondo to its public elementary school curriculum. According to the South Korean embassy there,… the martial art form has been adopted as a mandatory subject for students of that level. The classes, taught by local masters rather than Koreans, will be...
2019-02-21 04:32:03 KST -
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S. Korea kicks off largest ever National Winter Sports Games
The Sports and Olympic Committee is hosting the National Winter Sports Games from today until Friday. This year marks the event's one hundredth edition. Around four thousand athletes from seventeen cities and provinces will compete in eleven different sports, including skating, skiing and curling, making this the l...
2019-02-19 15:01:02 KST -
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Lightsaber combat officially recognised as sport
In the ring, colored sticks light up the dark and are used to attack opponents. Using lightsabers that not only light up but also make sounds like in the movies, Star War fans are acting out their Sci-Fi fantasies. (ENGLISH) "We have some very basic ones which are just with on-off buttons and with different ...
2019-02-19 09:27:06 KST -
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S. Korean group of taekwondo masters aim to become 'world's best'
A group of South Korean taekwondo masters are taking a U.S. talent show by storm. U.S. broadcasting company CBS recently launched a new global talent competition called 'The World's Best'. And Kukkiwon Taekwondo's performance group advanced to the second round as the highest scorer with a combined 99 points out of ...
2019-02-19 09:27:04 KST -
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'Lightsaber Dueling' recognized as official sports in France
The French fencing federation has officially recognized Lightsaber Dueling, involving the famed weapon from the Star Wars movie, as a competitive sport. The first player to win 15 points or whoever has the highest score after three minutes wins. Standing in a circle marked in tape, the players, holding their LED...
2019-02-19 07:12:31 KST -
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Koreas to field joint teams in 4 sports at 2020 Tokyo Olympics
The two Koreas are set to field their largest-ever joint athletic squads at the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. After a meeting with IOC president Thomas Bach in Switzerland on Friday,… representatives from the two Koreas agreed to form joint teams in 4 categories - women's basketball, women's field hockey,...
2019-02-16 08:48:31 KST -
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Meeting in Switzerland to decide joint Korean teams for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Sports chiefs from the two Koreas are meeting with IOC head Thomas Bach to discuss further inter-Korean sporting ties in the future. They are discussing the fielding of joint teams at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,… as well as a bid to co-host the 2032 Summer Olympics. On Thursday,… South Korean officials met sepa...
2019-02-15 18:03:48 KST -
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Two Koreas to propose unified teams for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
The two Koreas will announce which sports they will compete in as a joint team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this afternoon. South Korean Sports Minister Do Jong-hwan and his North Korean counterpart Kim Il-guk will meet with the chief of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, to discuss forming unified t...
2019-02-15 10:10:17 KST
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