Korea lose but still make last four
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South Korea squeezed through to the semi-finals despite losing the final Division 1 Group B tie 3-2 to Denmark at the Sudirman Cup World Team Championships on Wednesday.
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France finally won its game of brinkmanship. Teetering on the edge of another embarrassing first-round elimination from the World Cup, the 1998 champion beat Togo 2-0 on Friday to advance to the final 16 for a game against Spain.
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While it didn't produce as much hand-wringing as did the men's shortfall in Japan earlier this month, the US women's basketball team's semifinal loss last week at the World Championships in Brazil was far more startling. The men, after all, had been sixth in 2002 and third at the Olympics. The women not only hadn't been beaten at the global ...
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Forget that impressive showing against Brazil. Croatia couldn&#039;t find the net again Sunday and even missed a penalty kick in a 0-0 tie with Japan that endangered both teams&#039; stays at the World Cup.
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South Korea's Seon Hwa Lee held off ADT Championship winner Julieta Granada 2 and 1 in the deciding match Sunday to give Asia a 12 1/2-11 1/2 victory over the International team in the Lexus Cup.
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South Korea surged up the medals table thanks to their short-track speed skating champions but China still dominated the Asian Winter Games with four new titles.
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The satisfaction of knowing they should have won gymnastics gold might be all the South Koreans get. While the country&#39;s Olympic team met with lawyers Sunday to plan its appeal over the medal given to American
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China has been denied a second straight trip to the World Cup finals despite a 7-0 victory over Hong Kong, failing to advance in qualifying when Kuwait won Asia&#39;s Group Four by one goal.
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The United States rolled into the World Cup quarter-finals on Tuesday to remain on track for a third title as Asia&#39;s top team North Korea lost but still scraped through for the first time ever.
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GRAND FORKS, North Dakota -- And so the freefall continues for Team USA. Roughly 24 hours after losing to Belarus and missing an opportunity to clinch top spot in Group A, the United States slipped from first
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When a day of drama had ended and the quarterfinal pairings were set, the news was not great for the United States. In order to get to the semifinals and possibly the gold medal game, first the Americans will have to defeat Spain &#151; the team that left the widest wake of impressed and defeated opponents during the preliminary round.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. SEOUL, Korea (North) -- A group of 29 people claming to be North Koreans entered a school for South Koreans
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STUTTGART, Germany  - China outclassed their rivals easily to retain their men's team title at the world gymnastics championships on Thursday.
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Kuwait secured top spot in Group Four and a place in the final round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup 2006 by the narrowest of margins.
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Favorites the Netherlands failed to   qualify for the semi-finals of the hockey World Cup on   Wednesday after hosts Germany and South Korea played out a dull   0-0 draw to secure their passage to the last four.
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For some of this yearâs Davis Cup teams, like Israelâs and South Koreaâs, the wait to rejoin the World Group has often seemed interminable. But the Americans cannot quite believe they are being asked to play again so soon.
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Thessaloniki, Greece (Sports Network) - The United States women&#39;s soccer team advanced to the final four of the Olympics with a narrow 2-1 victory over Japan Friday.