The Korean Olympic baseball team clinched a berth to the semifinal with a perfect record, beating Taiwan in its fifth win. In the fifth game of the seven round-robin games, Kang Min-ho¡¯s tie-breaking RBI single in the seventh inning gave the Korean team a 9-8 victory over Taiwan on Monday. The Korean team will advance to the semifinals regardless of the outcome of the two remaining matches against Cuba on Tuesday and the Netherlands on Wednesday. The last Olympic medal the Korean team won was a bronze in the 2000 Sydney Games.
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Korea¡¯s Lee Dae-ho hits an RBI double in the top of the second inning against Taiwan at the Wukesong Baseball Main Field on Monday. /Yonhap
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The men¡¯s table tennis team of Oh Sang-eun, Ryu Seung-min and Yoon Jae-young, won a bronze medal in the men¡¯s team competition by beating Austria, 3-1. In the final, China easily beat Germany to win the gold medal. China¡¯s table tennis women¡¯s team also won the day before.
Korea¡¯s men¡¯s handball team advanced to the quarterfinal despite a loss against Russia, 22-29 in the last game in Group B on Monday. With three wins and two losses, Korea came first in the group and will face Spain in the final eight on Wednesday.
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The Korean men¡¯s table tennis team -- Yoon Jae-young, Ryu Seung-min, Oh Sang-eun and coach Yoo Nam-kyu from left -- rejoice after winning a bronze medal after a match against Austria at the Peking University Gymnasium on Monday.
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Lee Jung-joon became the first Korean track and field athlete to advance to the second round in the men¡¯s 110-m hurdles with a time of 13:65. The second round will take place on Tuesday evening. Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang, who aimed at winning his second gold in the men¡¯s 110-m, presented a major anticlimax by withdrawing from the event, citing an Achilles injury in his right foot.
As of 8 a.m. Tuesday, South Korea was in seventh place in the medal count with eight gold, nine silver and six bronze medals. China leads by a large margin with 39 gold, 14 silver and 14 bronze medals, and the United States is in second with 22 gold, 24 silver and 26 bronze medals.
The United Kingdom is in third with 12 gold, seven silver and eight bronze, and Australia fourth with 11, 10 and 12. Germany is ranked fifth with nine, seven and seven, and Russia sixth with eight, 13 and 15.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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