Archery: Gold medal for South Korean Oh
Oh Jin-hyek ended South Korea's long wait for a men's individual Olympic title with a stunning display to defeat Japan's Takaharu Furukawa 7-1 in the final at Lord's.
Oh Jin-hyek ended South Korea's long wait for a men's individual Olympic title with a stunning display to defeat Japan's Takaharu Furukawa 7-1 in the final at Lord's.
Ki Bo Bae has returned the women's archery gold to South Korea after edging a one-arrow shoot-off with Mexico's Aida Roman at Lord's.
South Korea maintained their remarkable record in women's team archery, winning a seventh consecutive Olympic gold at Lord's.
Italy claimed a shock gold in the men's archery team event at Lord's as Michele Frangilli held his nerve to hit a 10 with the last arrow of the final against the United States.
South Korea's Im Dong-Hyun broke his own 72-arrow world record in the archery ranking round for the London Olympic Games with a score of 699 on Friday.
South Korean archer Im Dong-hyun is so accurate with the bow he could probably hit a bulls-eye from 70 metres away with his eyes closed.
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At the Paralympic games in Beijing today, the Irish seven-a-side football team have drawn 1-1 with Britain.
Sean Heary from Navan, who qualified in 20th, is through to the quarter-finals of the archery competition after pulling off a surprise 113-112 victory over Korea's Sung Kil Go.
China's Zhang Juan Juan ended South Korea's streak of winning every women's Olympic archery gold medal since 1984 when she took the individual title on Thursday.
Nothing was going to stand between South Korea and a sixth consecutive Olympic archery team title.
Athens Olympic champion Park Sung-hyun came within a whisker of perfection on Sunday, breaking the world record in the women's archery quarter-finals.
The sport of archery dates back to ancient times. The first recorded archery contest of more recent times was staged in Finsbury, England, in 1583.
The Beijing Olympics could mark the beginning of the end for South Korea's archery dynasty.
China, Taiwan, Russia, Britain and Italy are catching up with the champions in recent times, but will need to perform above their potential to stop the Korean juggernaut
South Korea's trio of record-breaking archers made up for poor solo performances at the Olympics to win the men's team gold medal on Saturday, giving their country three of the four archery titles.
Italy's Marco Galiazzo exploited South Korea's stunning disarray in the men's individual archery on today to win the Olympic gold medal in a tense Athens final against Hiroshi Yamamoto of Japan.
South Korea won a sixth straight Olympic gold medal in the women's individual archery when South Korea's Park Sung-hyun defeated compatriot Lee Sung-jin 110-108 in the final.
South Korea archers celebrated setting the first world records of the Athens Olympics today.
Double Olympic Archery gold medallist Justin Huish has quit the U.S. Olympic team.