South Korean wheelchair fencer Cho Eun-hye won the women's individual epee B title by a single point Tuesday, earning the country's first fencing gold medal since the Asian Para Games began in 2010. Cho, 41, captain and oldest member of the South Korean women's fencing team, defeated Thailand's Saysunee Jana 15-14 in the final at Inae Sports Center in Nagoya at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games. Cho, who won bronze medals in the individual sabre B and women's team epee events at the 2022 Ha

The 2026 O-NE Superrace Championship, South Korea's premier motorsports series sponsored by CJ Logistics, will hold its final races of the season this weekend. Rounds 7 and 8 of the Toyota Gazoo Racing 6000 class, the championship's top category, will be held Oct. 24-25 at Everland Speedway in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, as part of the season finale titled "Golden Moments." Lee Chang-wook of Kumho SLM clinched the drivers' championship after winning Round 6, raising his total to 159 points and op

NEW YORK (AP) -- The first basket of LeBron James' career with the Philadelphia 76ers was a simple one. He took a feed from Joel Embiid in the paint and went up strong for an uncontested right-handed layup. Just two points. Just one bucket of what the Sixers expect to be many, many more over the next two seasons as James opened his record 24th NBA season on a milestone night in New York. Embiid appeared to wonder during the national anthem where the Knicks' championship banner was hanging in the

NBA teams that added star players in the offseason will challenge for the championship in the 2026-27 season. The NBA season opens Oct. 20 in the United States and begins a long 82-game regular-season schedule for each team. Several players capable of changing the championship picture joined new teams in the offseason, leading to expectations of greater parity across the league. LeBron James, born in 1984 and still playing at a high level as the NBA's oldest active player, left the Los Angeles L

With her latest victory in Denmark over the weekend, South Korean badminton star An Se-young set the record for the most international titles in the women's singles, the sport's international governing body said Monday. The Badminton World Federation announced on its social media that An's title at the Denmark Open on Sunday was her 47th international championship, one more than the former Indonesian star Susi Susanti. The BWF noted that titles in regional games are excluded and these records ha

Seo Chae-hyun, one of South Korea's leading sport climbers, won the women's lead title at the National Sports Festival for a fourth consecutive year. Seo, who represents Seoul City Hall and The North Face, finished first in the women's lead semifinal at the 107th National Sports Festival at Jeju Sports Complex on Saturday with a score of 34. She then won the final with a competition-best score of 54+. Seo won gold in the women's lead event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Oct. 3 and retur

South Korea women's national judo team coach Jung Sung-sook has offered to resign, taking responsibility for controversies involving a player's disqualification at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games and poor team management during travel to the world championships. Jung, 54, announced her intention to step down after returning through Incheon International Airport on Tuesday following the 2026 International Judo Federation World Championships. The controversy began in the women's 48-kilogram even

MIAMI (AP) -- A game-worn, autographed Michael Jordan road jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals has been privately sold for $14 million, an auction house announced Monday, calling it the highest price ever paid for a piece of basketball memorabilia. Pennsylvania-based Hunt Auctions announced the private treaty sale and identified the buyer as Miami real estate investor Ron Firman. The red jersey is the one Jordan wore in Game 2 of that series on June 5, 1998; he and the Chicago Bulls beat the Utah Ja

SHANGHAI (AFP) -- Men's tennis will have a new world No. 1 after Germany's Alexander Zverev secured the year-end top ranking Monday following Carlos Alcaraz's third-round loss in Shanghai. The career milestone will cap a stellar season for the 29-year-old, the current world No. 2, after he won the French Open in June and the US Open in September. The French Open was his first Grand Slam title. "It's been a fantastic season for me winning in Paris and New York and knowing that I will finish the y

The top South Korean sports organization said Wednesday it received a formal apology from the organizers of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games over a series of mishaps that occurred during the recently concluded competition. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee said the Asiad organizing committee sent a letter the previous day under the name of its chief, Hideaki Omura, to apologize for an incident during the medal ceremony for the men's football tournament Saturday at Toyota Stadium in Toyota, east o

GENEVA (AP) -- India and Qatar finally got some clarity on Tuesday for their long-held ambitions to host the 2036 Olympics. They are now in a formal contest with five other bidders, including one that would take the Summer Games for the first time to Africa. The International Olympic Committee set an Oct. 31 deadline for late arrivals to the contest. India and Qatar have long been seen as favored candidates in a hosting contest the IOC aims to decide in 2029 by a contested vote of its 100-plus m

Professor Seo Kyoung-duk of Sungshin Women‘s University has reported to the Olympic Council of Asia the display of the Rising Sun flag by spectators at a judo venue during the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. Seo said on social media Monday that some spectators unfurled Rising Sun flags while cheering during the judo mixed team final between Japan and Kazakhstan at Aichi International Arena in Nagoya on Oct. 3. A South Korean judo official who noticed the flag asked the organizing committee to tak

The South Korean women's national volleyball team has qualified for the 2027 FIVB World Cup, which will offer berths for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The International Volleyball Federation announced the 32 participating countries Sunday. South Korea earned a place based on its world ranking of No. 27 as of Friday. The FIVB previously renamed the World Championship, which had been held every four years through 2025, as the World Cup and decided to stage it every two years. It will be South Kor

Sixteen-year-old Lee Seung-hee, the youngest player on the women's professional billiards tour this season, pulled off an upset by defeating former tour champion Lim Jeong-sook of Crown Haitai to reach the round of 64. Lee advanced after drawing 17-17 with Lim in the LPBA round of 128 at the Crown Haitai PBA-LPBA Championship, the fourth event of the 2026-27 season, at KINTEX PBA Stadium in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, on Saturday. Lee won the tiebreak based on the higher run. Lee seized an early

For South Korea, the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games ended Sunday with a familiar result but a growing sense of unease. Korea finished third in the medal standings for a third consecutive Games, but its 39 gold medals fell short of the 40 to 45 it had targeted. More strikingly, the gap with Japan — the country it had hoped to close in the medal race — widened to its largest ever. China dominated with 169 golds, followed by host Japan with 83. Korea finished with 39 golds, 43 silvers and 68 bronzes, whi