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Sharpshooting Koreans take aim at golden harvest

By Reuters In Seoul | China Daily | Updated: 2016-07-27 07:28

The standing joke in South Korean sport is that it's harder to get a spot on the women's Olympic archery team than to win a gold medal.

But for rivals tasked with ending a streak that goes back to the 1988 Seoul Games, that dominance is no laughing matter.

Archery has been a gold mine for Korea since the sport returned to the Olympics in its modern format at the 1972 Munich Games.

Sharpshooting Koreans take aim at golden harvest

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