A familiar 3rd-place finish for S. Korea, but fewer golds and biggest gap with Japan

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…

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