Olympics-Taekwondo-Lee's last-second win keeps South Korea's hopes of gold alive

[ASFN Admin]

Losing with one second left, South Korea's Lee Dabin turned the tables on Britain's Bianca Walkden on Tuesday to reach the final of the women's taekwondo +67kg category, giving her country its last chance of winning an elusive Tokyo 2020 gold. South Korea has won at least one taekwondo gold at every Summer Games since the sport became a full-medal Olympic event in 2000. Lee's last-ditch head-kick ended world number one Walkden's own dreams of finishing top of the podium, which had seemed to come closer after defending Olympic champion Zheng Shuyin from China lost in the quarter-final.

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