Top Korean women out of Olympics race
Reigning Olympic champion Chang Hyejin has been eliminated from the selection process for the Korean team for next year's international competitions, including the Tokyo Olympic Games, and will thus not be able to defend her title from Rio 2016.
The sequence of tournaments to make the Korean national team for an Olympics now begin almost a year prior to the Games, and not finishing in the top spots at each one means not being able to compete in the next.
Chang finished 22nd in the second round of squad selections in September 2019, in a phase where only 20 men and 20 women advanced to the next stage of competition. Ki Bo Bae, who won gold at London