Sun-Young Yoo, also of South Korea, took the Kraft Nabisco Championship, while China's Shanshan Feng won June's LPGA Championship.

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Germany's Sandra Gal claimed third ahead of South Korea's Ilhee Lee, LPGA Championship winner Shanshan Feng of China and Italy's Giulia Sergas in fourth equal.

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Bolt has now won seven out of eight of the major athletics competitions, only missing out on a World Championship 100m title in South Korea due to a false start.

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Referees were put through an anticorruption boot camp in March, and perhaps feeling the pressure to show results, China's national team in February scored a shocking 3-0 victory over Korea in the East Asian Men's Soccer Championship in Tokyo.

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For Blake, who recorded the year's leading time over 200m and a personal best in Friday's 100m, it marks another significant step in his rise to prominence after clinching World Championship 100m gold in Daegu, South Korea last year, after Bolt was disqualified from the final after a false start.

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Around 1.5 million households, or about 10% of cable subscribers in South Korea, watched South Korean Shin Ji-yai beat Paula Creamer in playoff at the Kingsmill Championship in Williamsburg, Va.

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