[html] The South Korean Women have defeated Japan 34-21 to directly qualify for the 2008 Olympics.  Japan will take part in one of the Olympic Qualification tournaments.  The exact composition for the 3 Olympic Qualification tournaments is TBD.  The IHF had swapped out the 2nd place African and Asian teams previously and there now is no 3rd place Asian team.  More background on the placement of teams is at http://teamhandballnews.com/page18.html

Korea Yonhap News Service Article:
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/culturesports/2008/01/29/27/0702000000AEN20080129007900315F.HTML

IHF Article: http://www.ihf.info/front_content.php?idcat=57&idart=1014

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