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Irelands first Taekwondo Olympian Jack Woolley will need facial surgery after a brutal assault in Dublin City over the weekend. The athlete spoke about the incident on his instagram account to his followers stating that he was given some facial stitching temporarily and was awaiting plastic surgery. “I’ll be all right, I don’t want people…

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Spanish 17-year-old Adriana Cerezo Iglesias was defeated in a 7 second split by a two point strike from athlete Panipak Wongpattanakit.  In her first olympic bout she gained the gold medal and walked away as an olympic champion.

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Iranian refugee Kimi Alizadeh barely missed her chance to win the Refugee Team’s first ever Olympic medal in Tokyo during a tournament on Sunday. She lost her semi-final and bronze playoff to finish fourth.

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  The first ever US women gold medal .  Anastasija Zolotic is the 1st women in the US to women gold medal in Taekwondo.  Hopefully this win will boost the spirit of Taekwondo  in the US to become more popular combat sport compared to boxing and MMA.   Photo credit – Associated Press

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Local Waco Texas Athlete Madellon Luster came up short of Olympic Quarterfinals in qualifying tournament in Colorado.  Madellon started TaeKwonDo 11 years ago when she was 8 years old and has reach beyond her dreams at the start of her taekwondo journey. Since Madellon missed her chances at the Tokyo 2020 (2021) Olympics she is…

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In the latest update regarding the summer olympic games, the Japanese authority has recently announced that the Tokyo 2021 olympic games will go ahead under a state of emergency, and without any people watching the event at the capital city. The emergency will begin July 12 and last until August 22, but could possibly be lifted…

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Canada is sending two TaeKwon-Do athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games.  As previous reported on TaeKwon-Do Times, Skylar Park (22 Years old) and Yvette Yong (31 Years old) will be representing Canada, both for the first time competing in the Olympic Games. Yvette Yong posted to her facebook page on Friday confirming that she…

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Complex Magazine has recently interviewed Skylar Park from Winnipeg Canada.  In the interview Skylar comes off as a genuine 22 year old who is also a TaeKwon-Do Savage!   Here are some excerpts from the interview that was on Complex.com   When did this whole taekwondo journey start for you? For me, it started as…

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Activists are applying pressure for the IOC to ban the Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin from taking a place in the 2022 Winter Olympics. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) has a history of working with various dictators most notably the famous collaboration with Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Berlin Games. …

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In Miami a TaeKwon-Do Champion Paige McPherson sets her sights on the Gold medal in Tokyo 2021.  The 30 Year old, 140 lb welterweight won the Bronze Medal in 2012 Olympics and is the first ever woman to compete in 3 Olympics for the TaeKwon-Do Sport. “Her goal — to make three Olympics before age 30…

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