1st Women tin USA to win Gold Medal Taekwondo
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 Texas TKD Athelete Madellon Luster Just Misses Olympics
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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Tokyo Olympics Will Take Place Under State of Emergency With No Spectators Watching
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 Sending Two Athletes to Tokyo 2021 Olympics: Skylar Park and Yvette Yong
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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Canadas Star in TKD Skylar Park is ready for the 2021 Olympics
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 pressure IOC to Ban Putin and Xi from the Olympics
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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Miami taekwondo champion Paige McPherson sets sights on making Olympic history in Tokyo
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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South Florida’s Aliyah Shipman Hoping to Bring Home Gold for Haiti in Olympics
Aliyah Shipman is an 18 year old TaeKwon-Do Star athlete from South Florida. She began studying TaeKwon-Do when she around 9 years old. Though shipman was born and raised in Plantation Florida, she wants to represent Haiti in this olympics. She is the only athlete that has qualified to compete in TaeKwon-Do during this olympics. Shipman…
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100,000 Masks Will Go To IOC
The president of the World Taekwondo Federation proposed on Wednesday to transfer 100,000 disposable surgical masks to the International Olympic committee (IOC). The masks were originally donated to the World Taekwondo Federation by Wuxi Sports Bureau and Jiangsu Wuxi Economic Development Zone, according to Chungwon Choue, federation president. In recent weeks, the epicenter of the COVID-19…
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WT Announces Changes to Events Calendar
The IOC, IPC, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Government of Japan announced on 30 March that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will take place on 23 July – 8 August 2021 and the Paralympic Games will follow on 24 August – 5 September 2021. As a result of the…
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