Taekwondo Competition of 1st Youth Olympic Games to Kick Off in Singapore on Aug. 15

. The taekwondo competition of the 2010 Youth Olympic Games, which will take place at the International Convention Center, will draw a total of 99 young taekwondo athletes from 66 countries. The participating 48 male and 51 female athletes, all born between Jan. 1, 1993 and Dec. 31, 1994, will compete for...

2010 WTF World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships Kick Off in Urumqi, China

. The invitational World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships, which take place at the Xinjiang Sports Center Gymnasium in downtown Urumqi, have attracted 19 male teams and 20 female teams. A total of 210 athletes, including 10 top-ranked players on the WTF Athlete Ranking, are attending this World Cup...

Taekwondo Classified as Optional Sport

. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) recently sent a letter to the World Taekwondo Federation on June 14, 2010 to inform the world’s taekwondo governing body of its decision to classify taekwondo as a category 2 sport. The CGF has three classifications of sports: core sports (Category 1), optional...

2010 WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships

. In a meeting with a WTF inspection team led by WTF Deputy Secretary General Manseek Choe on June 8, Mr. Botir Rakhmatovich Parpiev, president of the Uzbekistan Taekwondo Association and chairman of the State Tax Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan, expressed his appreciation to the WTF for the...

WTF President Proposes Creation of ‘Sport Peace Corps’ at UN-IOC Forum in Lausanne

. “The Sport Peace Corps entails provisions of comprehensive sport-related assistance to not only underdeveloped countries, but any U.N.-assigned areas,” WTF President Choue said in his presentation on the second day of the two-day forum at the Olympic Museum Auditorium of the IOC Headquarters. The forum...

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