PARIS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Uzbekistan's Ulugbek Rashitov retained his men's Olympic taekwondo featherweight (-68kg) title on Thursday, beating Jordan's Zaid Kareem to the gold medal. Rashitov defeated ...

Taekwondo at the Olympic games will take place from Aug. 7 through Aug. 10, with a total of 128 athletes set to compete in ...

PARIS, 8 August (BelTA - Yonhap) - Park Tae-joon captured gold in the lightest division in men's taekwondo on Wednesday for South Korea's first title in its traditional martial at the Paris Olympics.

PARIS — CJ Nickolas waited 20 years for this moment. So on the eve of his taekwondo competition at the Paris Olympics, after slumbering for two weeks on a cardboard bed at the athletes village, the ...

A total of 128 athletes (64 men, 64 women) will compete in taekwondo. There are eight different weight classes contested at the Olympics, and each class will have 16 athletes competing. Each country ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It's a bitter grudge that has lasted for years: Aaron Cook vs. Britain. Born and raised in the U.K., Cook is now a citizen of Moldova and will be fighting for that country in the ...

This category admittedly has stiff competition, but is there a more excruciating sport at the Olympics and Paralympics than taekwondo? Even fair-weather viewers tuning in every four years are probably ...

PARIS — Having overcome so many hurdles, refugee athlete Hadi Tiranvalipour experienced immense disappointment Wednesday as his dream of winning an Olympic medal was cut short when he lost in a ...

PARIS (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion Jade Jones of Britain admitted Thursday she “made a mistake” when she failed to submit herself to an out-of-competition doping test last year. The taekwondo ...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Olympic taekwondo men's -80kg bronze medal match results in Beijing on Friday. Zhu Guo (China) beat Aaron Cook (Britain) 4-1 Steven Lopez (U.S.) beat Rashad Ahmadov(Azerbaijan) 3-2 ...