University of Essex provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The new discipline joins para judo and wheelchair fencing in the combat sports roster, but because of the way points are scored ...

Uzbekistan's Ulugbek Rashitov retained his men's Olympic taekwondo featherweight title on Thursday, Aug. 8, beating Jordan's Zaid Kareem to the gold medal. Rashitov defeated Kareem in two rounds, ...

PARIS (AP) — Panipak Wongpattanakit retired on a perfect note as she became the first Thai athlete in any sport to become a two-time Olympic champion on Wednesday. Wongpattanakit defended her Tokyo ...

The Korean traditional martial art of taekwondo has adopted a series of new rules for next month's Rio de Janeiro Olympics designed to bring more transparency and excitement to the event. The ...