Olympic Taekwondo News

IT WAS only a month ago that the taekwondo squad knew for sure they would get to compete in the Laos SEA Games when the Olympic Coun-cil of Malaysia gave them the green light.

Darcy Kimmich, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Denver, competes in a taekwondo match, breaking cement bricks with her arm.

It has been a long process but I think I have finally forgiven Peter Bonetti. The mental scars of a 10 year old whose world has just ended take years to heal.

Taekwondo players chant "Nepal Ama Ko Jai" in a vibrant mood after their training session ends each day.

AMY Truesdale is bidding to be one of the first taekwondo fighters with a disability to taste Olympic glory.

The win earned her one of eight female spots on the first-ever under-24 USA National Team.

Alfred Jong, in red gear, lands a kick to Justin Schmoede's face in a Black Light 110-123 pounds category match.Star photo by SA©bastien Perth unknown An Olympic gold medalist was in town for the Taekwondo club of Whitecourt's twentieth annual tournament.

Silver medallist at Beijing Olympics Hoang Anh Tuan said he might retire from international competitions if he doesn't win a gold in the men's 56kg event at the Southeast Asian Games in Laos.

A 27-year-long friendship has brought two highly trained Taekwondo athletes for a visit to Drayton Valley.

David Crawforda s long-awaited report into Olympic funding yesterday created the sort of impact - and yelp of pain - in the corridors of the Australian Olympic Committee that Dean Lukina s 240kg-loaded barbell might have done had he dropped it on John Coatesa foot.

John Salamat is already planning the sequel. It will be a blaze of chops and flying kicks as he, playing himself, takes on this film's star, Kevin - a fourth degree black belt in taekwondo.

DORCHESTER'S Aaron Cook recorded the "greatest victory" of his career as he knocked out current World and former Olympic champion Steven Lopez in the final of the inaugural World Tour.

In a move to help bring Korea its first ever Winter Olympics in 2018, bidding officials in Pyeongchang, Gangwon, will seek the reinstatement of Lee Kun-hee, the former Samsung Group chairman whose membership at the International Olympic Committee remains suspended.

Golden sports stars . . . From left: Ricky Ponting, Matthew Mitcham, Dani Samuels and Simon Fairweather.

Three locals have been handed accolades for their ability to teach, guide and influence young athletes.

Gregory English of Chicago is a high school freshman who also studies taekwondo.

A SUITE of niche Olympic sports - including fencing, archery, wrestling and synchronised swimming - face the loss of government funding as part of a radical plan to forge a new era of global success.

Jessie Bates has an incurable habit of kicking. Jessie, formerly of Shiprock, picked up taekwondo a decade ago and 5,000 miles from home.

Jang Ji-Won, left, from South Korea is the Korean Featherweight champion and Kim Young Sun will give seminars during the Nov.

The 2015 Pan Am Games will be a huge benefit to grassroots sports organizations throughout the GTA, but it's not a panacea for all that ails amateur sports, officials say.