LONDON - What price for a chance at Olympic glory? Four years of training. Hours upon hours of grueling workouts, painful sparring and a torturous fitness regimen. Diana Lopez had her shot at the ...

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 ...

Jonathan Healy won the U.S.’ first World Taekwondo Championship’s men’s heavyweight medal since 1987 — bronze — one year ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) — Having overcome so many hurdles, the disappointment was immense for refugee athlete Hadi Tiranvalipour as his dream of winning an Olympic medal was cut short when he lost in a taekwondo ...

One wore a veil, the other fought with her head bare. Nahid Kiyani Chandeh and Kimia Alizadeh were once friends and roommates as part of the junior Iran taekwondo team. Now an entire world separates ...

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.

Rebecca McGowan poses during a training session July 16 at the National Taekwondo Centre in Manchester, England. (Danny Lawson/PA) LOS ANGELES — Curious about which songs are fueling the Olympians ...

The 2025 World Taekwondo Championships came concluded in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on Oct 30, with 16 champions emerging after 681 matches. This year's competition was the largest in history, welcoming ...

Ryan Klonek plans to kick up his heels this weekend as part of the U.S. taekwondo team at the Pan American Championships. Now, Klonek is a black belt, one of three from the Sugar Land taekwondo ...

Alasan Ann rolled up his shorts to show a scar on the inside of his right thigh. This he calls his “golden leg,” the leg the Olympic taekwondo athlete from Maple Grove leads with in his fights. A lot ...