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Full List of Taekwondo Athletes Bound for Rio 2016 Olympic Games Released

List includes 8 former gold medalists and seven nations making Olympic taekwondo debut (August 5, 2016) – The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) today released the full list of 128 athletes from a record-equaling 63 nations who will be competing in the Rio 2016 Olympic ...

Rio Preview: Weight Category Analyses M+80kg: Clash of the Titans

(July 29, 2016) – It is a perennial truth among combat sports: Be it boxing or be it mixed martial arts, the media and the punditry are always focused on the male heavyweights.  And so it is with taekwondo – but in taekwondo, the Male +80kg category is a category...

Rio Preview: Weight Category Analyses F+67kg: Long Legs vs. Long Experience

(July 21, 2016) – In this category, it is feasible to categorize the athletes into three broad categories: height; experience; and speed. China’s towering Shuyin Zheng won top ranking in the category after winning gold at the 2015 Grand Prix Final in Mexico City. Z...

Rio Preview: Weight Category Analyses M-80kg: Taekwondo's Most Storied Fighters Face Off

(July 15, 2016) – This category may just be the most exciting of the Rio Olympics: All the top players have very special stories to tell. The top-ranked player in the category is Iran’s Mahdi Khodabakhshi. Although he has only been playing at the highest level ...

Rio Preview: Weight Category Analyses F-67kg: Will ‘The Abigator’ Seize the Vacant Title?

(July 7, 2016)- With the winner of this category at the 2012 London Olympics, Korea’s Kyungseon Hwang, no longer in contention, the title is vacant as Rio 2016 looms. The category is fiercely competitive, with many semi- and final matches going to golden point, but there ...