Learn about the rules used for Olympic taekwondo, including how to win a match, ahead of the 2024 Paris Games.

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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, 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.

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 ...

Haby Niare of France, left, and Oh Hyeri of South Korea compete in a women's Taekwondo 67-kg final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew ...

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 ...