Karate is set to make its Olympic debut in Tokyo. The Olympic karate competition will begin on Wednesday, August 4 and conclude on Saturday, August 7 with all rounds of women's 61+kg and men's 75+kg ...

Sha'Carri Richardson made her long-awaited Olympic debut during the women's 100m preliminary round on Friday. Here's everything else you might have missed from Paris. Katie Ledecky became the most ...

Karate's debut as an Olympic sport brought some terrific athleticism, solid contact, and -- yes -- a whole lot of yelling to our screens and the Nippon Budokan. There was the kata, which did not ...

The president of the World Karate Federation, Antonio Espinós, is confident that the International Olympic Committee will include that martial art in the Olympic Program of the Los Angeles 2028 ...

Karate is debuting as an Olympic sport in Tokyo. From its roots in Okinawa when it was still known as the Ryukyu Kingdom between 1429 until 1879, karate spread to mainland Japan and later the ...

Karate: Iran vs France at 2018 Youth Olympic Games; Judo: Ukraine vs Belarus at European Youth Olympic Festival 2013; Taekwondo: France vs Turkey at Youth Olympic Games 2010 (Amilcar Orfait ...

Karate is one of the sports that have been added to the Olympics, and will appear for the first time in the Tokyo Games next year. Its popularity has surged following the inclusion, and an ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Karate - Men's +75kg Kumite - Pool A - Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - August 7, 2021. Ugur Aktas of Turkey in action against Daniyar Yuldashev of Kazakhstan. REUTERS/Ivan ...

They are scored on the difficulty, originality and execution of their tricks. Karate in the Olympics will consist of kata (forms) and kumite (sparring). A Karate practitioner is called a karateka.

AN EDINBURGH Napier student is hoping to make it to the next Olympics after a successful year of karate championships.

He said in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun in his hometown of Lviv in western Ukraine that the Olympic bronze medal he won in karate was bought by a Tokyo man, who now wants to return it to ...