PARIS (AP) — Panipak Wongpattanakit retired on a perfect note as she became the first Thai athlete in any sport to become a two-time Olympic champion on Wednesday. Wongpattanakit defended her Tokyo ...
PARIS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - South Korea's Kim Yu-jin won the Olympic gold medal in the women's taekwondo featherweight (under 57kg) division, swiftly beating Iran's Nahid Kiyanichandeh in a show of ...
The mislabelling touched a nerve in South Korea, where conflating Korean and Japanese cultural symbols is often viewed as ...
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(Reuters) - Taekwondo athletes from North and South Korea produced a stunning demonstration in Gangwon as sporting diplomacy took center stage alongside kicking, screaming and flying planks of wood on ...
PARIS — South Korea is back in force in taekwondo. After leaving the Tokyo Games without a single gold medal in the sport it invented, the East Asian nation claimed a second title in as many days at ...