Tae Kwon Do News

Michael Harvey was kicking himself after bowing out of taekwondo's under-58kg category.

Taekwondo kicked up a storm of complaints against referees and judges at the Olympic Games on Wednesday as Canadian Ivett Gonda claimed she was robbed after losing her opening match.

Guillermo Perez of Mexico and China's Wu Jingyu won taekwondo gold medals on Wednesday at the Olympics.

Boards are still on sale for Friday's unique fundraiser in Moncton, which will feature a local tae kwon do master attempting to break 1,000 boards in 10 minutes.

BEIJING : China's world champion Wu Jingyu advanced to the final Wednesday in the women's under 49-kilogram taekwondo competition and Athens gold medalist Chu Mu-yen of Taiwan, favored in the men's 58-kilogram ...

Coach claims unfair judging in Gonda loss Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Canada's Ivett Gonda goes head-to-head with Hanna Zajc of Sweden.

BEIJING : Chutchawal Khaolaor looks to be Thailand's best bet in taekwondo while Chonnapas Premwaew and Buttree Puedpong face tough opponents in their opening bouts after the draw was made yesterday.

In his weekly feature, copy editor Ron Davis poses five questions to David M. Askinas, chief executive officer of USA Taekwondo, who is in Beijing with the American tae kwon do team for the Olympics.

Many sports teams select their uniforms based on the mascot, city or country they are representing, not on a referee's preference or bias.

SebastiA©n Michaud and Karine Sergerie during the Manchester, England qualifications.

Puya Rahmanian was awarded his first-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do by Master Eun, left, of Eun's Martial Arts Center, Farragut, July 15.

Few American sports fans know the names of Mark, Steven, and Diana Lopez, and even fewer know Nisar Ahmad Bahawe or Chen Zhong.

Inside a nondescript and hard-to-navigate business complex near Haven Avenue, there are fighting champions in the making.

Having inspired the international fashion world's name for bikini, the Marshall Islands will now join the international sporting world, competing for the first time in the Olympics.

Houston's Nia Abdallah won a silver medal in the 2004 Olympics. At the U.S. trials that year, Abdallah defeated Diana Lopez in overtime of the championship match to earn the spot in Athens.

Politics has the Kennedys, music has the Osmonds, and the Olympics has the Lopezes.

Canada's athletes came out of the Athens Olympic Games looking like Napoleon's bedraggled soldiers returning from Russia.

The Almaville FCE Club met July 2, at Lock's Memorial United Methodist Church. Vice president Pauline Arnold conducted the meeting in the absence of President Jean Wilson, who is recovering from broken ankles.

Sounds of feet kicking and arms slicing through the air fill the practice room at Lee's Martial Arts Academy in Tempe.

Sibling rivalry is normal, even expected. But throw in two sisters who are black belts in tae kwon do, and it has the potential to turn ugly.