LONDON - What price for a chance at Olympic glory? Four years of training. Hours upon hours of grueling workouts, painful sparring and a torturous fitness regimen. Diana Lopez had her shot at the ...

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 (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 — 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 ...

Ahmad Abughaush not only got that unprecedented hardware, he made it a gold one by triumphing in the men’s 68kg taekwondo event. Abughaush defeated Russia’s Alexey Denisenko in what was a taut affair ...

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.