Team USA’s Steven Lopez goes for a fourth straight Olympic medal in taekwondo on Friday in Rio. The women’s 67kg and men’s 80kg welterweights are competing, with Lopez one of the favorites in latter.

Wednesday night saw two different taekwondo events come to an end, as the women's 49-kilogram and men's 58-kilogram medal matches unfolded. In taekwondo, fighters are well-protected with guards for ...

Taekwondo became an official Olympic sport just five Games ago in 2000, and while it’s protected on the Olympic docket until 2020, it’s not a given after then. The sport is facing pressure from the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Taekwondo is a Korean martial art that emphasizes kicking. Fully padded fighters compete to see who can land the most kicks. The head and body are legitimate targets and all ...

Australian sisters Caroline and Carmen Marton were able to secure their country berths at the Rio 2016 Olympic taekwondo competition after securing golds at the 2016 Oceania Qualification Tournament.

It just wouldn’t be an Olympics without Steven López. The taekwondo master – who has been referred to as “the Muhammad Ali of the mat” – is competing in his fifth Olympic Games, having won two golds ...

European Taekwondo Union (ETU) President Sakis Pragalos enjoyed his time at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after athletes from the continent won more medals than any other. Twelve medals were won by ...

Following taekwondo’s successful run at the Rio Olympic, the sport’s star athletes are gathering to close 2016’s event calendar with three consecutive top-tier events in Baku, Azerbaijan. On Dec. 9-10 ...

With the increasing popularity of UFC in the professional sports world, martial arts could be one of the highlights at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The United States has sent 10 athletes in total to compete ...

With the 2016 Olympics coming up, the whole world will be watching a bunch of sports you know nothing about. So, we're here to help! Today, we have Taekwondo is a martial art that involves a ton of ...

The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) has sponsored three teams suffering from limited financial means to Korea on the "Booyoung Taekwondo Dream Program" which is titled after WTF’s global partnership ...

For the third straight day on Friday, taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games from Rio de Janeiro handed out eight medals in two events, which were the women's 67 kilogram and men's 80 kilogram.