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, 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 — 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 ...

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, 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.

PARIS — Having overcome so many hurdles, refugee athlete Hadi Tiranvalipour experienced immense disappointment Wednesday as his dream of winning an Olympic medal was cut short when he lost in a ...