It's one of the Olympic sports that have mainly been dominated by Asian nations, but recent Games have witnessed exciting 🛡 shifts and upsets.
The universality of the sport is no longer in question with taekwondo athletes, or taekwondoin, from Cote d'Ivoire 🛡 to Jordan clinching historic gold medals at Rio 2016, and team Great Britain showing talent is abundant in Europe.
There are 🛡 several taekwondo styles.
World Taekwondo oversees the Kukkiwon-defined style of taekwondo that is commonly referred to as Olympic taekwondo.
Olympic taekwondo allows 🛡 the use of a very small number of the total number of techniques.