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WTF_Presidents_2015_New_Yer_Message

Dear global taekwondo family,

The year 2014 has been a great year for the WTF for good reasons and the year ahead of us is shaping up to be an exciting one.

In 2014, we continued to work to grant our athletes more and better opportunities. Our World Taekwondo Grand Prix Series – giving athletes new fora in which to compete at the highest level, and even win a little prize money – matured, with tournaments taking place in Suzhou, China; Astana, Kazakhstan; and Manchester, the U.K. The 2014 Grand Prix Final took place in Queretaro, Mexico.

Queretaro was the location for another event designed to raise the public profile of our athletes: the first-ever WTF Gala Awards Dinner. The same city was the setting for our World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships, which saw some tag-team battles that will go down in the annals of our sport as among the most exciting ever fought.

The WTF endorses universality, and working on the principle that in our sport, “No Athlete is Left Behind,” we have been energetically promoting para-taekwondo. The 5thWTF World Para-Taekwondo Championships in Moscow, Russia were the best-ever.
The inaugural World Cadet Taekwondo Championships, which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, were also a huge success.

In December 2014, the IOC unanimously passed all 40 items that make up the “Olympic 2020 Agenda.” The WTF fully supports this roadmap for the future of the Olympic movement.

The year ahead of us is shaping up to be another exciting one for the WTF.
In 2015, our top event will be the World Taekwondo Championships in Chelyabinsk, Russia in May. As this will be the biggest event prior to the Rio 2016 Olympics, I eagerly anticipate some spectacular action. The championships will use the octagonal rings and the electronic headgear, which was first used at the Manchester Grand Prix Series in 2014.

We will see the 2015 Grand Prix Series take place in Moscow, Russia in August; Doha, Qatar in September; and in Manchester, the U.K. in October. The 2015 Grand Prix Final and the 2nd WTF Gala Awards Dinner will take place in Mexico City, Mexico in December.

We are also going all-out to place para-taekwondo on the official program of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. We will find out early in 2015 whether our application has been successful, so please cross your fingers. But regardless of that result, we are going to maintain our current dedicated focus on para-taekwondo, ensuring that ever more disabled athletes get the opportunity to take part.

Now I think the time has come for a major paradigm shift in how the WTF oversees, administers and promotes taekwondo.

After taking office in 2004, I had two chief aims. The first was to ensure fairness and transparency in referring, judging and administration. The second was to ensure that taekwondo was as exciting and dynamic as possible. I think



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