[By NBC-1TV S. A Lee]Iran showed its supremacy in taekwondo as it clinched two gold medals and one silver medal on the third day of the 10th WTF World Junior Taekwondo Championships in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei on March 25, 2014.The Great Britain came next with two golds and one bronze, followed by Korea with one gold, one silver and three bronzes. Italy won one gold medal.The third-day competition, which takes place at the Taipei Arena in downtown Taipei City, featured six weight categories: the junior female 42kg, the junior female -52kg, the junior female -59kg, the junior male -45kg, the
[By NBC-1TV S. A Lee]The 10th WTF World Junior Taekwondo Championships kicked off in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei on March 23, 2014 for a four-day run.On the opening day, Azerbaijan took one gold and one bronze to top others in the overall medal tally, followed by the United States, Serbia Ukraine and China with one gold each. Italy came next with one silver and one bronze, while host Chinese Taipei clinched two bronzes.The biennial World Junior Championships, which takes place at the Taipei Arena in downtown Taipei City, have attracted a total of 793 athletes and 472 officials from a record 10
[By NBC-1TV S. A Lee]Choo Shinsoo, a Korean baseball player playing for the Texas Rangers in the American Major League Baseball, has been appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games.The 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee (IAGOC) has revealed the news on March 3, which marks the D-200 countdown to the opening of the 2014 Asian Games. “Choo Shinsoo is one of the most successful sportsmen from Korea and one of the most successful Asian players in the Major League Baseball. We believe he is an ideal star to promote the Asian Games to all the people in Asia, and we
[By NBC-1TV S. A Lee]March 3, 2014 is the 200-day mark to the opening of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games on September 19. To commemorate the occasion, the 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee (IAGOC) revealed a photograph of a body performance that formed “AG D-200”.The Seojung Dance, a creative dance troupe that finds inspiration from traditional Korean dance motifs, performed the body formation. Lee Mi-hee, the founder and artistic director of the Seojung Dance, was a choreographer for the opening ceremony of the 2005 Asian Athletics Championships in Incheon, and planned the body perfo
[By NBC-1TV S. A Lee]Russia clinched two gold medals on the fourth day of competition at the 9th World Junior Taekwondo Championships at the Sharm El Sheikh Covered Hall in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on April 7, 2012. Korea won one gold medal and one silver medal, while Jordan took home one gold medal. Iran, Chinese Taipei and France garnered one silver medal each. In the men’s -45kg category, Russia’s Boris Krasnov managed to brush aside a stiff challenge from Iran’s Seyed Abbas Sadeghi Tabari to win the final match 4-3 for the gold medal. The bronze went to Mexico’s Brandon Plaza Hernandez and t
[NBC-1TV]The 3rd WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships kicked off in a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, on Dec. 16, 2008, drawing 521 athletes and officials from 50 countries.The WTF-promoted poomsae championships, which take place at the ASKI Sport Hall, will continue until Dec. 18.It marked the first time that the poomsae championships took place outside Korea. The inaugural poomsae championships were held in Seoul, Korea in 2006, with the second event in Incheon, Korea in 2007.The opening day of the championships featured four events. Korea won three gold medals, while Spain clinched one gol