Olympics

TAEKWONDO ENTRY IN ATHENS 2004 EXPANDED TO 124

According to the letter of September 21 from IOC Sports Director Gilbert Felli, the IOC Executive Board agreed to increase the athletes quota for Taekwondo by 24 at its meeting of September 18-20 in Lausanne. Therefore, Taekwondo competition at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games shall be comprised of 124 athletes in 8 weight categories (4 male and 4 female weight categories).
The IOC will redevelop the invitation process for the Olympic Games, integrating the Tripartite Commission invitation places, wild cards and unqualified entries used in previous Games into a central system. Out of total 124 Taekwondo quota at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, the IOC requested that 4 places should be reserved for invitation places to be decided by the tripartite commission of IOC-IF-ANOC.

The meeting decided to maintain the total number of approximately 10,500 athletes in approximately 300 events for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and said it was necessary to strictly control the sport specific quotas in all sports, and in fact make quota reductions in several sports. Meanwhile, the WTF had proposed to the IOC to expand the Taekwondo quota at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games to 192 in respective six weight categories for male and female divisions.

2001 WORLD TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS WEB SITE OPENS

Official web site of the 15th (8th Women's) World Taekwondo Championships was opened. The site www.2001jejuwtc.org will be operated for a limited time from August to November 15, the Organizing Committee of the event announced on August 23.