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Amy Truesdale and Ibrahima Seye have been given the honour of being added to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) online sticker album ahead of Para taekwondo's debut at Tokyo 2020.
Home Tokyo 2020 qualifier Shoko Ota hopes taekwondo's debut on the Paralympic programme will boost the profile of the sport in Japan.
India's Aruna Tanwar has set her sights on winning a medal at taekwondo's Paralympic debut after being awarded a place at the Games through the bipartite quota system.
Four-time world Para taekwondo champion Lisa Kjær Gjessing and three-time Paralympic athletics medallist Daniel Wagner will be the Danish flagbearers at the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony.
The news that Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) coach Parfait Hakizimana has been included in the first-ever Refugee Paralympic Team has been hailed by World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue.
Iran finished at the top of the medal table at the 2021 Asian Parataekwondo Championships with four gold medals in Beirut in Lebanon.
Taekwondo has been hailed as a "fantastic addition" to the Paralympic programme by Britain's Chef de Mission for Tokyo 2020 as the country picked its team for this year's Games.
American Para-taekwondo star Brianna Salinaro is looking ahead to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games with increased enthusiasm after undergoing surgeries on both of her hips.
Uzbekistan confirmed two more spots at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in taekwondo following the conclusion of the Asian Paralympic Qualification Tournament in Amman in Jordan.
Paralympic taekwondo qualifier Beth Munro has admitted she did not know Britain had a team before she booked her Tokyo 2020 place during her full debut.
Azerbaijan and Britain dominated the European taekwondo qualifier for the sport's Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020, sharing the six available berths between them.
World Para Taekwondo has begun a countdown of the sport's greatest moments to build anticipation ahead of its Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020.
More than 29 per cent of World Taekwondo members do not have any certified Para taekwondo coaches, making them ineligible to enter athletes in official competitions.
Two new members have been added to World Taekwondo's Ad-Hoc Para Taekwondo Poomsae Committee, including a new chair.
Taekwondo player Lisa Kjær Gjessing has been identified as being among Denmark’s big medal hopes for this year’s Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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