From the streets of Dakar to qualifying for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Idrissa Keita's story is one of resilience, grit and unwavering determination to become this summer a Paralympic athlete.

France had one silver and two bronze medals on the first two days of the 2024 Judo Grand Slam in Antalya, Turkey, but they finished the tournament on a high note... and it was predictable.

Some of Britain's biggest track and field stars will be heading to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris this summer and Channel 4 cameras will be following their preparations and training. 

Grand Master René Bundeli, former member of the World Taekwondo Council and Honorary President of Swiss Taekwondo, has died at the age of 79.

Japan, Korea, Moldova and Austria each won a gold medal on the second day of the 2024 Judo Grand Slam in Antalya, Türkiye.

Japan and Canada were the two countries to win gold medals on the first day of the Judo Grand Slam Antalya 2024. Another gold medal was won by an individual neutral athlete.

It has been an action-packed start to 2024 for the Australian Taekwondo National Performance Pathways program and the tangible outcomes already appear promising, reports Taekwondo Australia.

The discipline "SAMBO for the Blind" (sport class SVI1) is included in the programme of the 2024 SAMBO World Championships, which will take place from 8 to 10 November in Astana, Kazakhstan. The decision was taken by the members of the Executive Committee of the International Sambo Federation in a vote on 27th March.

Rio 2016 bronze medallist Kimia Alizadeh has been introduced by the Bulgarian Taekwondo Federation as a new member of the Bulgarian national taekwondo team after representing the Refugee team from 2021.

The SAMBO World Cup will take place in Yerevan, Armenia from 4-5 April. The World Cup is a qualifying tournament where competitors can gain their first ranking points of the year. For combat sambists, it is one of the selection stages for the World Games, which will be held in Chengdu, China, from 7 to 17 August 2025.

From The 38th European Taekwon-Do Championships, the 29th European Junior Championships and the 1st European Pre-Junior Championships will be held in Lublin, Poland, from 17 to 21 April 2024. 

Donia Abu Taleb has become the first female taekwondo athlete from Saudi Arabia to qualify for the Olympic Games. She reached the final of the women's -49 kg category at the Asian Qualifying Tournament to book her place at Paris 2024.

Algeria won five Olympic berths in Greco-Roman wrestling, Nigeria dominated in women's wrestling and Egypt took four in men's freestyle wrestling at the African & Oceania Olympic Games Qualifiers held in Alexandria, Egypt from 22-24 March.

There were four Georgian athletes on the final day of the 2024 Judo Tbilisi Grand Slam, but only two represented their homeland. It was the last day of an interesting and intense event in the capital of the Caucasian country.