September 1 1 day to 16, 2023: track and field, swimming, gymnastics, shooting, basketball, boxing, taekwondo, cycling, rowing, water polo, volleyball, football, tennis, softball and hockey.
Introduction to Taekwondo:
Taekwondo (Korean:, English: Taek Won Do) is one of the official events of the modern Olympic Games, and it is a sport that mainly uses hands and feet for fighting or confrontation. Taekwondo originated in the Korean peninsula, evolved from Taekwondo and Hualang Road in the Three Kingdoms period in South Korea, and is a popular martial art in South Korea.
The word Taekwondo was named by South Korean General Cui Hongxi in 1955. When General Cui Hongxi was studying in Japan in his early years, he studied karate at Songtao Hall in Japan and integrated it with Korean traditional martial arts such as kicking and fighting into Taekwondo. Modern Taekwondo is one of the martial arts sports originated in South Korea, which combines the skills of contemporary East Asian martial arts.
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art developed from East Asian culture, based on the martial spirit of "starting with ceremony and ending with ceremony". Its footwork accounts for 70%. 25 sets of taekwondo routines; In addition, there are weapons, capture, lock and fall, self-defense and anti-disassembly, and so on 10.
Taekwondo was established as a demonstration project during the 1988 Seoul (now Seoul) Olympic Games. The first test match was 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games; By the year 2000, the Sydney Olympic Games will become an official event. Taekwondo has become an Olympic sport. As a health sports and humanities education project, it has developed into a worldwide martial arts sport with 80 million people from 203 countries.
Before Taekwondo was officially named, there were many schools of unarmed combat in Korea. The names also include Taekwondo heel, hand racket, Tang hand, shoulder brace, flower wave road and so on. Since 1950s, its connotation, style and name have been standardized and unified. The word "Taekwondo" was coined by South Korean general Cui Hongxi in 1955. After he retired from the army, he integrated folk elements into Taekwondo and finally took shape.