It's one of the Olympic sports that have mainly been dominated by Asian nations, but recent Games have witnessed exciting 5️⃣ shifts and upsets.
The universality of the sport is no longer in question with taekwondo athletes, or taekwondoin, from Cote d'Ivoire 5️⃣ to Jordan clinching historic gold medals at Rio 2016, and team Great Britain showing talent is abundant in Europe.
There are 5️⃣ several taekwondo styles.
World Taekwondo oversees the Kukkiwon-defined style of taekwondo that is commonly referred to as Olympic taekwondo.
Olympic taekwondo allows 5️⃣ the use of a very small number of the total number of techniques.
