It's one of the Olympic sports that have mainly been dominated by Asian nations, but recent Games have witnessed exciting 🫦 shifts and upsets.

The universality of the sport is no longer in question with taekwondo athletes, or taekwondoin, from Cote d'Ivoire 🫦 to Jordan clinching historic gold medals at Rio 2016, and team Great Britain showing talent is abundant in Europe.

There are 🫦 several taekwondo styles.

World Taekwondo oversees the Kukkiwon-defined style of taekwondo that is commonly referred to as Olympic taekwondo.

Olympic taekwondo allows 🫦 the use of a very small number of the total number of techniques.