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No person has done more for Taekwondo than Kim Un Yong. When he took over the newly formed World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) three decades ago, the Korean martial art was viewed as a crude form of Japan's karate. Today, millions practice the sport worldwide, and four years ago it...
44% Portion of athletes at this year's Summer Olympics who will be women, up from 38% at the 2000 Games
DIED. SHIRLEY STRICKLAND DE LA HUNTY, 78, the first woman to win consecutive Olympic titles, in 1948, '52 and '56, including three gold medals in sprinting and hurdling for Australia; in Perth. Also a mother and nuclear physicist, she chased rabbits while growing up on her family farm but took...
APPOINTED. DEL HARRIS, 66, former Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets coach; to lead China's national basketball team, the first foreigner chosen to do so; in Beijing. The Chinese squad, led by the U.S.-based National Basketball Association's All-Star Yao Ming, is expected to be a medal...
I liked his story on the sport of Extreme Ironing, described by its inventor, Phil ?Steam? Shaw of Leicester, England, as ?the latest outdoor activity that combines the thrill of an extreme sport with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt.? At the Extreme Ironing World Championships in Munich two...