Sweden's membership of the The European Taekwondo Union (ETU) has been revoked with immediate effect, it has been confirmed.

Mali's Ismael Coulibaly and Ivory Coast's Firmin Zokou, two medal winners from last year's World Taekwondo Championships in Chelyabinsk, are leading names competing at the African Olympic Qualification Tournament starting in Agadir City, Morocco tomorrow.

A World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) delegation led by the body's President Chungwon Choue has met with Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli in Kathmandu ahead of a visit to local refugee camps.

Refugee athlete Raheleh Asemani qualified for the Rio Olympics at the European Qualification Tournament in Istanbul today, while competing under the flag of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF).

Azerbaijan's Farida Azizova claimed the women's under 67kg honours at the European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Istanbul.

An exclusive media rights partnership between the European Taekwondo Union (ETU) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has been extended ahead of May's European Championships in Montreux.

A great thing about our job is how sometimes we find ourselves in situations which can only be described as utterly bizarre.

One such instance involved being invited to Damascus by a Syrian Olympic Committee official in a bid to show us how safe it supposedly was. “Come to Beirut and I will ask my friend, the President Assad, to send a car over the border…” we were urged in an invitation we are still yet to take up.

The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) are planning to rebrand themselves as World Taekwondo for marketing purposes, partly in order to avoid use of the well-known acronym, WTF.

A festive season of football and winter World Cups turned our attention briefly to sporting action this weekend before tainted normality resumed in the shape of a fresh glut of Sepp Blatter and Hein Verbruggen-themed scandals.

Several other stories also caught our attention in recent days, however, showing just how much sport has been affected by changes in science and technology.

The Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) is to be rolled out to orphanages, as well as refugee camps, in a bid to provide development and hope through sport, the initiative's founder Chungwon Choue has revealed.

Azerbaijan and China clinched the male and female titles at the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) World Cup Team Championships here today.

Poomsae taekwondo could feature at the inaugural Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach Games in San Diego in 2017, the sport's world governing body President Chungwon Choue has told insidethegames.

South Korea’s Lee Dae-Hoon won a second successive Male Athlete of the Year accolade in chaotic fashion at the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Gala Awards ceremony here this evening.

Burnaby in Canada has been awarded the 2016 World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) World Junior Championships at today's WTF Extraordinary Council meeting here following the withdrawal of a Turkish bid, insidethegames has been told, as the body announced a new five-point roadmap.