On the eve of the London 2012 Olympics, the Korea Herald assessed the prospects for a taekwondo team that, four years earlier in Beijing, had won gold in all four of the events it was entitled to enter.

was in, having been adopted as an official sport of the 2000 Sydney Games at the 103rd IOC Session in Paris

At the Rio Olympics we didn't have a single protest.

Affairs as they called for an investigation into the search of their national ice hockey team at the Paris

The Belarus national team were reportedly subject to a thorough search by police in Paris yesterday,

Affairs confirmed they had summoned Canesse to a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Kravchenko to protest

“During the meeting, the Deputy Foreign Minister, Oleg Kravchenko, expressed a strong protest of the

Championship by representatives of French law enforcement bodies on May 3, 2017 at the railway station Paris

received an apology from tournament organisers ©Getty ImagesThere is currently heightened security in Paris

It is just after five o’clock in the morning when the hordes of Angelenos arrive at the iconic Memorial Coliseum, dressed in all sorts of weird and wonderful outfits.

spirit and smiles – smiles which have been absent from the faces of bid officials from Los Angeles, Paris

Atlanta 1996.As my colleague Nick Butler pointed out in his piece, it had hardly been a good week for Paris

While Los Angeles and Paris staged dawn parties and slogan reveals, the Hungarian capital remained quiet

Paris 2024 used their launch event to implicitly criticise Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the

“The romantic appeal of Paris is so self-evident we could never protest that – we think it is true and

Four-time Olympic athletics champion Sir Mo Farah has fiercely criticised United States President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order limiting immigration as the sports world seeks to understand possible consequences.

including two Syrian athletes at Rio 2016.This also comes as Los Angeles bids against Budapest and Paris

targets refugees" and "there is no evidence that this approach will improve national security".Activits protest

As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration as the 45th President of the United States, he might just have in mind another Ceremony seven years in the future.

"Their powerful silent protest at the 1968 Games was controversial but it woke folks up and created greater

First the IOC would have to choose Los Angeles over Budapest and Paris, and Trump must win another four

Two Mongolian wrestling coaches who removed their clothes in protest at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro

This was a protest, there was a problem with the refereeing," said Bayaraa at the time of the incident

Commission, with a full report set to be produced.Following the controversies, the UWW announced in Paris

Next Thursday on September 22 marks the 28th anniversary of what many believe, for all the controversies of Rio 2016, was the lowest point for boxing at the Olympics - the moment when a referee was attacked by home officials at the 1988 Games in Seoul after a decision had gone against a South Korean bantamweight, Byun Jong-il, who subsequently delayed the competition for more than an hour by occupying the ring.

Hamilton, who had to be treated for a badly cut hand.Once the ring had been cleared, Byun staged his own protest

Soo-In Oh, the vice-president of the Korean delegation lodged a formal protest against the judging of

impartial - and he may have had a point given the fact that he was Douglas’s father…At the 1924 Olympics in Paris

Major-General Douglas MacArthur prevented a United States protest withdrawal from the 1928 Olympic boxing

At Paris 1924, the decision of English refereee T H Walker to disqualify Guiseppi Oldani for persistent

As the Rio 2016 swimming programme got underway this weekend, the ripples were still spreading from the August 1 premiere airing at the Los Angeles Film Festival of The Last Gold.This is a documentary on the victory earned by the United States women’s 4x100 metre freestyle team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, against the East German athletes who otherwise swept the board at those Games through what we now know were illegal means.

big; they were now beating us by 25 meters in a 200-metre race.”In October 1973, an article in the Paris

Minister Malcolm Fraser, patron of the Australian Olympic Committee, to boycott the Moscow Games in protest

While Euro 2016 meanders towards a close, with the bloated tournament having never really sparked into life, the somewhat chaotic and always eventful Tour de France is set to compete for centre stage across the host nation.

With the current state of emergency in France following the Paris terrorist attacks in November, around

for the second tier Hors Classe (HC) status for 2017 season, rather than the top tier WorldTour, in protest

Paris' efforts to secure the hosting rights to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games have received support

As part of the agreement, a selection of Air France planes will display the Paris 2024 logo on 10,000

Millions of international tourists visit Paris each year and we are very proud of our status as a global

travel destination that has great cultural, artistic and sporting appeal," said Paris 2024 co-chairman

Our aim is to harness the enthusiasm and passion to see the Games come to Paris and ensure we deliver

it off early last week.The strike proposal had followed earlier walk outs between June 11 and 14 in protest

International Cycling Union (UCI) President Brian Cookson’s leadership has reportedly been criticised by European Cycling Union President David Lappartient in a letter detailing several key issues facing the sport.

informed the UCI in December that they would not register their road events to the top tier WorldTour in protest

at the reforms.Instead their events, such as the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix, would be registered

suspended the trial of disc brakes following an injury suffered by Spain’s Francisco Ventoso in the Paris-Roubaix

Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) President Giovanni Malagò has hit out at Virginia Raggi, the favourite to be elected the new Mayor of Rome, after she claimed a bid from the city to host the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics was "criminal".

According to the opinion polls, Raggi, a 37-year-old lawyer who represents the Five Star Protest

Sixty years ago, the city of Melbourne was making ready for the Olympics. It was the first time they had been staged in the Southern Hemisphere, but this sporting gathering did not include equestrian events.

These included Rio de Janeiro.Stockholm polled 25 votes ahead of Paris with 10.

It ran for less than two months, but still yielded 183,546 Swedish crowns.By the 1955 session in Paris

One horse had to be destroyed causing widespread protest.

Games 1920 Silver: Olympic Games 1924 An Olympic champion at Antwerp in 1920 and silver medallist at Paris

He arrived late for the pistol-shooting competition, but was saved from disqualification due to a protest

The magnificent Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens is where representatives of Rio de Janeiro will tomorrow formally take charge of the Olympic flame for 2016 after Greek rower Katerina Nikolaidou has lit a special golden cauldron to end a journey of 2,235 kilometres around Greece.

Renate Stecher and Heidi Rosendahl to represent the German cities of Berlin and Munich, Michel Jazy for Paris

policy in Tibet from the very outset when journalists from Reporters Without Borders unveiled a flag in protest