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Taekwondo At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 57 Kg
The women's 57 kg competition in Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 8 August 2024 at the Grand Palais. Summary This is the seventh appearance of the women's 57kg event. Anastasija Zolotic failed to qualify, and Tatiana Minina failed to qualify because the IOC did not claim her neutral. Instead, Dominika Hronová took her spot and lost to the eventual bronze medalist Skylar Park. One of the bronze medalists Lo Chia-ling lost to Laetitia Aoun, and Hatice Kübra İlgün lost to eventual champion Kim Yu-jin. Later, Ilgün advanced to repechages losing to Skylar Park. Results Gold medal match Repechage Main bracket Pool A Pool B Kimia Alizadeh vs Nahid Kiani In a rematch of their bout from the 2020 Summer Olympics where Kimia Alizadeh was the victor, Nahid Kiani narrowly defeated Alizadeh in the 2024 bout on 8 August 2024.https://iranwire.com/en/sports/132704-two-friends-make-olympics-history-for-iran-and-bulgaria/ Alizadeh eventually won bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Grand Palais
The (; ), commonly known as the , is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine, France. Construction of the began in 1897 following the demolition of the Palais de l'Industrie (Palace of Industry) to prepare for the Exposition Universelle (1900), Universal Exposition of 1900. That exposition also produced the adjacent and Pont Alexandre III. The building was designed to be a large-scale venue for official artistic events. A pediment on the building refers to this function with an inscription that reads, "a monument dedicated by the Republic to the glory of French art." Designed according to Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts tastes, the building features ornate stone facades, glass vaults and period innovations that included iron and Steel frame, light steel framing and reinforced concrete. It is listed as a historic monument () by the Ministry of Culture (France), Ministry of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stacey Hymer
Stacey Hymer (born 2 July 1999) is a Taekwondo athlete from Australia. Career Hymer was a fourth year Bachelor of Science student at RMIT University, when she was to compete in the 57 kg class Taekwondo at the Tokyo Olympics. She had previously won a gold medal at the 2018 Oceania Championships, and bronze medals at the 2019 French Open, 2019 Korean Open, and 2020 Dutch Open. Hymer qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics where she competed in the women's 57 kg class. She was leading world number 3 Skylar Park 12–6 before being overhauled by her opponent 25–15. She competed in the women's featherweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships The 2022 World Taekwondo Championships was the 25th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships and was held at the Centro Acuático CODE Metropolitano, in Guadalajara, Mexico from 13 to 20 November 2022. It was at first scheduled to be held in W ... held in Guadalajara, Mexico. References External links * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Censorship In Iran
In Iran, censorship was ranked among the world's most extreme in 2024. Reporters Without Borders ranked Iran 176 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index, which ranks countries based on the level of freedom of the press. Reporters Without Borders described Iran as “one of the world’s five biggest prisons for media personnel" in the 40 years since the revolution. In the Freedom House Index, Iran scored low on political rights and civil liberties and has been classified as 'not free.' Iran has strict regulations when it comes to internet censorship. The Iranian government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps persistently block social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram along with many popular websites such as Blogger, HBO, YouTube, and Netflix. Despite the state-wide ban, some Iranian politicians use social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, to communicate with their followers. Internet censorship in Iran functions similarly to the Great Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Islamic Republic Of Iran Broadcasting
The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB; ) or Seda va Sima () for short, formerly called National Iranian Radio and Television until the Iranian revolution of 1979, is an Iranian state-controlled media corporation that holds a monopoly of domestic radio and television services in Iran. It is also among the largest media organizations in Asia and the Pacific region and a regular member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. Its head is appointed directly by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. With 13,000 employees and branches in 20 countries worldwide, including Italy, France, Belgium, Guyana, Malaysia, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting offers both domestic and foreign radio and television services, broadcasting 12 domestic television channels, four international news television channels, six satellite television channels for international audiences, and 30 provincial television channels countrywid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. Rio de Janeiro was announced as the host city at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009. 11,238 athletes from 207 nations took part in the 2016 Games, including first-time entrants Kosovo at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Kosovo, South Sudan at the 2016 Summer Olympics, South Sudan, and the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Refugee Olympic Team. With 306 sets of medals, the Games featured 28 Olympic sports, including rugby sevens and golf, which were added to the Olympic program in 2009. These sporting events took place at 33 venues in the host city and at five separate venues in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Bahia, Salvador, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Iran At The 2016 Summer Olympics
Iran (officially the Islamic Republic of Iran) competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's return in Iran at the 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948 after having made their debut in Iran at the 1900 Summer Olympics, 1900, Iranian athletes had attended in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, with the exception of the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, 1984 Summer Olympics. The National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran fielded a team of 63 athletes, 54 men and 9 women, across 15 sports at the Games. It was the nation's second-largest delegation sent to the Olympics, and featured Iran's highest female participation in history. Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, Men's volleyball was the only team-based sport in which Iran was represented at the Games, the nation's Olympic debut. Wrestling accounted for the largest number of athletes by an individual-base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo was selected as the List of Olympic Games host cities, host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 7 September 2013. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Tokyo Games were postponed until 2021 on 24 March 2020 as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the first such instance in the history of the Olympic Games (some previous editions had been cancelled but not rescheduled). However, the Tokyo 2020 branding was retained for marketing purposes.Multiple sources: * * * The events were largely held Behind closed doors (sport), behind closed doors with no public spectators permitted due to the declaration of a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area in response ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Refugee Olympic Team At The 2020 Summer Olympics
The IOC Refugee Olympic Team competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, as independent Olympic participants. The International Olympic Committee, IOC List of IOC country codes, code is the French acronym "EOR", which stands for . This was the second appearance of a refugee team in the summer Olympics, following the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, 2016 Games. For the 2020 Games, the team included 29 athletes, up from 10 in Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the 2016 team. The team comprised athletes originating from 11 nations who currently reside and train across 13 host nations, supported by the IOC's Olympic Scholarships for Refugee Athletes program. At the 2020 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations, parade of nations, the IOC Team, according to the Gojūon, Japanese script traditional order and English pronunciation of IOC in Japanese, was the second to parade after Greece at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Greece who traditionally parade first. Team selection The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bulgaria At The 2024 Summer Olympics
Bulgaria competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Bulgarian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympics from 1924 onwards, except for three occasions: the 1948 Summer Olympics in London because of the nation's instigation in World War II, and the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles because of the worldwide Great Depression and Soviet boycott, respectively. Medalists Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Athletics ;Field events Badminton Bulgaria entered three badminton players into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Paris Rankings. Boxing Bulgaria entered qualified five boxers (three male and two female). Cuban-born and Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympian Javier Ibáñez Díaz (men's featherweight) and Svetlana Staneva (women's featherweight), with women's bantamweight boxer Stanimira Petrova going to her third consecutive Games, secured the spots on the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Iran At The 2024 Summer Olympics
Iran (officially called the Islamic Republic of Iran) competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Since the nation's return in 1948 after having made their debut in 1900, Iranian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except for Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984, citing political reasons. This was the nation's 19th appearance at the Summer Olympics. During the Games, 41 competitors across 14 sports competed for Iran at the 2024 Summer Olympics. The Iranian roster featured a number of past Olympians and Olympic medalists, including taekwondo fighter Nahid Kiani, who became the first Iranian woman to win a silver medal at the Olympics and thereby surpassing Kimia Alizadeh's 2016 bronze feat, and freestyle wrestler Hassan Yazdani, who won his third Olympic medal with a silver medal. A total of 12 medals were won for Iran at these Games, 3 of which were gold, placing Iran at 21st on the medal table for these Games. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Miljana Reljiḱ
Miljana Reljiḱ (; born 23 May 2003) is a Macedonian taekwondo practitioner. She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Career She won a bronze medal at the 2023 European U21 Taekwondo Championships in the 62kg category in Bucharest in November 2023. She lost in the bronze medal match to Aaliyah Powell of Great Britain at the 2023 European Games in Poland, in the Women's 62kg. She competed at the 2024 European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria, and qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games in the Women's −67 kg division. Competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris she defeated two-time Olympic champion Jade Jones of Great Britain. She also had the honour of being a flag bearer for the country at the 2024 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations The 2024 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations within the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony took place on 26 July 2024 on the Seine river in Paris, France. Athletes and officials from each participating team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jade Jones (taekwondo)
Jade Louise Jones (born 21 March 1993) is a Welsh former taekwondo athlete, and boxer. She is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the women's 57 kg category, and the 2019 World champion, 2016, 2018 and 2021 European champion and both 2015 European Games and 2023 European Games champion at the same weight, the only double gold medalist at her weight in the history of those Games. In 2012, she won Britain's first taekwondo Olympic gold medal. Jones was at the time the reigning Youth Olympic champion in the girls' 55 kg category, winning gold for Great Britain in 2010. Career history Jones was born in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales. She attended Flint High School leaving aged 16 to take up taekwondo full-time. , Jones was tall and weighed . She competes as part of the GB Taekwondo Academy, which is based in Manchester. In 2010 Jones won a bronze medal at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Jones competed for Great B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
