Karate will be an Olympic sport for the first time in Tokyo this year. It might be the last: Japanese Olympic organizers added it to the list of sports at this year’s Games under new IOC ...

"We've shown these at Games how beautiful it is ... Spaniard Sandra Sanchez wrote her name in Olympic history by by becoming the first ever champion in karate, as she won the women's kata on ...

Sponsor Message The karate at the Olympics, he says, is more of a sports technique. He's encouraging his students to watch the Games on TV as motivation. Iwata notes that Europeans are now ...

TOKYO – These Olympics wrap up looking younger ... Some of the sports added for these Games – baseball/softball and karate – are gone for now. IOC rules now allow host cities to add sports ...

Jun Tsuboike Finally, hard-line traditionalists have a more philosophical objection to karate in the Olympics. The unabashed quest for personal glory that marks the modern Games is a betrayal of ...

Becoming an Olympic sport was a major milestone for karate and skateboarding. Yet the journey each sport took to the Games was very different. In karate’s case, years-old rivalries between ...

Or is it a modern competitive sport, a showcase for elite athletes, with a place in today’s Olympic Games? Image Rika Usami, a karate world champion, is the first female coach of the national ...

we are doing everything we can to make sure karate is part of the program in the 2020 Olympics." Under the new reforms, known as "Olympic Agenda 2020," the IOC will limit the games program by the ...

Karate will not return for the 2024 Olympic Games, but skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing will be featured. Skateboarding and sport climbing events will be held in Paris, while the surfing ...

Check out the full schedule of the Olympics Karate events. The WKF recognizes ... The BBC will cover the games on TV, radio and online in the UK, with more on Eurosport, a pay-TV channel.