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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

karate, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing to the Olympic program for the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, announced IOC president. The addition of new sports comes as a result of the IOC’s ...

The sport, which has never been contested at the Olympics, eyes inclusion for the Tokyo 2020 Games. “Karate is a sport with Japanese roots,” World Karate Federation President Antonio Espinos said ...

The opening presentation of CP+ 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, saw Canon kick things off in literal fashion, announcing its ...

Considering the totality of a 162-game Major League Baseball season ... According to Reuters, karate was rejected from past Olympic bids because organizers said “the sport lacked entertainment ...

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.