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Grand Prix
President Choue: We have great expectations of Grand Prix
WTF President Chungwon Choue had a meeting with 7 Taekwondo journalists on March 14th, at the WTF office in Seongnam, Korea.
President Choue started the meeting talking about the IOC Executive Board’s decision to keep Taekwondo as an Olympic Sport. He said: ''as we have all seen with wrestling, there is no eternal Olympic sport anymore. There is still the IOC session in September so this is not the end yet. What we can clearly learn from wrestling’s elimination is that a sport that does not change cannot survive. In that sense, Taekwondo and WTF need to undergo more changes.
Furthermore, President Choue emphasized that one of the main transformations of Taekwondo will be the greater importance that the World Grand Prix Series will acquire in the future. It is expected to be the most important Taekwondo event right after the Olympic Games and the World Championships.
The categories of those events which are approved by the WTF will also change drastically. For instance, the Olympic Games will be up-ranked from G10 to G20. The World Championships will be a G12 event instead of G7 and the Grand Prix will be a G8 event. This clearly shows the importance of the World Grand Prix Series.
“We are working very hard for the Grand Prix establishment. We have great expectations by making it an audience and media-friendly event, where the best athletes of the world will show the best Taekwondo”, said President Choue.
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