Sang Chul Lee (taekwondo) taught to work hard, to achieve beyond their potential, and to give back to the community. Lee was fond of saying, "if your opponent does 200 kicks, then you must do 300 kicks. Make no excuses." Sang Chul Lee is the most decorated US Olympic Taekwondo Head coach in history. Although Taekwondo was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, his US team won 11 medals, including 3 gold, more than any other US Taekwondo Olympic Team. Lee's coaching success was not easy. In the late 1970s, the US Taekwondo Team was unranked in the world. According to
Adriana Carmona Adriana Carmona Adriana Carmona (born December 3, 1972 in Puerto La Cruz) is a Venezuelan taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist. She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she received a bronze medal in the +67 kg class. She participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona where taekwondo was a demonstration sport, and reached the semi finals winning a bronze medal, which is not counted on the country's total because of the "unofficial" character of the sport at that games. She reached the semi finals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Carmona won a gold medal