Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics made its first appearance as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The opening ceremony featured a mass demonstration of taekwondo with hundreds of adults and children performing moves in unison. Taekwondo was again a demonstration sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were no demonstration sports at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Taekwondo became a full medal sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and has been a sport in the Olympic games since then. The quest
Craig Brown (taekwondo) a stress fracture in his back, which deprived him of a chance to compete for his second Olympics in Beijing. When his native London hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics, he suffered again on another Olympic setback with a severe hamstring injury that ruled himself out of the Games in the process. After his six-year membership from the National Taekwondo Academy, Brown had decided to return home to London in 2010 to pursue other commitments to the sport. On that same year, Brown established his own taekwondo school with the goal of using the sport to positively impact the lives of