Taekwondo. It's girls getting repeatedly kicked about the head.. now that's what I call sport!
Having said that, it's a bit of a difficult watch when one of them squeals with pain and the trainer has to come on with the magic sponge
Then when that's over, between rounds your coach bellows in your face. It's a pretty tough business
When the blokes do it, it's still pretty cool, if a bit less elegant. One of the good things about Taekwondo is that if the fighters circle each other waiting for an opening the ref roars 'FIGHT!!' in order to get them to get back to biffing each other..
Here's a thing. 'Chinese Taipei' had a fighter, but their supporters are not allowed to take photos of their national (=Taiwanese) flag, they have to use the official 'made-up-just-for-the-Olympics-to-keep China-happy' flag. Two girls behind me were told by a steward to delete the photo they'd taken of themselves. Don't worry, I don't expect you to believe this.
Anyway here's a Taiwan flag, included here just to prove what a crazy rule-breaker I am....
This is my favourite Taekwondo-er, Brigitte Yague of Spain who came back from being 9-4 down with 30 secs to go to qualify for the final (which she lost, unfortunately)
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