Tokyo 2020 champion David Taylor (+86kg) had been unbeaten since the 2021 World Championships final, when he lost to Iran's Hassan Yazdani. Taylor had only lost once since the 2017 US World Team Trials, when he lost twice to two-time world champion and Rio 2016 bronze medallist J'Den Cox, and it was the same loss to Yazdani. Since 2017, Taylor has won gold medals at the Olympics and three World Championships, as well as a silver medal at the World Championships.

Six countries have won two spots each for the Paris Olympics in freestyle wrestling on the first day of the Asian Olympic Games Qualifiers in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

In February 2024, Insidethegames reported on the situation in Taekwondo New Zealand. Athletes who were due to represent New Zealand at the Olympic Qualification Tournament were told by the Oceania Taekwondo Union (OTU) that the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) "will not be nominating any taekwondo athletes to compete at the Paris Olympic Games as there is no recognised organisation for the sport of taekwondo in New Zealand".

The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup, held in Phuket, Thailand from 31 March to 11 April, was one of the biggest shows the sport has ever seen.

Team USA will field a four-man taekwondo team at Paris 2024. CJ Nicholas, silver medallist at the 2022 World Championships, qualified for the Olympic Games via the Olympic rankings in the men's -80kg.

Taekwondo Canada national team member Josipa Kafadar earned a spot on Canada's Olympic taekwondo team at the Pan American qualifying tournament in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Bianca Cook will represent the Isle of Man at the European Taekwondo Championships in Belgrade in May as she looks to book her place at Paris 2024. She will be competing for an unprecedented 5th European title.

The history of Taekwon-Do must be told from the 9th of November 1918, when Choi Hong Hi was born in Hwa Dae, in the Myong Chun district of the Korean peninsula.  

United World Wrestling (UWW) has appointed two separate panels to independently and separately analyse the refereeing decisions, including the challenge decisions, of the match between Frank Chamizo (Italy) and Turan Bayramov (Azerbaijan) at the European OG Qualifier in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The final continental qualifier for the Paris 2024 Taekwondo tournament took place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 9-10 April.

The 74kg competition at the 2024 European Wrestling Qualifiers in Baku ended in a major scandal when one of the semi-finalists, Italy's Frank Chamizo Marquez, disagreed with the judges' decisions in his deciding bout against Azerbaijan's Turan Bayramov.

Three of Taekwondo Canada's top athletes will compete against some of the continent's best at the Pan American Qualifying Tournament for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 9-10 April.

After failing to win a single qualification place in Greco-Roman style and women's wrestling, Azerbaijan dominated freestyle wrestling at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in their capital city of Baku.

Armenian-born French wrestler Gagik Snjoyan has abandoned his Olympic dream over security fears by refusing to take part in the European wrestling qualifiers in Azerbaijan, reports AFP.