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Listed below are comments made by mightymike99 between Tuesday, 12th August 2008 and Tuesday, 26th August 2008.

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Taekwondo needs to move with the times 12:33pm on 26 Aug 2008 Taekwondo is Korean martial art and IOC is not in charge of Taekwondo and should never be. It is not their responsibility to organise Taekwondo.

The main board WTF is really the only true Taekwondo organisation since it is based in Korea and is the roots to taekwondo. Kukkiwon is the home and nothing will change that.

ITF has a valid claim for recognition with General Choi but the other organisations have NO claim at all.

There have been attempts by the WTF to include ITF atheletes but it is important that only one organisation holds control. Imagine if the IBF, IBO, WBC, WBA et al all had control over amateur boxing... it would be the biggest nightmare and a complete scandalous sham!!

I find it contemptable that there are all these splinter TKD organisation claiming to be valid. If you want your own organisation, make up your own martial art and call it something else because it isn't TKD.
Taekwondo needs to move with the times 5:33pm on 25 Aug 2008 Nigel Hudson has reflected the political situation of TKD around may european countries.

UK sport will not have capability of rectifying the situation. They are about the lose all the successful coaches of these olympics by the sounds of it!

It has to be the WTF... if they don't sort this there will be more and more break away organisation which in the long term will not help Olympic ambitions.

I fear it maybe too late and that being kicked out of the Olympics will help TKD weed out the money grabbing opportunists and leave this great martial art to those who truely believe its beauty.
Taekwondo needs to move with the times 7:47pm on 24 Aug 2008 With all due respect to all the posters here (who have written valid points), the underlying root cause of all this is the complete ill-disciplined way Taekwondo has been taught around trhe world.

I have practised TKD since the age of 7 (I am now 40) and as korean I have seem TKD become ruined by much more than what we saw at the Olympics.

Here in the UK and other places I have seen people getting black belts when they clearly are not... and these people the coaches and judges. Simple basics like coundting in Korean, bowing and anger towards the master are common place. This does happen as much in Karate.

The judging we witnessed is a result of the ill-disciplined "rape" of a martial art which has a rich and dignified history...which most players included do not appreciate or even know about.
Taekwondo needs to move with the times 2:06pm on 24 Aug 2008 Nick Mullins is absolutely correct here. As a Korean (who moved to the UK), I was proud to see TKD in the olympics (since 88 I believe) but the overall standard of the judging since the inauguration has been the biggest problem for TKD.

When I first came to the UK (mid 80's) the standard of TKD was pretty much a joke her and around the world. However, since then, the world has caught up with Korea and now, although Korea still sets the bar, many competitors around the world are as equally capable... except the judging. Even when I look at the judging standards in the UK, it is bad amateur at best. The standard at the Olympics is not surprising at all. The Olympics should penalise the WTF and put them on watch as they have let slip such standards. Part of the problem was the rush to get world recognition and get as many foreign judges involved who basically were not up to ther job.

If TKD is to raise the standards of judging, they must raise the overall standard in all TKD competitions. This is from the grass roots level in club competitions. The BTCB are too keen to make money and recruit as many people in TKD as possible. Even if it means they let sub-standard judging and players get away with things. Overall this is bad for the sport. The WTF must get hold of all the associations around the world and... basically kick them all up the ar$e!!!

The electronic protectors have problems and it is not the ultimate solution. The TKD competitors will learn to block away from the protectors and will make the sport more dull. The solution must be the humans who are involved. I would like to see 4 very capable judges, only 2 presses needed for a point, and a referee with power of immediate veto.

If the WTF cannot raise standards, TKD should be suspended from the olympics. And as a Korean that is a hard statement to make.
Is Phelps really the greatest? 11:28pm on 14 Aug 2008 We should have in track:

100m forwards (freestyle)
100m left sideways
100m right sideways
100m backwards

Then the same with 150m, 200m, 300m and 400m

.... you get my point!!
Is Phelps really the greatest? 3:09pm on 14 Aug 2008 No... but maybe "not yet"

Too many events in one sport. if there was 100m, 120m 140m 150m and 200m sprint then Carl lewis would be the greatest!

If like Redgrave, Phelps comes back to win in the next 4 olympics several goals per olympic then we can consider him as a possible "greatest olympian".

The Olympics is too baised towards swimming for the number of golds accumulated to be a simple measure of how great one is in it's history.
What makes Phelps so special? 3:07pm on 14 Aug 2008 No... but maybe "not yet"

Too many events in one sport. if there was 100m, 120m 140m 150m and 200m sprint then Carl lewis would be the greatest!

If like Redgrave, Phelps comes back to win in the next 4 olympics several goals per olympic then we can consider him as a possible "greatest olympian".

The Olympics is too baised towards swimming for the number of golds accumulated to be a simple measure of how great one is in it's history.
When is a grouse fair game? 01:29am on 13 Aug 2008 Sour grapes def!

The chinese boxer deserved to win. If we Brits want to get better, then we have to perform to a higher standard and not get bogged down with how a loser didn't get his recognition! He was outboxed and lost....fact!

We need to set our aims and standards higher then quibble over judges, who at the end of the day, got the result right!
Phelps on course after greatest relay race in history 6:16pm on 12 Aug 2008 I agree with comment 23!

As good as Phelps is, for a single man to win 8 medals in one sport means that swimming has way too many events. And swimming is not like track and field where is there's a far broader range... and far more popular around the world, i.e. more competitive. I personally think the Olympic reduce the number of swimming events.

In response to comment 24, I think the opposite. for Britain to become far more competitive, we need to have far more awareness in all sports and not just the ones the Brits are in! We need to be less insular and more competitive... and that means youngsters being inspired by all great athletes! Even though I want less swimming events, we are seeing a man making history. Our youngsters are going to be inspired by him and not the brit who came in 8th!!

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