Being held as an Olympic sport for the first time ever, the various karate competitions will be worth having an eye on in Tokyo All karate competitions for Tokyo 2021 will take place at the Nippon ...

TOKYO — The ancient martial art of Karate made its debut at the Summer Olympics in Japan this week. The sport was added as a nod to the country where it developed 700 years ago. There are two types of ...

TOKYO – For karateka Ariel Torres, the first American to win an Olympic medal in karate, the road to Tokyo started with a phone call, worn underwear and a Sharpie. Five years before he took bronze in ...

The tournament is an acknowledgment of the martial art’s roots in Japan and a nod to its global stature. By Ken Belson Karate made its debut as an official Olympic sport at the Tokyo Games on Thursday ...

After nearly a half-century of attempts to add karate to the Olympics, the Japanese martial art finally makes its debut on a temporary basis as one of five sports added only to the Tokyo program. The ...

For La Jolla High School junior Koji Lavinsky, winning karate championships is a matter of heart and hard work. In late September, Koji, 16, took home two gold medals and a bronze medal at the World ...

Karate made its long-awaited Olympic debut Thursday, one of four new sports at the Tokyo 2020 Games, where athletes are fighting to win not only gold but to secure the sport’s future as an Olympic ...

To Japan’s traditionalists, karate represents qualities fundamental to the national character. But to be a modern sport, the discipline has been forced to adapt. By Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno TOKYO — ...

TOKYO — The ancient martial art of Karate made its debut at the Summer Olympics in Japan this week. The sport was added as a nod to the country where it developed 700 years ago. There are two types of ...