(ANSA) – SEUL, 23 NOV – The General Assembly of the World Taekwondo Federation approved, after electronic voting, the affiliation of ” Athletica Vaticana-Vatican Taekwondo ‘as 211 / o effective member of the federation itself. Thus the Papal State also becomes part of the international ‘family’ of this sport after those of athletics and cycling and sees even more closely the prospect of being able to present its representative at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
Relations between the Vatican and the world of Taekwondo have been close for years, with a common commitment to peace, and in 2016 there was a demonstration exhibition in 2016 as part of the ‘Global Conference on Faith and Sport’. The following year the president of ‘World Taekwondo’, Chungwon Choue, and that of the Italian federation, Angelo Cito, had been received in the Vatican by Pope Francis, to whom they had conferred the honorary title of black belt tenth dan.
“We are happy that the Vatican has become part of our family – the words of Choue after the decision of today’s Assembly -. Taekwondo has always promoted inclusion, and ‘speaks’ a universal language, regardless of every distinction of race and faith. We have always fought, and strongly, to promote values such as respect, friendship and peace, and we don’t care where one comes from. “
Meanwhile, the San Pio X Institute, in collaboration with the Italian federation, has been setting up taekwondo courses for seminarians since the last months of last year, in which 20 practitioners take part who train three times a week, perhaps dreaming of Paris. (HANDLE).
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