How to upgrade the game? This is the biggest question facing taekwondo for the long cycle of preparation for the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020. How to upgarde the game? Fortunately, the WTF has been introducing changes and innovations. Following the 2008 Beijing Olympics – it was controversies over scoring and refereeing – the sport’s future on the Olympic program was in jeopardy. The WTF instituted a reform drive. The mission was improving the transparency and fairness of the game. To realize this they invented the electronic protector and scoring system (PSS). The PSS makes all points scored immediately to the crowd, while reducing human error in judging. Referee training and education was massively upgraded and the Instant V.R.(Video Replay) system was introduced. Thanks to these developments, taekwondo was controversy-free in London 2012 and Rio 2016 and is now a firm fixture on the Summer Games program. But there have been drawbacks -as everything invented by human-...
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