Karate had its long-awaited moment at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics last week but does it deserve a place in future Games?
That is the question that will follow the Japanese martial arts' governing body as it continues the quest for karate to be included once again in the world's top sporting event.
In contrast, teenagers hauled in three of the four gold medals in skateboarding, one of two in climbing and two out of eight in taekwondo, perhaps karate's closest rival at the Olympics. To the casual observer, karate's other category, "kumite", or sparring, could look like a game of tag, with competitors spending much of the time bouncing on their toes and staring at each other, looking for an opening.
If there was a perception that karate was hard to follow and enjoy, a telling moment came in the tournament's final bout. What looked like a perfect, Hollywood-movie karate kick by Saudi Arabian Tareg Hamedi disqualified him,Another head-scratcher happened a day earlier in the final between Serbia's Jovana Prekovic and China's Yin Xiaoyan.
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