Cloud over Taekwondo

It was a saddening news when i heard about the allegations of underage drinking and sexual harassment that have surfaced as U.S. taekwondo athletes and coaches head to the Olympic trials this week in Colorado Springs. Although USA Taekwondo’s chief executive, David Askinas, said that in his 19 months on the job he has instituted a “zero tolerance” policy on underage drinking and sexual harassment and increased supervision of minors at overseas tournaments. But according to some players in the squad they said that they actually witness other
teammates drink and the coaches only want results thus they did not care much. Though there was also one incident whereby the coach punished those who had a hungover to maintain the 'zero tolerance' policy, there seem more incidents where players said the coaches did not bother. No matter what, as a Taekwondo practioner, hope that such things should not be happening anymore as Taekwondo is after a martial arts and discipline sport.