GKC delighted Karate now an Olympic medal sport

Aug 13, 2016 Sports

The Guyana Karate College (GKC) has received with pure delight and gratification, the news that the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has agreed at its 129th IOC session in Rio de Janeiro recently, to allow the martial art of Karate-do as one of five additional sports that will be part of the next Olympics that will be held in Tokyo, Japan in the summer of 2020, a release from the GKC stated.
Senior Instructor and Vice President of the GKC Sensei Jeffrey Wong advised that with just four years to go and to prepare for Guyana to be represented at these games, his college intended to spare no effort in preparing to play its part in seeing Guyana represented and putting up an honourable and possibly a medal winning performance in Tokyo, a tall order bearing in mind that only approximately 80 martial artists from around the world will qualify to vie for medals in Japan.
He underscored the need for instructors and dojos to have the correct technical background and knowledge to prepare their Karatekas for the games.
Since its establishment a decade ago, the GKC has done a phenomenal job of keeping the Golden Arrowhead flying high bringing in more medals than any other Karate organization in Guyana when they competed at the ISKF and IKD world tournaments both of which were held in Toronto, Canada, at the Pan American Championships, the South American Cup and the Caribbean Karate Championships held in St. Lucia, Barbados and Trinidad.
He expressed the belief that the IOC took a historic step in bringing the Games to young martial artists and will allow young Karatekas from around the world the chance of a lifetime to realize their dreams of competing in the Olympic Games, the world’s greatest sporting stage and to inspire them to achieve their best, both in karate and in life.
Media/Public Relations Consultant for the GKC Waynewright Orderson said that officials from the various karate organizations from around the world for decades now have laboured to get karate added to the Olympics, with some martial artists even believing that it would never happen due to the fact that the Olympics already had three striking sports those being Judo, Boxing and Taekwondo and the variation of styles within Karate-do, and so its inclusion was a victory for all of the Karate Senseis, athletes, officials, organizers and volunteers who worked tirelessly for this dream to become a reality.
The Guyana Karate College is focusing at the moment on seeing the completion of its new dojo and headquarters in Lilliendaal which is presently under construction, to better accommodate and facilitate training both in the physical and theoretical aspects of karate-do at the highest level for Karatekas from Guyana and beyond, and the hosting of local and international tournaments.

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