The most exalted of the poomsae practitioners in Cuba, Darío Navarro Riquelme, will show the attendees at the Taekwondo Gala this weekend the pumse with which he competed internationally and virtually in 2021.
“The gala will begin on Friday with the protocol part in our school, Esfaar Cardín, and then on Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th we will do poomsae and combat,” the 18-year-old from Cienfuegos told JIT.
“My teammates from the national team have asked me and also several followers and what better occasion than a gala to please them,” said who is preparing for the World Cup scheduled for April 18 to 24 in South Korea.
The best of 2021 and of the sports four-year period that closed with Tokyo 2020 will be awarded at the gala.
For this reason, it is to be expected that Navarro and Rafael Alba, tanned in the Japanese Olympic event, lead in both sections as the most exalted.
Alba taekwondoin, a new term coined by the World Federation of this discipline (WT) to name practitioners of the martial art of Korean origin, has no opponent when it comes to selecting the best in Cuba.
A few days ago, the WT used for the first time the term taekwondoin in the singular and taekwondoines in the plural to homogenize the noun, but made it clear that the term taekwondo competitor, and taekwondo athlete or coach can also be used.
WT President Chungwon Choue spread the word in communication to the international community.
And it is that in the Spanish language they were given various qualifications: in Colombia they were called taekwondogas, in Spain taekwondistas and in Mexico taekwondoínes.
