2012 Summer Games: Taekwondo Tickets

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London competition will be held at ExCeL London, situated near London City Airport in east London's Royal Victoria Dock.

In the Olympic taekwondo competition, each weight category will consist of a single elimination tournament with a repechage for the bronze medal contest. The winner of the final contest will receive the gold medal and the loser will receive the silver medal.

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Losers to the finalists from all phases will advance to the repechage. In the repechage, the losers of the semifinals during the elimination phase will be seeded directly to each of the repechage finals, but on the opposite side of the bracket. Other losers will advance to the repechage unseeded, at the same side of the bracket in which they contested during the elimination phase. The two winners in the repechage finals will each receive a bronze medal.

Traditionally, taekwondo competitions consist of 16 weight classes, eight for men and eight for women. In the Olympics, there are only eight classes -- four for each gender -- because the International Olympic Committee (IOC) limits the total number of taekwondo entrants to 128 (64 men, 64 women). The weight divisions in Beijing are broader than those used in other competitions and are therefore labeled as Olympic classes.

Matches
A taekwondo match involves two competitors, "Chung" (blue) and "Hong" (red). Before the match begins, the two competitors stand at attention and bow to each other on the referee's Korean commands of "cha-ryeot" (attention) and "kyeong-rye" (bow). The referee will then shout out "shi-jak" to start the match.