| <8 December 2002 - 1.30pm NZ time>
Update from
the Mokis: They had a controversial loss to Puerto Rico in team sparring. Mark lost to Czech in individual sparring with 2 deductions and 7 warnings. Harmony says that theres definitely still some more medals to come... Update from the Thompsons: Spoke to Mark, Harmony
and Dee Jay
<8 December 2002 - 10.00am NZ time>
It just keeps happening.
I am sure there are more to come as the New Andrew and from the meeting... The Polish Taekwon-Do group made a small presentation regarding the Senior World Championships. Expecting 60 - 70 countries with 33 coming from Europe. Patron of the tournament is the President of the Polish Republic.
<7 December 2002 - 5.30pm NZ time>
Just some more detail on Dan Kerr's victory in power. It was highly dramatic. There were 30 in the division, and Daniel was third last to do his breaks. A Spanish competitor had broken every board except one, so if Dan was to take the lead he had to fully complete every single break. The breaks were: Punch 3 boards, Knifehand 4 boards, Side Kick 5 boards, Turning Kick 4 boards. Wooden boards. Dan duely smashed the whole lot and took the lead, which sent the kiwis berserk. However the very next competitor from Czech Rep equalled Dan, which forced a playoff. The tie break technique chosen by the officials was a 6 board side kick. Dan went first and missed (0 points). All the Czech had to do was crack a board and the gold was his HOWEVER the Czech then missed and got 0 points. So back they went to 5 board side kick to try and break the deadlock. Dan went first and smashed the whole lot. The Czech then did the same. Talk about an emotional rollercoaster.... The officials then decided that side kick wasn't going to break the deadlock, so they decided to move to a 4 board knifehand. Dan went first again, and the 4 boards didn;t stand a chance (full points to Dan). Pressure then back on the Czech. He hit the boards hard and they didn't break, however the officials decided that the boards had slid out of the holder and decided he could have another go (much to NZ's dismay). The Czech second attempt failed to even break a board. Gold to Dan and 30 kiwis go berserk. Team events tomorrow. We ain't finished with the medals yet......kia ora Grant <7 December 2002 - 3.45pm NZ time> THREE
GOLD
AND TWO BRONZE IN THREE DAYS! Team events tomorrow
- and we're looking good to go!! <From the Message Book> Hey everyone howz it going.I would just like to thank everyone one of the supporters in NZ.I carnt explain the feeling of reading all those mails.The whole team is very excited about the medals and are promising more to come.Tonee sends his thanks aswell but at the moment he is talk to some latinos.Miss you all and BIG THANKX TO YOU ALL.LATER DAYZ DJ
Hey everyone hows
it ?
Tonee Francis <6 December 2002 - 5.40pm NZ time>
Dan sparred a Australia and won followed by a controversial loss to Czech. Phillip sparred Puerto Rico he was awesome, we are still hearing comments but another controversial decision saw Puerto Rico win, how we will never know. Harmony was up against Canada for patterns she was amazing I have never seen such control and precision but unfortunately for us Canada won.
<6 December 2002 - 7.30am NZ time>
We have had such an exciting day and it is only half-way through. Kyle sparring against
Slovenia in the heavy weight division. The Slovenian 1st Dan
patterns Niki for specialty is sitting on 3 points, she got 1 point for the flying front kick & 2 for the flying turning. She then went on to power and is sitting on 12 points with a successful knifehand & turning kick. More competitors to come after lunch so our fingers are crossed for her. Robert showed the Puerto Rican some awesome jumping punches but the Puerto Rican came back with jumping kicks. Puerto Rico won Sam had one of the hardest sparring matches of his life, he drew Poland. The Polish are hard and fast, but Sam did really well. Poland won Dan T was against USA, Dan was awesome and the minutes seemed like hours but USA won Tonee had another hard draw, he was up against greenland's one and only competitor and he was good. Tonee did great but Greenland won. Still to come Dan K & Phillip!!!!!! PS - Message
for Mark from Canada: <5 December 2002 - 4.30pm NZ time>
The best teams seem to be the Czech, Polish, Argentina and New Zealand. Watching the New
Zealand flag being raised and hearing the national anthem had the entire
team with hand on heart (yes I mean literally). It was awesome. Nice
to know that of all the medals handed out today there was only one anthem
played twice. I have to admit that I was feeling the emotion, the team
is buzzing and there could be more to Honza, message was passed on. Petra got Silver, but I thought she deserved gold. She did awesome and you would be proud of her. You will hear from one of us soon.
<5 December 2002 - 3.00pm NZ time>
Greg reports that tommorow Danier Kerr is up against Australia, Sam Skinner - Poland, Robert Buddle - Puerto Rico and Tonee Francis against Greenland. We think Dan Thompson is up against USA.
<5 December 2002 - 11.00am NZ time>
Keep an eye out for more action tomorrow. Opening ceremony tonight. <5 December 2002 - 7.30am NZ time>
Well first day of competition saw Jess up 1st agains Chezch. She put up a great fight, but lost. Next we had Regan in 1st Dan Patterns against USA. Regan did the best patterns we have ever seen him do, sadly it wasnt enough to go through to the next round. Kyle up for speciality. Each competitor gets 2 attempts at all 5 and they take the best out of the 2. Kyle absolutely blitzed 4 of the 5 so far he is leading in points and there has been over 20 with more to come after lunch. Rose up next against USA, Rose won going through to the next round against Argentina... she showed heaps of spirit and the match was so close, but Argentina won. Mark up next for 3rd Dan patterns.... YES we have a GOLD!!!!!!! More
to come with Harmony after lunch |
"Ed: we don't know exactly who competed in Team events - but usually at a World Champs ALL members of a female or male team will be given a medal when the members of the team take a place in any event."
Dan
Kerr
Nikki
Galpin
Kyle
Caldwell
Mark
Trotter
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