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Inclusion of Taekwondo in the Olympics

Letter to Rhee, Ki-ha from President of the IOC Juan Antonio Samaranch. Here he claims that Taekwondo isn’t at this time going to be in the Olympic Games of 1988, so was he lying? 

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