Kurdish karate player participates in Tokyo Olympics qualifiers
Sport 11:56 AM - 2021-05-26.
A Kurdish player is participating for the first time in the qualifiers for the Tokyo Summer Olympics, which is scheduled to take place this year in Japan.
The Kurdish player, Shvan Othman, player of the Iraqi national team and the Peshmerga club in the karate game, is scheduled to go to France to participate in the qualifying rounds for the Tokyo Summer Olympics.
Currently, Shvan Othman has entered an intensive training camp in Sulaymaniyah to prepare for the qualifiers in which 24 players will participate, of whom only 3 will qualify for the Tokyo Summer Olympics.
It is noteworthy that Shvan Othman won many medals during his participation in local and international tournaments.
Karate, a system of unarmed combat that means "empty hand," is said to have developed during the 17th century in the Okinawa prefecture, a chain of islands off the southern coast of Japan.
Despite being popularized worldwide as a sport after World War II, karate -- along with four other sports -- will be part of the Summer Olympics for the first time at the Tokyo Olympics.
Fittingly, it makes its Olympic debut in Japan, where the sport, which involves executing arm- and leg-based strikes, first originated.
Edited by Baha Amin
PUKmedia - Harez Jamal
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