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Ban Ki-Moon Receiving a Black Belt
WTF President Awarded Black Belt to the Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon was awarded a Taekwondo Honorary 10th Dan black belt by World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) President Chungwon Choue as part of celebrations marking the WTF’s 40th anniversary on June 6th 2013.
The UN Secretary General is only the third recipient of an Honorary 10th Dan black belt and follows the late former president of the International Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch and current president Jacques Rogge, in accepting this award.
The symbolic exchange took place at the 3rd International Forum on Sport for Development and Peace in New York
The WTF’s global campaign to promote the values of Olympism continues this summer through the hugely successful World Taekwondo Peace Corps program. Students from the Peace Corps will be dispatched to 22 different countries, such as East Timor, Colombia and Botswana to teach taekwondo’s core skills and values to young, aspiring athletes. Since the program was inaugurated in 2008, it has visited 93 countries across all five Olympic continents.
Source: WTM
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