Laetitia Aoun in training. (Photo João Sousa - Editing Jaimee-Lee Haddad/L'Orient-Le Jour)
On the occasion of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, L'Orient-Le Jour looks at the athletes who make up the Lebanese delegation. Here is that of Laetitia Aoun, representing Lebanon in taekwondo.At 23, Laetitia Aoun is progressing quickly in the "way of feet and fists," the literal translation of taekwondo, the Korean martial art she discovered at the age of nine. On March 20, at the qualifying tournament for the Paris Olympic Games held in Tai'an, China, it took the Lebanese taekwondoist fifteen seconds to inflict 8 devastating points on the Filipina Jessica Canabal, whom she ended up beating 2 sets to 0, like her previous confrontation against the Syrian Shams Ahmad."I had worked hard in advance to arrive with a good ranking and a favorable draw. I had to either win or be second. In the end, I was first," said the member of the Mont La...
On the occasion of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, L'Orient-Le Jour looks at the athletes who make up the Lebanese delegation. Here is that of Laetitia Aoun, representing Lebanon in taekwondo.At 23, Laetitia Aoun is progressing quickly in the "way of feet and fists," the literal translation of taekwondo, the Korean martial art she discovered at the age of nine. On March 20, at the qualifying tournament for the Paris Olympic Games held in Tai'an, China, it took the Lebanese taekwondoist fifteen seconds to inflict 8 devastating points on the Filipina Jessica Canabal, whom she ended up beating 2 sets to 0, like her previous confrontation against the Syrian Shams Ahmad."I had worked hard in advance to arrive with a good ranking and a favorable draw. I had to either win or be second. In the end, I was first," said the member of the Mont La...
