Search
Search

OTOG2024

Olympic Games: Laetitia Aoun, from the Lebanese tatamis to those of Paris

The Lebanese taekwondo athlete will compete on Aug. 8. At 23, she hopes to return with a medal from the most important competition of her life.

Olympic Games: Laetitia Aoun, from the Lebanese tatamis to those of Paris

Laetitia Aoun in training. (Photo João Sousa - Editing Jaimee-Lee Haddad/L'Orient-Le Jour)

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...
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...