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  2. Sport in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Football is the most popular sport in Vietnam. Its annual V-League competition has taken place since 1980 (except in 1988 and 1999). When Vietnam was split into North Vietnam and South Vietnam, two national teams existed. The North Vietnamese national team was not very active, playing almost exclusively against other Communist countries between ...

  3. Vietnamese martial arts - Wikipedia

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    Vovinam – Founded by Nguyễn Lộc. Also called Vovinam Việt Võ Đạo (Việt = Vietnamese, Võ = martial, Đạo = way) Võ Việt Nam (Cuton) or Võ Đạo of Phạm Văn Tan. [2] Vietnamese Wing Chun - a style of Wing Chun founded by Yuen Chai-wan. [3] Overseas. Cuong Nhu of Ngô Đồng (d. Florida 2000), known also by the Japanese ...

  4. Vovinam - Wikipedia

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    Vovinam (short for Võ Việt Nam, meaning "Vietnamese Martial Arts"), officially known as Việt Võ Đạo (越武道, meaning "Vietnamese Way of Martial Arts") is a Vietnamese martial art [1] founded in 1938 by Nguyễn Lộc. It is based on traditional Vietnamese eclectic sources. Vovinam, based on the principle of "hard and soft", involves ...

  5. Mainland Southeast Asia martial arts - Wikipedia

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    The martial art was turned into a sport when French colonists arrived and added components of Western boxing such as a boxing ring, boxing gloves, weight classes and timed rounds. 800 year old Cambodian stone carving of thrust kick. The thrust kick is a staple of modern pradal serey. Khmer traditional wrestling is a folk wrestling style from ...

  6. Kickboxing - Wikipedia

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    Kickboxing. Kickboxing ( / ˈkɪkbɒksɪŋ / KIK-boks-ing) is a full-contact hybrid martial art and boxing type based on punching and kicking. Kickboxing originated in the 1950s to 1970s. [2] The fight takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouth guards, shorts, and bare feet to favor the use of kicks.

  7. Vietnam at the Olympics - Wikipedia

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    2016. 2020. 2024. Vietnam first competed in the Olympic Games in 1952 as the State of Vietnam. After the Partition of Vietnam in 1954, only the Republic of Vietnam competed in the Games, sending athletes to every Summer Olympics between 1956 and 1972 . Since the reunification of Vietnam in 1976, they have competed as the Socialist Republic of ...

  8. Football in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Association football ( Vietnamese: Bóng đá) is the most popular sport in Vietnam. [1] Its V-League competition has taken place annually since 1980 (except in 1988 and 1999). When Vietnam was divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam (between 1954 and 1976), two national teams existed.

  9. Taekwondo - Wikipedia

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    Taekwondo ( / ˌtaɪkwɒnˈdoʊ, ˌtaɪˈkwɒndoʊ, ˌtɛkwənˈdoʊ /; [2] [3] [4] Korean : 태권도; [t̪ʰɛ.k͈wʌ̹n.d̪o] ⓘ ), also spelled tae kwon do or taekwon-do, is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving punching and kicking techniques. The literal translation for taekwondo is "kicking", "punching", and "the art or way of ...