Tongan Pita Taufatofua looks to be dual threat in Tokyo2020 by rorydcarroll
- Tongan Pita Taufatofua, who set social media ablaze when he went shirtless during the opening and closing ceremonies in the past two Olympics, on Wednesday said he is aiming to qualify for the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo in two sports.
“Taekwondo is my first love. You never forget your first love,” he told Reuters at a training session in New York. “We’re trying to do two sports in one Olympics.” “Kayaking is a sport that is part of being a Polynesian. They travelled all throughout Polynesia hundreds of years ago and that’s more of a natural sport to me than, say, the skiing, and I just love being out on the ocean.”
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