Sunday, February 14, 2010

Grand Master Confirmed Dead

Haiti -- 57-year-old taekwondo grand master Tran Trieu Quan from Quebec City in Canada has been confirmed dead, according to theglobeandmail.com. He went missing in the wake of the earthquake that hit in January.

His remains was identified in the rubble of a Port-au-Prince hotel, his family announced in a statement Saturday morning.

After General Choi died in 2002, Mr. Quan succeeded him as president of the International Taekwondo Federation, one of the sports' two main ruling bodies.

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