Karate's first gold-medal match between Sanchez and Shimizu involved not a single blow - only the sounds of their snap-cracking dogi and mid-routine shouts. In the kata discipline, karate-kas ...

Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate gold on Friday, demonstrating his supremacy in the martial art form that originated in his native Okinawa a day after his compatriot conceded karate's ...