France, 'Nong Tennis' Panipak Wongpattanakit, a taekwondo athlete for the Thai national team, made her debut by defeating Umema El Bouchi from Morocco 2-0, advancing to the last 8 of the taekwondo competition at the 2024 Olympic Games. The first day of the Taekwondo competition at the 2024 Olympic Games at Le Grand Palais in Paris, France, the last 16 of the 49 kg women's category will be competed in a best-of-three-round format. "Nong Tennis" Panipak Wongpattanakit, a Thai national taekwondo athlete and gold medalist at the 2020 Olympics, the number 1 seed of the tournament, will compete against Umema El Bouchi, number 17 from Morocco. It turned out that in the first round, Nong Tennis started to score by kicking the body for 2 points, followed by kicking the head for another 3 points, before closing out the first round with an 8-1 score. In the second round, El Bouchi still couldn't get in, while Nong Tennis intercepted kicks and scored points, including two head kicks, and won this round easily with 1 0-1 points, allowing Panipak to defeat El Bouchi from Morocco 2-0, moving on to the final 8 to meet Dunya Ali Abdultaleb from Saudi Arabia, the 9th seed in the tournament, today (7 August) at 7:53 p.m. on Channel 9 MCOT HD, press 30, live broadcast. If Nong Tennis wins, she will compete in the semi-finals at 9:21 p.m., while the finals in the women's 49 kg category will be held at 2:19 a.m. Source: Thai News Agency