(CNN) -- Former Olympic champion Angel Matos of Cuba faces a life ban after kicking a referee flush in the face during his taekwondo bronze medal match in Beijing. Matos reacted in extraordinary ...

BEIJING, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Cuba's Angel Valodia Matos was banned for life from taekwondo on Saturday after he kicked the match referee in the head in his Olympic bronze medal bout, a tournament ...

BEIJING -- Cuba's Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee square in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match, prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to recommend that he be ...

Matos angrily questioned the call, pushed a judge, then pushed and kicked referee Chakir Chelbat of Sweden, who will require stitches in his lip. Matos spat on the floor and was escorted out. “This is ...

BEIJING, Aug. 23 -- Cuba's Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee square in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze medal match, prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to recommend he be ...