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Er is ook nieuws ove Kickboksen en de Olypische Spelen. De 12-jarige Jesse-Jane McParland sprok hierbij als de offiviele Ambassadeur met mensen van het IOC om het Kickboksen tot een officuele Olympische sport te maken. Zie het onderstaande mediabericht. -------------------- NEWS FROM THE KICKBOXING WORLD .With more than 300 Champion titles and 49 as World Champion (October 2017) in a multitude of martial arts, she is the biggest example and an insipation source for millions of children and adults from all over the world to also engage in sport. Here is a final media message about her. The 12-year-old Irish champion at the forefront of kickboxing By Thomas Giles at the Centara Convention Centre in Bangkok Wednesday, 18 April 2018 Jesse-Jane McParland is a 12-year-old from Ireland who has become an unlikely star in the kickboxing world after her RU-vid videos attracted 500 million views. Speaking to insidethegames at te SportAccord Summit here, McParland, who has been kickboxing since she was three-years-old and is now a World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (WAKO / WAKOPRO) ambassador, explained how she got into the sport. Jesse-Jane McParland has 500 million RU-vid views ©WAKO Thanks to her appearances on RU-vid and British reality television show Britain’s Got Talent, where reached the final round, McParland has arguably become more famous than many professional kickboxing athletes, allowing her to become a trademark for WAKO. Her role as a WAKO ambassador at this year’s SportAccord has certainly got heads turning. In a world where so many ambassadors and representatives are grey-haired men, the site of a 12-year-old girl with blonde hair representing a sport is unique. McParland revealed her ambitions are to compete in the Olympics for Ireland, but says she would consider a career in stunt-acting. WAKO say that, whatever decision McParland decides to make, she will have the full backing of the organisation. "The essence of our working in the athletes’ programme is to take care of our athletes after they finish their competitive career,” WAKO representative Marijana Pelević says. "When you are 30 and have given your life to sport and then you suddenly stop competing and you don’t know what to do - this is a problem all over the world. "But now, in this age, as for JJ, she has her whole life in front of her and she can decide if she wants to compete in the future." Later on in the evening, McParland went on to wow onlookers in a kickboxing demonstration at the Thai Sports Festival, taking place outside the Centara Convention Centre here in the Thai capital.