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has yet to debut in competition.
This is outdated: Taijishan has already been contested in official IWUF competition.
Full reasoning
The statement is no longer correct. The International Wushu Federation's report on the 4th World Taijiquan Championships says the Singapore event in August 2024 "introduced optional and compulsory Taijishan routine competitions for the first time in the World Taijiquan Championships' history." That means Taijishan had already debuted in official competition by 2024, so it cannot still be described as not having debuted.
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- The 4th World Taijiquan Championships in Singapore a Success - IWUF
Notably, as wushu has been included as an official event in the 2026 Dakar Summer Youth Olympic Games, featuring a Taijiquan Combined event (Taijiquan & Taijishan), this Singapore event introduced optional and compulsory Taijishan routine competitions for the first time in the World Taijiquan Championships' history.
Only the age group C and B athletes at the World Junior Wushu Championships still compete with compulsory routines at an international level.
Current IWUF rules no longer match this description: the World Junior Wushu Championships now use Youth, Junior, and Children divisions, and Youth and Junior taolu both use set routines.
Full reasoning
This sentence is outdated against current IWUF regulations. The official regulations for the 10th World Junior Wushu Championships (2026) no longer use the old A/B/C age-group wording here. Instead, they list Youth Events, Junior Events, and Children's Events. The regulations also show that Youth Events use the 3rd Set of International Wushu Competition Routines and Junior Events use the 1st Set of International Wushu Competition Routines. So it is not accurate to say that only age groups C and B still compete with compulsory routines at the World Junior Wushu Championships.
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- 10th World Junior Wushu Championships Regulations (IWUF)
7.1.1 Youth Events ... 3rd Set of International Wushu Competition Routines ... 7.1.2 Junior Events ... 1st Set of International Wushu Competition Routines ... 7.1.3 Children's Events ... Elementary Routines.
Wushu was also a demonstration sport at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics at Nanjing
Official sources describe the 2014 Nanjing wushu competition as a separate cultural program, not a Youth Olympic demonstration sport on the official sports programme.
Full reasoning
This wording is inaccurate. The IWUF's own Olympic-history page says the 'Nanjing 2014 Wushu Competition' was approved by the IOC 'as [a] cultural program'. And the official Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games results book lists the sports on the Youth Olympic programme across 31 volumes, with no wushu volume or wushu sport entry. So the Nanjing event was held in conjunction with the Youth Olympic Games, but it was not an official demonstration sport on the YOG sports programme.
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- IWUF’s Path to the Olympics - IWUF
In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, the IWUF was approved by the International Olympic Committee to hold the 'Beijing 2008 Wushu Competition' and 'Nanjing 2014 Wushu Competition' in accordance with the Olympic model and standards, as cultural programs.
- Official results book : Nanjing 2014 / Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee
Vol.1 : Athletics ... Vol.31 : Beach volleyball.