The Tongan athlete competed in taekwondo in Rio ... Still, he's probably best known for carrying his country's flag in the Parade of Nations and stealing the show with traditional attire.

Pita Taufatofua, the shirtless Tongan flag bearer who won the hearts of viewers around the world during the past three Olympics, has announced that he won't be participating in the 2022 Beijing ...

There’s no masking those oiled-up muscles. Tongan flag bearer Pita Taufatofua set pulses racing yet again Friday as he returned shirtless and slathered in oil for his third Olympics — this ...

As the athletes for hundreds of nations entered Olympic Stadium, all eyes were on the nation of Tonga – specifically, flag-bearer Pita Taufatofua. Taufatofua has become a viral sensation over ...

Pita Taufatofua, international sensation and flag bearer of Tonga, qualified for his third Olympics, and he made his debut at the games in the only way he knows how: shirtless and slathered in ...

When he stepped into the lights of the stadium waving his flag, articles were already being written about the distractingly shiny Tongan flag bearer and Twitter was melting down. “The internet ...

Pita Taufatofua, the hunky Tongan flag-bearer from the Rio Olympics, is back and competing in the Winter Olympics Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest ...

You probably don’t even recognize his name. Taufatofua was the Tonga flag-bearer. Now do you remember? Two weeks ago, he walked into the Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremonies, his shirtless ...

How do you say "shirtless, oiled-up Olympian who stole the show at the opening ceremony" in Tongan? It's pronounced Pita Taufatofua. The taekwondo competitor who drew a roar from the crowd and ...

Pita Nikolas Taufatofua could win a gold medal in taekwondo, but his legacy from these Games is probably already cemented as the oiled-up, shirtless flag bearer for Tonga who turned heads and ...

As the Parade of Nations at the Olympic Opening Ceremony was droning on Friday night, the Tonga flag bearer Pita Taufatofua made a splash by leading his country into the stadium shirtless and ...

On Friday night, there was one flag bearer who garnered attention for what he wasn’t wearing. Tonga, a Pacific island nation of just over 100,000 people, chose Pita Nikolas Taufatofua ...