Dennis Van Der Geest and Cyrille Maret Share Their Passion for Judo
Several weeks have passed since the incredible Olympic and Paralympic Games that we experienced in the ...
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Lutalo Muhammad: An Olympic Medallist But a New Judoka
Among the media representatives in the mixed zone of the Paris Olympic Games was a face familiar to some, ...
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Hard Work Pays Off
It was with a big smile that Barbara Matic arrived in the early hours of the Zagreb Grand Prix 2024, ...
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The Legacy of the Paris 2024 Games
Vladimir Barta is the IJF Head Sport Director. The Paris 2024 Games were his fourth in this role. As ...
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A Formidable Accelerator
Alexandre Poutout, Olympic Games and Para-Judo Sport Manager Paris 2024, has been working non-stop for ...
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Olympic Referees at the Cadet Worlds
The Lima World Championships Cadets 2024 is taking place right now, the first global event after the ...
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Julien Goes Around the World (22)
For once, Julien was not on the other side of the world, but almost at home. He tells us about the fantastic ...
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11 Countries Win Gold in Paris, let's celebrate!
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games have been over for a few weeks, while the Paralympic Games are about to ...
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At the Olympic Games We Felt it All.
The Olympic Games was a special time for everyone involved, absolutely everyone. The athletes were one ...
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The Enduring Legacy of Judo: A Celebration of Tradition, Triumph and Global Growth at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Judo, a martial art that originated in Japan in 1882, has grown from its roots in the Kodokan school ...
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Barbara Matic: "We Grew Together"
On 31st July 2024 Barbara Matic realised not only her own dream but that of her home country, Croatia. ...
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Teddy Riner’s Historic Win at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
The judo competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were a dazzling display of skill and determination, ...
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Andreja Leski: the Gold Means I Have a Voice Now for Positive Change
On 30th July 2024, Andreja Leski extended the Slovenian stronghold on the -63 kg category, winning an ...
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The International Judo Federation Celebrates and Supports Judo at the 2024 Olympics
Several prominent figures from the International Judo Federation attended the Paris 2024 Olympics, demonstrating ...
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The Curtain Has Fallen on the Paris 2024 Games
On Sunday 11th August 2024 the curtain fell on the Paris 2024 Games, an edition of the Games that will ...
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Shirine Boukli: This Bronze Medal is Amazing
Shirine Boukli is 25 years old, both a world and Olympic medallist. Fighting at -48 kg, she’s the first ...
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Clarisse: Freedom is My Power
Clarisse Agbegnenou, after day 4 of the Paris 2024 Games: mum, 2021 Olympic champion, Olympic Mixed Team ...
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The IJF Celebrates its Champions and Partners
The judo tournament had barely ended when all the players who contributed to the success of the event ...
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Mexico's New Hero, Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz
On day 4 of the Olympic judo event, Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz broke the mould! Who would have thought Mexico ...
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26 Medal-winning Countries at Paris 2024
While the mixed team tournament is taking place this Saturday, 3rd August, at the Arena Champ-de-Mars, ...
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Thank You to All the Champions!
Time is a relative commodity. An event that the judo planet had been waiting for, for so many years and ...
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Teddy Confirms Legendary Status, Beatriz Souza Secures Gold for Brazil
What a day! Everyone had those words on their lips, as the final block of the seventh and final day of ...
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+78 kg: Beatriz Souza, an Incredible Olympic Champion
Beatriz Souza has become Brazil’s fifth ever Olympic champion after Aurelio Miguel, Rogerio Sampaio, ...
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Uzbek Olympic Champion Diyora Keldiyorova Donates Judogi to Olympic Museum
Diyora Keldiyorova, Olympic champion judoka, became a national hero in Uzbekistan on 28th July by winning ...
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+100kg: He Is a Legend!
It was the title that everyone was waiting for and that would conclude a week of individual judo competition ...
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+100kg: Preliminary Rounds
We were expecting it, we were ready for this last day of individual competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic ...
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Statement from the International Judo Federation (IJF) - 02/08/2024 (1)
Following the incident that took place at the end of the quarter-final between Teddy Riner (FRA) and ...
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+78 kg: Preliminary Rounds
AT the beginning of the day there were immediately notable moments. The first came from Marenco (NCA) ...
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Christa: I Succeeded in Every Way I Wanted To
For Christa Deguchi the mission is complete! After 8 years trying to get to the Games, she was finally ...
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-78 kg: Bellandi Pulls Rank!
Alice Bellandi began the day as world number one and ended it as Olympic champion, holding her ranking ...
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Felicita Bellandi! Kotsoiev Wins Second Gold for Azerbaijan
What a day that was! If yesterday we announced that 22 countries had already reached the podium of these ...
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Distria: We Are a Team, Not Just One Medal or Result
On day two of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Tokyo Olympic champion at -48 kg, Distria Krasniqi (KOS) ...
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-100kg: Kotsoiev Adds the Olympic Gold to the World Title
The final had to be exciting and it was, technically, tactically and emotionally. The more dangerous ...
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What the Draw Might Offer on Day Seven: +78 kg and +100 kg
Teddy Riner is the man to beat, surely. He’s the 6th seed but the undisputed king of the category. ...
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-78 kg: Preliminaries
The one balanced on top of the pedestal on day 6 was Alice Bellandi (ITA). She’s the world number one, ...
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-100kg: Preliminaries
There were some great people in the -100kg category, not that it wasn't the case in the other categories, ...
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First Ever Gold for Matic and Croatia, Bekauri Strikes Again for Georgia
The days follow one another and are similar while being fundamentally different from each other. They ...
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-90kg: Bekauri is a Magician for His Second Olympic Gold
This is probably a dream final that we could expect in Paris this year. The current Olympic champion, ...
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-70 kg: World and Now Olympic Champion, Barbara Matic (CRO)
A young Barbara Matic fought without result in Rio De Janeiro in 2016. Five years later she placed 5th ...
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What the Draw Might Offer on Day Six: -78 kg and -100 kg
Alice Bellandi sits at the top of the draw, the current world number one. She’s consistently on the ...
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-90 kg: Preliminaries
The man to watch in the -90kg category was obviously the reigning Olympic champion, Georgia's Lasha Bekauri. ...
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-70 kg: Preliminaries
The category leader arrived focused, prepared and decisive. Barbara Matic (CRO) left no room for doubt ...
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Building an Olympic Champion and Changing the World
On day two of the 2024 Olympic Games, Diyora Keldiyorova broke all records when she defeated the best ...
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Judo Is the Place to Be
Since the beginning of the judo week at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, our sport has been attracting crowds. ...
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-63 kg: Leski Takes the Title Back to Slovenia
The Olympic champion is Andreja Leski, the third Slovenian woman to win the title from the last 4 Olympic ...
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Nagase Confirms Double Olympic Gold, Leski Confirms Slovenian Supremacy
The day was full of twists and turns and it was difficult as the rounds went by to determine who would ...
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-81kg: Nagase Once Again Increases his Level to Reach Olympus
These are probably the best there is at the moment in the -81kg category with the reigning Olympic champion, ...
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What the Draw Might Offer on Day Five: -70 kg and -90 kg
Lasha Bekauri will arrive wearing his gold back patch but will he leave with it still in tact?
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-63 kg: Preliminaries
The queen is back at the Games and she wants to retain ownership of the title. Clarisse Agbegnenou has ...
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-81kg: Preliminaries
The -81kg category is always one that attracts crowds and the attention of judo fans. The show is guaranteed, ...
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Response to Allegations of Result Manipulation Raised by the Italian Judo Federation
Full transparency and fair, impartial refereeing, completely aligned with the IJF Refereeing Rules as ...
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Statement from the International Judo Federation (IJF) - 30/07/2024 (1)
Sajjad Sehen, representing the Republic of Iraq with a wild card in the -81kg category, was tested out-of-competition ...
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Twenty Years Later
Twenty years ago exactly, Frederique Jossinet won France’s only judo medal at the 2004 Athens Games. ...
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Yeldos Smetov, Olympic Champion
Yeldos Smetov first came to the World Judo Tour, competing in the Warsaw World Cup, as it was then, at ...
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Deguchi and Heydarov Are the Brightest Stars of the Day
Each day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has wonderful surprises and wonderful stories in store for us. ...
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-57 kg: Deguchi's Wait is Over
She did it! Christa Deguchi can finally add an Olympic gold to her two world championship golds. It has ...
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Heydarov Turns Everything Upside Down
How can you ask for more intensity? How can you ask for more commitment than that of the two finalists ...
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Everything is Going So Fast
She is smiling, happy to be here, enthusiastic. Marie-José Pérec, triple Olympic champion in athletics ...
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The Youngest Judo Fan
Karen Murakami is only 3 years old but is already an ardent judo fan having taken up the sport at the ...
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-57 kg: Preliminaries
This much-discussed category is stacked, piled high with world, Olympic and continental medallists. One ...
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-73kg: Preliminaries
Even if we could find the recent world champion, Hidayat Heydarov (AZE), at the top of the draw, he still ...
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Statement from the International Judo Federation (IJF)
On 28th July 2024 Messaoud Redouane Dris from Algeria was disqualified during the official weight control ...
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Lubomir Petr: To Enjoy it is the Point
To be an Olympic referee is something special, to do it 3 times is incredible! Lubomir Petr was a referee ...
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-52 kg: Uzbekistan's Prodigy Confirms Her Trajectory
The new Olympic champion is Diyora Keldiyorova! It is a first ever Olympic medal for a woman in Uzbek ...
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Diyora Keldiyorova Makes History and Hifumi Abe Wins Second Gold
On the second day of competition at the Olympic judo tournament in Paris, we had all the ingredients ...
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Hifumi Abe Scores the Double in Paris
There was no real suspense during the final between Hifumi Abe (JPN), the defending champion, and the ...
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Making History is Only the Beginning
History was made on the first day of the judo competition with Sweden winning their first ever Olympic ...
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-66 kg: Preliminaries
The day did not start well for Azerbaijan, who after the rapid defeat of Balabay Aghayev yesterday, once ...
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-52 kg: Preliminaries
The morning’s news is dominated on day two by the unexpected and early exit of Uta Abe, the current ...
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Winning and Losing, the Two Faces of Sport
Why do we love the Olympic Games and all major international competitions? Perhaps it is to experience ...
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Mohammad Rashnonezhad Is the First
Mohammad Rashnonezhad was the first of the six members of the refugee team to compete at the Arena Champ-de-Mars ...
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Pride and Responsibility
Christophe Massina will remember the Paris 2024 Olympic Games for a long time, for many reasons. First ...
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Angelo Parisi: the Olympics, the Flame and Paris
The Olympic Games is now and will always be a focal point to galvanise the meetings of friends, old rivals ...
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First Gold Medals Go to Japan and Kazakhstan
What will be remembered from this first day is the title of Yeldos Smetov (KAZ) in -60kg, who, nine years ...
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-48 kg: Tsunoda Takes the Biggest Prize of All
The new Olympic champion at -48 kg is Natsumi Tsunoda! She looked in a class of her own, only disturbed ...
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-60kg: Smetov Wins the Stars
Until the last second, the public believed in it, as did Luka Mkheidze who gave his all, but it was not ...
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Narvaez (PAR): Enjoying the Moment
Paraguay will be celebrating a great day at the Olympic judo event in Paris. Gabriela Narvaez is the ...
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-60kg: Preliminaries
As world number one, therefore seeded number 1 in the Olympic tournament, Yung Wei Yang (TPE) had the ...
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-48 kg: Preliminaries
Assunta Scutto began the day at the top of her sheet, the world number one, in pole position and the ...
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The Games Are Well Underway
The 2024 Paris Games have begun. We almost want to say finally, as the judo world has been waiting for ...
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The Opening was a Festival of Judo
Throughout the evening of Friday 26th July, Paris was awash with judoka from all over the world. We already ...
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What the Draw Might Offer on Day Four: -63 kg and -81 kg
Twenty-one year old Joanne Van Lieshout (NED) took over pole position at -63 kg after winning the Abu ...
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IJF Executive Committee Meet Ahead of the Paris 2024 Games
A few hours prior to the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and on the eve of the launch of the ...
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The Refugee Team is at the Games
The IJF Refugee Team for the Paris Olympic Games was announced back in May of this year:
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Honour and Pride
In just over 24 hours, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will open. In the meantime, there is one more celebration ...
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The Die Is Cast, But the Games Are Not Yet Over
The moment everyone has been waiting for, for years, is here; it’s just around the corner. In less ...
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What the Draw Might Offer on Day Three: -57 kg and -73 kg
World champions lead the categories on day three but they are squarely in the sites of others who have ...
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What the Draw Might Offer on Day Two: -52 kg and -66 kg
This is the day of the ultimate unseeded anomaly! The draw will facilitate the early exit of someone ...
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What the Draw Might Offer on Day One: -48 kg and -60 kg
The fight for ranking gets brutal towards the end often he Olympic qualification period. Those near the ...
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Remember this number: 122!
Remember this number: 122! Each edition of the Olympic Games is highly anticipated as the event looms ...
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Luukas Saha: The Gate is Open
Prior to the Qazaqstan Barysy Grand Slam in May, Luukas Saha (FIN) was ranked around 48th on the Olympic ...
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Judo Celebrates Gender Equality at the Paris 2024 Games
There are only eight days left before the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, just eight short days. ...
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We Are Proud
With nine days to go until the opening of the Olympic Games, today we are looking at the refugee team ...
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D-10 Before the Start of the Games, We Can't Wait Any Longer
The countdown has begun. From today, we only need two hands to count the days until the opening of the ...
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Ask for the Programme!
No-one will have missed it, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are fast approaching. While the first delegations ...
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The Olympic Champions (43): Teddy Riner (FRA)
Interviewing an Olympic champion is something special and always delivers thought-provoking words and ...
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Who Were They?
In a few weeks, we will know the new Olympic champions. Who are your favourites? The suspense is at its ...
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The Pivotal Moment
At 37, Axel Clerget (FRA) is a pillar of the French Judo team. Having participated in the last Olympic ...
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How Will You Enjoy the Paris Games?
There are only 20 days to go, fewer than twenty days to go. Paris is awash with banners, billboards, ...
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The Path is Beautiful
For those who are familiar with the Paris Grand Slam, he is no stranger. For judo lovers even less so. ...
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It Is Time to Know More About our Olympic Champions
If in a few weeks we will be more interested than ever in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games because if there ...
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The Fever Is Rising
As everyone counts down the days until the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the fever is gradually ...
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Antonio Esposito: Taking Nothing for Granted
Antonio Esposito has been working towards the Olympic Games since he first stepped on to the tatami and ...
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Who Will Participate in the Games?
For two years since the qualification period for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games began, the moment of the ...
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Something New Begins
In a few weeks, an Olympic cycle is about to reach its conclusion at the Paris 2024 Games. The day after ...
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Mother, Athlete and Member of the Refugee Team, Barbari Zharfi Mahboubeh Manages it All
Barbari Zharfi Mahboubeh is the last representative of the IJF Refugee Team who will be present this ...
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I Want to Help Refugees Achieve their Own Dreams
Arab Sibghatullah will compete this summer at -81kg at the Paris 2024 Games, as part of the IJF Refugee ...
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Jessica Klimkait: Holding My Breath
The Abu Dhabi World Championships 2024 saw an epic and honourable race come to an end, one that the judo ...
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Emma Reid: This Year Has Snowballed!
Emma Reid’s medal-winning performance at the Abu Dhabi World Championships 2024 will be remembered ...
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Christa Deguchi OLY
This is a story more than 7 years in the making. It has been followed closely by the world’s sports ...
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Team France: We Aren't Afraid to Participate at the Worlds
A week ago we noted that the Japanese team coming to Abu Dhabi would be an almost exclusively different ...
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1 in 100 Million
At Rio 2016, the first Refugee Olympic Team created by the International Olympic Committee represented ...
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Shirine and Sarah: Self-Control, Emotional Education and All the Right Feelings
Two of the selected home team for the Paris Olympic Games won bronze medals on day one of the Qasaqstan ...
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The Adventure Continues for the Refugee Team
It's now official, the refugee Olympic team has been announced by the International Olympic Committee ...
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One Big Step Closer to the Games
The Olympic Ranking List for judoka is competitive, analysed and monitored in fine detail by federations, ...
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Olympic Ranking List Heroes - Women
How long does it take to build a respectable Olympic ranking? A couple of good years, a whole Olympic ...
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Olympic Ranking List Heroes - Men
How long does it take to build a respectable Olympic ranking? A couple of good years, a whole Olympic ...
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Romane Dicko (FRA): Everything Pointed at Paris
World number one, world champion, already an Olympic medallist and with her ticket to the 2024 Games ...
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150 Days to Go, Part Three: Michael Korrel (NED) on Paris
Paris is a great city to visit for tourism and culture and, in this instance, also judo. The Institut ...
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150 Days To Go, Part Two: Why Promote the Biggest Sporting Event on Earth?
150 days to go! That’s all, just 150 days until we are revelling in the mastery and enormous joy the ...
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150 Days To Go, Part One: Getting a Feel For Paris
There are only 150 days left until the Paris Olympic Games opens its doors to our judo family, inviting ...
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Shirine Boukli: Being in This Team
Shirine Boukli is adored in Paris. She lit up the Accor Arena last weekend with her performances and ...
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Judo and Olympism Conference
Invited by Pierre de Coubertin to sit on the International Olympic Committee in 1909, Jigorô Kanô quickly ...
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What Does the Arrival of 2024 Mean to You?
For some, the arrival of a new year signals a moment to take a deep breath and re-ignite one’s resolve, ...
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200 Days to Go
Not long ago we were counting the years before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It is now in days that we ...
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Are You Ready?
Are you ready for an extraordinary year of judo? We are and we will support you throughout this season ...
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The World Number Ones: Men
We are here, already! It's 2024, Olympic year; Paris is around the corner and the race for seedings is ...
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France Judo Make First Stage Selections for Their Home Olympics
It isn’t the whole team just yet but we now have the first selections for the home team for the Paris ...
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Solidification
Jean-Luc Rougé is a keen observer of world judo, undoubtedly one of the most experienced experts and ...
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The Deep End
In February 2022, we left Patrice Rognon at the dawn of a new challenge. The day after the Paris Grand ...
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It's All About Collaboration
Vladimir Barta is the IJF Head Sport Director. During the Paris 2024 Games, he will also occupy another ...
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Successful Together
Larisa Kiss, Head of International Relations for the IJF, was an important observer of the test event, ...
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So Far So Good in Paris
If there are two people who know, inside out, all the nooks and crannies of organising a major sporting ...
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We Are Almost There
It is Saturday 27th July 2024, 10 a.m., the Grand Palais Ephémère, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower ...
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1 Year to Go until -78kg / -100kg
French judo legend Teddy Riner chases his third individual Olympic gold, with an entire nation behind ...
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1YearToGo until -78kg / -100kg
2 weight categories, 2 Olympic Gold medals. In preparation for @Paris2024, Lukas Krpalek is looking to ...
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1YearToGo until -70kg / -90kg
"My dreams will come true again" Olympic silver medallist Eduard Trippel imagines himself on the podium ...
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1YearToGo until -57kg / -73kg
From champion to legend - Ono Shohei. 2x Olympic champion Ono Shohei takes us through his victories, ...
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1 YearToGo until -52kg / -66kg
Can anyone stop the Abe siblings next year? In Tokyo 2020, Abe Uta and Abe Hifumi made Olympic history ...
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1YearToGo until -48kg / -60kg
In exactly one year today, the -48 and -60kg weights categories will compete for Olympic gold.
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EYOF is the Perfect Pre-Cursor
As today marks one year to go, just a year left to prepare, train, study and refine before the Paris ...
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The Games of a New Era Are Only a Year Away!
Everyone only talks about that, already, only thinks about that. Just turn on the TV or read the sports ...
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The Awakening of the Phoenix
Do you know Ugo Legrand (FRA) or should we say, do you remember Ugo Legrand? We definitely do. Born ...
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