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Paris OG 2024
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 ...

Paris OG 2024
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 ...

Paris OG 2024
Twenty Years Later

Twenty years ago exactly, Frederique Jossinet won France’s only judo medal at the 2004 Athens Games. ...

Paris OG 2024
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. ...

Paris OG 2024
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 ...

Paris OG 2024
Everything is Going So Fast

She is smiling, happy to be here, enthusiastic. Marie-José Pérec, triple Olympic champion in athletics ...

Paris OG 2024
-73kg: Preliminaries

Even if we could find the recent world champion, Hidayat Heydarov (AZE), at the top of the draw, he still ...

Paris OG 2024
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 ...

Paris OG 2024
Hifumi Abe Scores the Double in Paris

There was no real suspense during the final between Hifumi Abe (JPN), the defending champion, and the ...

Paris OG 2024
-66 kg: Preliminaries

The day did not start well for Azerbaijan, who after the rapid defeat of Balabay Aghayev yesterday, once ...

Paris OG 2024
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 ...

Paris OG 2024
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 ...