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Dushanbe GP
Ramzi Shamirov: Proud to Referee at Home

Ramzi Shamirov is an IJF referee and has also been working for the Tajikistan Judo Federation for many ...

Upper Austria GP
The Gift of Delays

When there are flight connections, perhaps heading to places not quite on the main drag, we often find ...

Tel Aviv GS 2023
A Responsibility to Excel

To be on the World Judo Tour is always really something.

Story
The Scope of Competitive School Judo

This week I attended a regional competition for school children in the UK.

Veteran Worlds
Effort Supersedes Most Things

Let’s begin from the premise that judo is hard. Let’s also accept that once it gets in your blood, ...

Refereeing: The New Gestures

Together with the new refereeing rules, implemented for the first time on the occasion of Grand Prix ...

Judo: A Living Being

There is always a certain excitement that arises when the doors of a World Judo Tour event open and the ...

Story
Family Spirit

While the health protocol is, rightly, at the heart of all concerns, so that all participants in the ...

Tokyo 2020
Refereeing: Quality first

The Olympic Games are fast approaching. For months, especially with the postponement of the event for ...

Referees in Focus
Quick Fire Round: Referees

They are always put under pressure, under the spotlight.

Refereeing Rules
Clarifications on the Refereeing Rules

Following the well attended and collaborative Refereeing Sport and Education Seminar in Doha at the beginning ...

REFEREEING
Lascau at the Service of the Refereeing Commission

While the Junior World Championships are underway in Marrakech and the senior season and Olympic qualification ...