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YOG Dakar 2026
Turikumwe: Twenty Years for a Dream

In the early 2000s, I began travelling regularly to Burundi as part of a development project centred ...

Asian Para Games 2026
Environmental Perception Changes the Game

Writing about judo often revolves around what we can see: the big ippon, the satisfied smile of a winner, ...

Baku World Championships 2026
Brazil vs China: When Paper and Tatami Have Different Ideas

With a world number 2, a world number 4 and a current Olympic champion, Brazil looked set to dominate ...

Athletes Stories
Back Where It All Changed: Saeid Mollaei Returns to Baku

Eight years ago, the National Gymnastics Arena was the stage for the finest day of Saeid Mollaei’s ...

Baku World Championships 2026
Catching the Win Against the Run of Play

We say it often that judo is a sport of instants, moments as much as consistency.

Green Dojo
Club Náutico Hacoaj Becomes Panamerica’s First IJF Green Dojo

For Club Náutico Hacoaj, judo has always been about more than sporting achievement.

Gender Equality
Five Months, a Lifetime: Clarisse Agbegnenou’s Return to the Tatami

Clarisse Agbegnenou owns one of the most extraordinary records in French and international sport.

Athlete Stories
Diyora Keldiyorova: Everything is Possible

In the summer of 2024, a young judoka, a girl from Samarkand not raised in any of the big cities of the ...

Commonwealth Games 2026
British Family Connections on the Podium

Unlike the Olympic Games where entries represent single sovereign UN member states and countries with ...

Interview
Julien Goes Around the World (42)

French judoka and coach Julien Brulard continues his Judo Nomad project round the world, travelling across ...

News
Technical Development: a Different Angle

The now long-established World Judo Tour has become a benchmark for the presentation of high-level sport ...

Editorial
Being Coached By a Legend

The world’s best athletes, in any sport, become legends, sometimes for the people of their own nation ...