PARIS, April 7 (Reuters) - Double Olympic judo champion Teddy Riner believes that staging the Tokyo Games in 2021 will put all athletes on an equal footing after the sports extravaganza was postponed ...
TOKYO — Yosh Uchida made a promise to Colton Brown in 2016, right after Brown competed in judo for the United States at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics: Qualify for the 2020 Games in Tokyo and I’ll be ...
About an hour before her first Olympic fight, Nefeli Papadakis jogged alone around the Nippon Budokan, the revered arena where all of judo’s biggest names have competed. She has traveled by herself to ...
USA Judo announced Monday that Colton Brown, Angelica Delgado, Nefeli Papadakis and Nina Cutro-Kelly will all be making the trip to Japan. It was also announced that Maria Liana Mutia, Robert Tanaka ...
Judo is coming home at the Tokyo Olympics, and the Japanese team is under a world of pressure. Fortunately for the host nation, this powerhouse group of athletes is eager to rise to the momentousness ...
* Men and women compete in seven weight categories, ranging from under 60kg to over 100kg for men, and under 48kg to over 78kg for women. * Judo, meaning "gentle way", involves throwing or taking down ...
TOKYO — The moment, the revered location and the timing did not escape Naohisa Takato. The Tokyo Olympic Games were delayed a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and they are mired in controversy ...
TOKYO — Early on the last day of his judo career, Colton Brown climbed high into the Nippon Budokan’s stands. He needed to be alone with the world’s most prestigious judo arena. For 20 years, Brown ...
In a building in a busy neighborhood in central Tokyo, Olympians from around the world pay tribute to their sport inside its spiritual home. By Tariq Panja TOKYO — Edson Madeira was struggling to ...
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