The Olympic 100 kg judo competition was marked by a bizarre incident in which a Georgian competitor was disqualified after unsportsmanlike behavior towards Frenchman and favorite Teddy Riner. Riner’s ...

PARIS (AP) — The stands at Champs de Mars filled up quickly. One fan dressed in a white martial arts uniform waved a French flag back and forth. A woman next to him held up a poster with the face of ...

Aug 9 (Gracenote) - Olympic judo men's 81kg bronze medal match results in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday. Takanori Nagase (Japan) beat Avtandil Tchrikishvili (Georgia) 001s2-000 Sergiu Toma (United Arab ...

Adil Osmanov celebrated his Olympic bronze medal a bit too enthusiastically. After defeating Italy’s Manuel Lombardo in the Judo 73 kg weight class at Champ-de-Mars Arena on Monday, a gleeful Osmanov ...

The 2024 Olympics will continue the tradition of including combat sports, but there is one sport that has been put on the chopping block this time around. A competitor wins a judo match by throwing ...

PARIS — The French equivalent of Simone Biles stands 2 feet taller and weighs more than 200 pounds heavier. He, too, plies his trade on a mat, but in a three-piece cloth suit rather than one piece of ...

The Opening Ceremony, already scheduled for Friday, July 14, 2028, will officially begin the festivities before events ...

Want to Win an Olympic Medal? Try the Japanese Sport of Judo 4 minute read Korea's Hwang Ye-Sul (white) competes with Italy's Erica Barbieri (blue) during their women's -70kg judo contest match of the ...

The 2024 Olympics will continue the tradition of including combat sports, but there is one sport that has been put on the chopping block this time around. Judo is a martial art that originated from ...