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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO, July 31 (Reuters) - France claimed the judo gold medal in the first mixed team event ever held in the Games on Saturday, beating Japan 4-1 in the final and helping their heavyweight legend ...

TOKYO — Right from the start, Colton Brown could sense the difference between judo and his other sports. It wasn’t like basketball and football, where trash talk was celebrated, contempt was ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Although these Olympics have been plagued by unprecedented challenges and many public setbacks for the host nation, they are already the most successful in Japan’s entire sporting history ...

PARIS (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 for a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Gibney is to exec produce MGM and Tadmor Entertainment’s limited series about judo champions Saeid Mollaei and Sagi Muki. It comes after Mollaei’s emotional silver medal win in the ...

Jigoro Kano – the “Father of Judo” – features on today’s Google Doodle. Illustrated by Cynthia Yuan Cheng, the Doodle celebrates the life of the legendary Japanese judo pioneer on what would have been ...