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Lubomir Petr: To Enjoy it is the Point

To be an Olympic referee is something special, to do it 3 times is incredible! Lubomir Petr was a referee ...

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-52 kg: Uzbekistan's Prodigy Confirms Her Trajectory

The new Olympic champion is Diyora Keldiyorova! It is a first ever Olympic medal for a woman in Uzbek ...

Paris OG 2024
Diyora Keldiyorova Makes History and Hifumi Abe Wins Second Gold

On the second day of competition at the Olympic judo tournament in Paris, we had all the ingredients ...

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Hifumi Abe Scores the Double in Paris

There was no real suspense during the final between Hifumi Abe (JPN), the defending champion, and the ...

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Making History is Only the Beginning

History was made on the first day of the judo competition with Sweden winning their first ever Olympic ...

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-66 kg: Preliminaries

The day did not start well for Azerbaijan, who after the rapid defeat of Balabay Aghayev yesterday, once ...

Paris OG 2024
-52 kg: Preliminaries

The morning’s news is dominated on day two by the unexpected and early exit of Uta Abe, the current ...

Paris OG 2024
Winning and Losing, the Two Faces of Sport

Why do we love the Olympic Games and all major international competitions? Perhaps it is to experience ...

Paris OG 2024
Mohammad Rashnonezhad Is the First

Mohammad Rashnonezhad was the first of the six members of the refugee team to compete at the Arena Champ-de-Mars ...

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Pride and Responsibility

Christophe Massina will remember the Paris 2024 Olympic Games for a long time, for many reasons.

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Angelo Parisi: the Olympics, the Flame and Paris

The Olympic Games is now and will always be a focal point to galvanise the meetings of friends, old rivals ...

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First Gold Medals Go to Japan and Kazakhstan

What will be remembered from this first day is the title of Yeldos Smetov (KAZ) in -60kg, who, nine years ...