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 ...

The 2020 New Jersey Judo Open Championships was held Saturday at High Tech High School. 306 judoka competed ranging in age from 5- 59. The state competition has been going on for more than 40 years ...

TOKYO – Japan is the home of judo, and the 19th-century martial art is sure to get more attention at home than any other sport at next year's Tokyo Olympics. But it’s also drawing unwanted scrutiny ...

(Reuters) - The 2020 Tokyo Olympics includes 33 sports including Judo, which originated in host country Japan. Here are some key facts about judo at the Olympics. Introduced: Judo debuted at the 1964 ...

Judo is always a must-watch event at the Olympics, but this was particularly true in Tokyo. Japan is the sport's birthplace, and numerous Japanese judokas had the chance to win Olympic gold on their ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Just when Tokyo got a boost in its campaign to host the 2020 Olympics, a judo coach abuse scandal surfaced within the Japanese sporting culture and threatens to undermine the bid. Tokyo ...

TOKYO (AP) — Judo’s governing body has formally warned a coach who slapped a female athlete hard in the face twice to prepare her for an Olympic bout. German judoka Martyna Trajdos later defended ...

Azerbaijan continued their dominant form on the tatatmi on the second day of judo competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games here, winning three of the four golds on offer at Nippon Budokan. Sevda ...

She’s her sport’s youngest ever winner and has never been defeated outside of her native Japan. But judo phenomenon Uta Abe is just getting started. Only gold will do for the 17-year-old, with both ...