A family trip back to Slovenia, to the legendary Marjan Fabjan’s Judo Klub Z’Dezele Sankaku in Celje. – JudoAKD#004. A French version of this article is available here. Nine years have passed. Nine years since this April 2015 report, made just one week after returning from a trip to Scotland. Lost luggage […]
Born on January 7 1978, in Lyon, “Lolo” has been a pillar of the Dojo Olympic for two decades, a club in the third district of the capital of the Roman Gaul which, in 2023, has reached its personal Graal: a seventh place in the French senior team championships. The culmination of a long journey
Laure-Cathy Valente – Lyon, Third Generation Lire la suite »
Born on April 14 1986, in the island of La Réunion, World University champion, European U23 runner-up and Lucie Décosse’s replacement at the Beijing Olympics, the U63kg was one of the many comets of French judo. For three years, which spanned from the Rotterdam World Championships in 2009 to the London Olympics in 2012, I
Emmanuelle Payet – This Island Within Herself Lire la suite »
Born on August 27, 1990 in Nice, France, Loïc Pietri is one of the most impressive names in French men’s judo. National, European and World champion in 2009 in his final junior season, he went on to become one of the international stalwarts in the U81 kg category, with six consecutive European and World podium
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He’s this kind of shadow coming back from ages that most of the 20-years old people have even never heard about… We’ve met the last king of the U95kg category in his homeland of Poland. The interview was almost a week long, which was the appropriate time needed to try to talk about such a
Pawel Nastula – The Leftover (2017) Lire la suite »
