Born on June 1, 1994 in Mantes-la-Jolie (France), the young thirty-something isn’t the most talked-about judoka on the circuit, but he’s certainly someone who deserves to be. No direct family ties: our first two encounters date back to 2014. In spring in Lyon, between two doors during the French junior championships. Then in autumn in […]
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Born on February 2, 1957 in Málaga (Spain), Paco Lozano Martín won his first Kodak camera in a competition when he was 12, and took up judo a year later in Nyon (Switzerland) – a country where he grew up until he was 16. A third-dan black belt, husband and father of judokas, he taught
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Retour sur la distinction obtenue en juin 2024 par un court-métrage de collégiens lyonnais qui s’appuie sur le judo pour faire passer un message d’augmentation de soi. – JudoAKD#007. Casque sur les oreilles, parka-capuche et Eastpak sur les épaules, une silhouette progresse de dos sous les néons d’un couloir au son d‘’Enemy’ d’Imagine Dragons.
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Né le 2 avril 1979 à Harfleur, Frédéric Lecanu est la version tricolore et Jigoro Kano de The Voice. Commentateur, animateur mais surtout metteur en mots, le Français sillonne l’Hexagone depuis 2013 au service de l’équipe de France et d’une haute idée du judo. Né à l’exacte intersection des jougs David Douillet (né en 1969)
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Né le 20 mai 1989 à Paris XIIIe, ce journaliste du quotidien Le Populaire du Centre vit à Limoges depuis ses cinq ans. Respecté pour sa couverture à hauteur d’âmes du sport local, il a la particularité de mettre en lumière avec constance deux angles morts du judo français : la province et le handicap.
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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
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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
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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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