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From an Old Continent – Episode 2/13 – Autumn 2025

« I learned hope from people who had every reason to despair, and didn’t. » Passing away on November 8, 2025 at eighty-one in a silence inversely proportional to the size of the imprint left by his writings and lectures over more than half a century devoted to dissecting and understanding what he called « contemporary disarray, » French

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Nigel Donohue (II) – About the Hajime-Matte Model

A few months after our interview published in spring 2025 (« Your time is your greatest asset », JudoAKD#035), Nigel Donohue, British Judo’s performance director from 2013 to 2025, publishes on LinkedIn a training model that sparks many reactions, to the point of being reproduced in full by the Spanish website JudoTraining. A look back at a

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Theódoros Tselídis – Between Greater Caucasus and Aegean Sea

Born Fiodor Nikolayevich Tselídi on August 5, 1996, in Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia-Alania, Russia), the Greek Theódoros Tselídis came to judo late, at fourteen years old. It was in 2011, the year of the coronation of his near-lookalike from Dagestan, Tagir Khaybulaev from the U100kg category, but also of the second of three world titles for Ilias

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