« 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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At the Senate, then behind closed doors. The 2025 All Saints’ Day weekend saw two significant events take place in Paris for anyone who has written and reflected on the theme of violence in sport in general, and in judo in particular. Taking the lead during these intense forty-eight hours through his association, Artémis Sport,
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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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A year and a half has passed since our first interview with Kevin Cao (Where Silences Have the Floor, JudoAKD#005). A little over a year as well since we crossed paths on a final day of the 2024 Paralympic Games rich in emotions both French and foreign. In this autumn of 2025, the journalist from
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Born on February 8, 1991, in Zevenhuizen (Netherlands), Kim Polling first made a thunderous entrance. Paris, February 10, 2013. A clamor in the warm-up area. On the giant screen, the unthinkable. Lucie Décosse, Olympic title holder and winner of the last two World crowns, six-time winner of the French Grand Slam, had just been lifted
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[FRA – Cet article est une traduction en anglais d’une brève publiée en février 2015 sur le site Internet du bimestriel français L’Esprit du judo. Revenue sur le circuit international début 2022 après une éclipse de près de huit années, la -48 kg désormais âgée de 35 ans, qui combat à présent sous les couleurs
Hasta Luego María Celia Laborde (2015) Lire la suite »
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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Born on August 17, 1965 in Lyon 4th district (France), Pierre Neyra is blowing out both his sixty candles and celebrating his half-century license in this year 2025. Technical director of the Ain department for three decades, the Saint-Denis Dojo instructor has added another string to his fourth dan bow in recent years: numerous trips
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In the bright days of 2025, Joan-Benjamin Gaba (U73kg) and Inal Tasoev (O100kg) achieved more than just becoming World champions in their respective categories. The two judokas took a risk by stepping outside the box in a way that was not obvious given the codes of the discipline that made them kings: the Frenchman released
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