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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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A History of Violence(s)

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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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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