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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 […]

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

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

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

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

Born on February 17, 1974 in Chisinau (USSR until 1991, Moldova since), Vitalie Gligor is one of those precious encounters that judo word-of-mouth makes possible. It goes back to autumn 2023, on the occasion of an extraordinary exchange with the all-too-rare Andrzej Sadej from Judo Canada. The initial topic concerned the sustanable development of judokas.