Born on February 1, 1994 in Celje (Slovenia), Mihael Žgank is, first and foremost, a physical memory. The memory of randoris together – first at his home base, the Judo Klub Z’dežele Sankaku, then every following Christmas at the Italian training camp in Bardonecchia. The U90kg was barely out of his twenties at the time […]
Mihael Žgank – Coming Home Is Where the Real Journey Starts Read More »
Born on June 7, 1975 in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (France), Eric Gervasoni is first a name mentioned in autumn 2025 by Arthur Clerget, French U73kg champion in 2015 who has since his sporting retirement become a seeker of absolutes in the field of psychomotricity – and beyond. The conversation concerned a project at the crossroads of judo
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Born on March 30, 1988 in Bender (Moldova), Victor Scvortov is, on a personal level, strongly associated with the year 2014. At the end of January of that pivotal winter, a reportage in Ukraine brought us to sweat together during a ground randori at the Koncha Zaspa international training camp, in the snowy suburbs of
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Born on January 20, 2002 in Le Mans (France), Tiphaine Gingelwein belongs to the same generation as Romain Valadier-Picard and, on a different register from the 2025 world vice-champion, confirms that this generation — slated to sit their baccalauréat the year of Covid, one year ahead for Tiphaine — has real substance. It was a fellow
[FRA – Cet article est une traduction en anglais d’un article paru à l’hiver 2021 dans le magazine papier et sur le site Internet du bimestriel français L’Esprit du judo. ENG – This article is an English translation of an article published in winter 2021 in the print version and on the website of the French bimonthly magazine
Thierry Frémaux (2/2) – Judo in the Light (2021) Read More »
[FRA – Cet article est une traduction en anglais d’un article paru à l’hiver 2016 sur le site Internet du bimestriel français L’Esprit du judo. ENG – This article is an English translation of an article published in winter 2016 on the website of the French bimonthly magazine L’Esprit du judo.] Sunday 24 January 2016, the Institut Lumière in Lyon presented
Thierry Frémaux (1/2) – About The Legend of the Great Judo (2016) Read More »
[FRA – Cet article est une traduction en anglais d’un article paru au printemps 2017 sur le site Internet du bimestriel français L’Esprit du judo. ENG – This article is an English translation of an article published in spring 2017 on the website of the French bimonthly magazine L’Esprit du judo.] As a complement to the portrait of Polish judoka
Zakopane, or Lives Passing By (2017) Read More »
Born on 2 April 1996 in Lisbon (Portugal), Mariana De Carvalho Vidal Reis Esteves Teiga represented Guinea-Conakry in the U57kg category at the Paris Olympic Games, wearing the three colours of red, yellow and green. Three-time African Champion in 2023, 2024 and 2025, the representative of the country of Sekou Touré, Camara Laye and the
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The first quarter of the 21st century is now behind us. Clearly, the prospects for the one opening up seem, if not bleak, at least confused. Black Mirror and Oppenheimer in the short term? Children of Men in the medium term? Mad Max then Dune in the longer run? There’s something of all that in
From an Old Continent – Episode 3/13 – Winter 2026 Read More »
