[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 »
Born on 24 September 1981 in Pô (Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso), Hermann Monne represented the land of upright men on the international stage until spring 2016. Seven years earlier, at the end of a winter in 2009 — during which, over the course of an Air Algérie flight, the temperature had gone from 3°C
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Born on July 12, 1967 in Pyongyang (North Korea), Lee Chang-soo/Chang Su Li won a world medal in the U71kg category in 1989. He passed away on January 20, 2026 at the age of fifty-eight. His singular trajectory was poorly known in our latitudes. A memorial injustice now rectified by the ever-perceptive Oon Yeoh who,
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[FRA – Cet article est une reprise de la version anglaise originale d’un papier publié au printemps 2017 sur l’ancienne version du site Internet du bimestriel français L’Esprit du judo. Il n’était plus visible depuis la mise à jour dudit site à l’automne 2020. Le voici à nouveau. ENG – This article is a reprint
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The promise to approach judo “by words, beings and acts” on JudoAKD sometimes leads to joyful confluences. This is the case with the text below, reproduced with the kind permission of Rémi Guyot, its author. Rémi is a passionate and fascinating man. Not a judoka but far more martial and disciplined than many practitioners encountered
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“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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