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
Jigoro Kano Couldn’t Have Said It Better Read More »
“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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