The mixed martial arts craze has apparently permeated the animal kingdom. Few events in nature are more exciting than a good, old-fashioned giraffe fight. However, one of these tall brawlers took ...

Friba Rezayee made history in 2004 when she became one of the first two Afghan women to compete at the Olympic Games. When the judoka competed in Athens, her father and one of her brothers told her it ...

Jigoro Kano – the “Father of Judo” – features on today’s Google Doodle. Illustrated by Cynthia Yuan Cheng, the Doodle celebrates the life of the legendary Japanese judo pioneer on what would have been ...

The International Judo Federation has decided to reinstate full national representation for Russian athletes at its ...

TOKYO, July 31 (Reuters) - France claimed the judo gold medal in the first mixed team event ever held in the Games on Saturday, beating Japan 4-1 in the final and helping their heavyweight legend ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Live competition coverage from the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics begins Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 10:00 p.m. ET on the NBC Sports app and NBCOlympics.com. NBCUniversal will ...

Israel is celebrating the victory of the country’s mixed team in judo which won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday. Israel beat Russia 4:1 in the group event that was held for the first ...

TOKYO — Right from the start, Colton Brown could sense the difference between judo and his other sports. It wasn’t like basketball and football, where trash talk was celebrated, contempt was ...

March 1 (Reuters) - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), on Monday, lifted the indefinite suspension imposed on the Iran Judo Federation for pressuring one of their fighters not to face an ...

TOKYO — Early on the last day of his judo career, Colton Brown climbed high into the Nippon Budokan’s stands. He needed to be alone with the world’s most prestigious judo arena. For 20 years, Brown ...

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Gibney is to exec produce MGM and Tadmor Entertainment’s limited series about judo champions Saeid Mollaei and Sagi Muki. It comes after Mollaei’s emotional silver medal win in the ...

Teddy Riner was trying to win gold in the over 100-kilogram class to tie Tadahiro Nomura’s record for consecutive golds. By Ken Belson TOKYO — Teddy Riner, perhaps the world’s most famous judoka, fell ...