The Iran Judo Federation called it’s suspension from international competition “unfair” after it was banned from all competitions for trying to make judoka Saeid Mollaei withdraw from the World Judo ...

An awards broadcast for both years premiered on YouTube, and opened with a message from EJU President Sergey Soloveychik. Some of the awards were presented to the winners in-person, while others ...

The International Judo Federation is encouraging people to plant trees as part of this year's World Judo Day celebrations ©IJF An environmental-theme has been announced today for the 2019 celebration ...

Jack Hatton, one of America’s top judo players, died this week just days after turning 24, the sport’s governing body announced Wednesday. The 2020 Olympic hopeful, who celebrated his birthday last ...

Still, regardless of the outcome at the Olympics, Harrison was ready to call it quits. She had been training in judo for 20 years and didn’t find much pleasure doing so anymore. “I wasn’t learning ...

Jack Hatton, a member of the U.S. national judo team and a 2020 Olympic hopeful, seemed on the verge of attaining everything he had worked for in the sport when he died Tuesday, four days after his ...

Iran was suspended from international competition by the International Judo Federation (IJF) on Wednesday for putting pressure on one of its fighters to withdraw from the world judo championships to ...

Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei will be welcomed home “like a champion” despite ignoring what he says were government instructions to withdraw from judo’s World Championships to avoid a clash with an ...

Olympic hopeful Jack Hatton, a member of the U.S. national judo team, died just four days after his 24th birthday, the sport's governing body announced Wednesday. Details of Hatton's death were not ...

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TEL AVIV (JTA) — When he immigrated to Israel from his native Ukraine in the early 1990s, judo master Igor Romanitsky was already resigned to quitting the sport professionally and pursuing a medical ...