PARIS, April 7 (Reuters) - Double Olympic judo champion Teddy Riner believes that staging the Tokyo Games in 2021 will put all athletes on an equal footing after the sports extravaganza was postponed ...

Naohisa Takato won the final of the men's 60kg judo to give host nation Japan their first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics on ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Japan is the home of judo, and the 19th-century martial art is sure to get more attention at home than any other sport at next year’s Tokyo Olympics. But it’s also drawing unwanted ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Kosovo's judoka Distria Krasniqi won the gold medal in the women's -48kg category at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, beating Japanese rival Funa Tonaki in the final. Bronze medals ...

Kosovo has become a force to be reckoned with on the world judo stage. The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics has come as a bitter blow. For Distria Krasniqi, the postponement of the 2020 Olympics isn ...

Judo is always a must-watch event at the Olympics, but this was particularly true in Tokyo. Japan is the sport's birthplace, and numerous Japanese judokas had the chance to win Olympic gold on their ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Judo’s governing body has ...

TOKYO >> Japan is the home of judo, and the 19th-century martial art is sure to get more attention at home than any other sport at next year’s Tokyo Olympics. But it’s also drawing unwanted scrutiny ...

TOKYO (AP) — Judo’s governing body has formally warned a coach who slapped a female athlete hard in the face twice to prepare her for an Olympic bout. German judoka Martyna Trajdos later defended ...