Last year’s European BHSE champion is the 14th Polish in the world rankings He started with Julia Kowalczyk in the Nippon Budokan Hall. Péter Toncs’s student initiated more, but did not find a catch on his opponent. It was a minute and a half from the clash when Karakas tried to start again, but Kowalczyk … Read more
Sport Athletes are changing their nationality more and more often. The German judoka Marie Branser, for example, became a citizen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to be able to compete in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The Chinese table tennis player Xiaona Shan has already won the silver medal with Germany … Read more
Judge Lukáš Krpálek. Stock photo archive of Lukáš Krpálek – Krpálek entered the Grand Slam as the world number one. He did not succeed in the semi-heavyweight semifinals as well as in the November European Championships against Tamerlane Bashayev from Russia, four months ago in Prague it was in the quarterfinals. However, he made his … Read more
The French federation (FFJDA) tried to correct the situation this weekend, after being informed by mail on Friday February 26 that its international counterpart (IJF) intended to cancel the Paris Grand Slam, scheduled for May 8 and 9. In vain. This Tuesday evening, the IJF confirmed its choice and the attribution of the qualifying event … Read more
Chairman Yasuhiro Yamashita (63) held a press conference at the Kodokan in Tokyo on the 26th, following allegations of power harassment by the former secretary general of the All Japan Judo Federation (All Japan Judo Federation). The former secretary-general retired in January of this year due to personal reasons without communication. He emphasized that he … Read more
Judoka Michael Korrel won gold at the Tel Aviv Grand Slam on Saturday. The 26-year-old Dutchman won in the final in the class up to 100 kilograms against the Israeli Peter Paltchik and for Jur Spijkers and Marhinde Verkerk there was bronze. Korrel, who took bronze at the 2019 World Cup and won the World … Read more
Czech judoka Lukáš Krpálek (left) in a duel in the quarterfinals of the European Championships in Prague against Tamerlane Bašajev from Russia. Vít Šimánek, ČTK – Krpálek, who is completing his first tournament in eleven months today, surpassed 30-year-old Sasson in all three previous matches, but this time he did not have an easy job. … Read more
As at other international sporting events of this time, pre-start tests are mandatory. Krpálek did not pass. “Unfortunately, pre-departure tests have shown me that I am positive for covid,” he said. He was sorry. “I was so looking forward to my first races, which are to be in Budapest this weekend,” he lamented. Last week, … Read more
Bronze medalist at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992 then world champion in 1994 and 1995, David Douillet, then 27 years old (51 years old today), arrives in the skin of the immense favorite at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, which for him “is something new to deal with”. “I have never been a … Read more