About an hour before her first Olympic fight, Nefeli Papadakis jogged alone around the Nippon Budokan, the revered arena where all of judo’s biggest names have competed. She has traveled by herself to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sanda Aldass fled her war-torn home of Damascus, Syria as a refugee to the Netherlands six years ago, leaving her husband and son behind. On Monday, the 31-year-old became an Olympian. Aldass, a ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Although these Olympics have been plagued by unprecedented challenges and many public setbacks for the host nation, they are already the most successful in Japan’s entire sporting history ...

PARIS (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 for a ...