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 ...
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 ...
TOKYO >> Naohisa Takato won Japan’s first gold medal at its home Olympics, beating Taiwan’s Yang Yung-wei in the men’s 60-kilogram judo final on Saturday night. Kosovo’s Distria Krasniqi beat Japan’s ...
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 ...