When did judo become an Olympic sport? The art of judo derives from the ancient Japanese martial art of jiu-jitsu. The credit for the formal founding of Judo, which means “the gentle way,” goes to Dr.

A judo competitor from Tajikistan refused to shake his Israeli competitor’s hand after beating him at the 2024 Paris Olympics — and then was subjected to immediate karma when he was beaten and left in ...

When Rafaela Silva applied the waza-ari that earned her the golden medal - the first won by Brazil in this Olympic Games -, Beatriz Lopes, 13, was watching the match at the same gym where the judoka ...