Judo

The two-day competition, featuring 45 countries and 281 judoka, is the first international event for Japan's judo team since the Tokyo Games.

The IJF said the pair used the Games "as a platform for protest and promotion of political and religious propaganda," which breached its code of ethics and the Olympic Charter.

The retired Japanese judoka said he would love to see Riner match his own triple tally at Tokyo's historic Nippon Budokan arena.

Kageura broke a world championship drought for Japan in the men's over 100-kilogram division dating back to 2003 by defeating Russia's Tamerlan Bashaev in the final at Laszlo Papp Arena.

The Nagano native represented Japan before switching her competitive allegiance to Canada, her father's birthplace, to improve her chances of reaching the Olympics.

Shishime took the women's 52-kilogram category, recapturing the title she last won in 2017, before Maruyama went back-to-back as men's 66-kg world champion.

"I've decided to retire. I don't feel like I can compete on an international level anymore," Ebinuma said at a news conference in Tokyo.

Tokyo Olympic team member Uta Abe ended a 13-month layoff by winning the Tashkent Grand Slam's women's 52-kg division championship on Friday. Abe, who last competed in February 2020, won three-straight bouts by ippon starting from the second round, before her opponent in the final, ...

Japanese Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita on Friday hinted he may quit as the head of the All Japan Judo Federation following allegations one of its former executive officers engaged in harassment of a staff member. Yamashita said there have been no penalties imposed on ...