Olympic drunk 'beaten' by Judo star
Sebastian Coe said it was "poetic justice" that the man who threw a bottle at the 100m sprinters happened to be sitting next to a Dutch judo star.
Sebastian Coe said it was "poetic justice" that the man who threw a bottle at the 100m sprinters happened to be sitting next to a Dutch judo star.
France judo heavyweight Teddy Riner delivered Olympic gold with victory over Russian Alexander Mikhaylin at ExCeL.
Russia's Tagir Khaybulaev won the Olympic gold medal in the men's judo 100kg event today.
France's Lucie Decosse won gold in the women's -70kg category today, the country's first Olympic judo title for 12 years.
Slovenia's Urska Zolnir won her country's first Olympic judo gold on Tuesday, triumphing in the women's -63kg category.
Japan's Kaori Matsumoto won Olympic gold over Romanian Corina Caprioriu after the latter was disqualified during the Golden Score period in the women's under-57kg final at ExCeL.
Ireland's Lisa Kearney lost her judo bout to China's Wu Shugen in the under-48kgs division in the judo competition at the London Games.
Saudi Arabia's female judo competitor will fight at the London Olympics "without a hijab" the sport's chief said on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia will send female athletes to the Olympics for the first time with a judoka and an 800m runner representing the kingdom in London later this month.
History will cast a shadow over French giant Teddy Riner when he steps onto the mat at the ExCel Arena in London's Docklands on 3 August as favourite in the men's Olympics heavyweight judo category.
Japan is the birthplace of the Olympic sport of judo and the Japanese are by far the most successful team in its history but they will face a strong challenge from France in London.
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Lisa Kearney: 48kg - judo
Lisa Kearney will be the first woman to compete for Ireland in judo at the Olympics after securing her place at the London Games.
Ireland's Lisa Kearney made history in Birmingham when she became the first Irish Judo athlete to reach a World Cup final.
Much-hyped world champion Teddy Riner needed the extra golden score period to sneak past Anis Chedly of Tunisia in his first bout of the men's +100kg judo category on Friday.
World champion Teddy Riner saw his Olympic gold medal hopes end at the quarter-final stage of the men's +100kg judo competition at the Beijing Olympics on Friday.
Satoshi Ishii of Japan won the men's +100kg judo competition at the Beijing Olympics on Friday.
The shocks continued in the Olympic judo competition in Beijing on Wednesday as a host of champions past and present saw their gold medal hopes go up in smoke.
Japan's Masae Ueno became the third Japanese judoka to retain her Olympic title, beating Anaysi Hernandez of Cuba in the final to win gold in the women's 70-kg category on Wednesday.