In the minutes before Teddy Riner entered the arena, Paris 2024 volunteers filled the aisles with phones set to record and security guards peered in from the gangways, trying to snatch a glimpse. A ...

PARIS (AP) — The stands at Champs de Mars filled up quickly. One fan dressed in a white martial arts uniform waved a French flag back and forth. A woman next to him held up a poster with the face of ...

It’s always thrilling when a host country’s athlete wins a gold medal, leading to a huge crowd response. Sometimes the announcers get really carried away, too. That happened Friday when French judoka ...

PARIS — Two and a half hours before 17,000 fans rocked the bleachers of La Défense Arena, waving French flags, making so much noise another swimmer said he could hear it through his headphones and ...

PARIS — Teddy Riner earned the decisive victory as France defended its Olympic title in mixed team judo on Saturday night, beating Japan in the final for the second straight Games. After Riner secured ...

The Olympic 100 kg judo competition was marked by a bizarre incident in which a Georgian competitor was disqualified after unsportsmanlike behavior towards Frenchman and favorite Teddy Riner. Riner’s ...

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic cauldron when they set alight the Mathieu Lehanneur-designed boiler in Paris on Friday. It looked as if ...

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PARIS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Frenchman Teddy Riner claimed a record fourth Olympic judo gold medal, sending the partisan crowd into near madness when he left it late to beat world number one Kim Minjong ...

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