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Deguchi responds to Klimkait's victory. Judo Astana Grand Slam recap

  • Judo

The last Judo Grand Slam tournament before the 2024 World Championships in Abu Dhabi took place in Astana, Kazakhstan on 10-12 May.

IJFOther top seeds to win gold medal in Kazakhstan were Gefen Primo (Israel), Manuel Lombardo (italy)

Gefen Primo (Israel)2. Larissa Pimenta (Brazil)3. Ayumi Leiva Sanchez (Spain)3.

Peter Paltchik (Israel)Men’s +100 kg1. Tatsuru Saito (Japan)2. Temur Rakhimov (Tajikistan)3.


Leftist party asks Spain to renounce Olympics in pro-Palestine show of support

  • Olympic Games History

has asked current president Pedro Sanchez to pull the country out of Paris 2024 and sever ties with Israel

welcome and asked for the country to renounce going to the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Paris if Israel

be inconsequential if not backed by other measures like severing political and diplomatic ties with Israel

also called for Spain to join the International Court of Justice’s lawsuit in South Africa against Israel


GAMMA interviews MMA Prospect Veronika Zajicova

  • GAMMA

Among the thirty-five athletes that the Czechia MMA Association sent to neighbouring Slovakia this week for GAMMA’s 2024 European Championships is returning medallist Veronika Zajicova. The Global Association of Mixed Martial Arts (GAMMA) sat down with the 52.2kg prospect to talk about her career. 

national championships level in 2023, a No-Gi gold (Czech Republic), and a No-Gi gold and Gi silver (Israel


Four reigning world champions win gold medals at SAMBO European Championships

  • Sambo

Individual athletes from Russia (FIAS 1) won a total of 23 medals at the 2024 SAMBO European Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia, on 9-10 May, topping the medal table with 13 gold medals. Only 3 Russian athletes went home without a medal.

Shaked Nisimian (Israel)2. Anhelina Lysenko (Ukraine)3. Iana Poliakova (FIAS 1)80 kg1.


Badminton Olympic Qualifiers finalised

  • Badminton

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has released the official list of athletes set to compete at the Olympics after concluding the 2024 BWF Thomas & Uber Cup Finals. A total of 173 athletes have qualified for a spot at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Ying (Chinese Taipei), Lianne Tan (Belgium), Tse Ying Suet (Hong Kong China), and Misha Zilberman (Israel


Guinea secure final ticket to Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Guinea's U-23 football team booked their place at the Olympic tournament in Paris with a play-off victory over Indonesia. Ilaix Moriba scored the only goal of the match in the French town of Clairefontaine.

Ukraine and Iraq.Group C: Spain, Egypt, Dominican Republic and Uzbekistan.Group D: Paraguay, Mali, Israel


Israel’s wrestlers will not compete in Turkey’s Olympic qualifier

  • Wrestling

No to Istanbul means no to Paris 2024 for the five athletes from the national team who opted out of the tournament. After the suspension of commercial relations by Turkey, the Israeli Security Agency barred its wrestling delegation from competing and shut down their hopes of Olympic participation.

finalists and one to the winner of the wrestle off between the two bronze medalists.lana Kratysh, of Israel


Macron thanks Xi for backing 'Olympic truce'

  • Olympics

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday thanked his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for backing his idea of a truce in all conflicts, including the war between Russia and Ukraine, during the Paris Olympics this summer, Agence France-Presse reported. 

such as the war between Russia and Ukraine on Ukrainian territory since February 2022, the war between Israel


Bach: 'Paris 2024 opening ceremony will be on the Seine'

  • Paris 2024

The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, confirmed this Friday that the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will take place between 26 July and 11 August, will be held on the Seine.

Asked if he had been in contact with Benjamin Netanhayu (Israel), Volodymir Zelenski (Ukraine) or Vladimir

they cannot take part in a parade with the delegations," he added.Bach also discussed the situation in Israel

was "completely different" from the "30 years of peaceful coexistence" of the Olympic committees in Israel


International World Games Association AGM concludes in Esslingen, Germany

  • World Games

Around 100 delegates and 29 International Member Federations with voting rights attended the International World Games Association (IWGA) AGM where the IWGA Athletes Committee, Women's leadership programme, Sustainability Strategy, and cooperation with National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and National Sports Organisations (NSOs) were among the topics discussed.

NOCs.Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) have already been established with the Austrian, Chinese, French, Israel


Pro-Palestinian protesters urge limits on Israel's Olympic participation

  • Summer Olympics

Several hundred pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered on Tuesday, demanding restrictions on Israel's involvement in the Paris 2024 Summer Games in the French capital, insisting they should be treated like Russia and compete under a neutral flag.

despite their military actions in Gaza since 7 October, when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel

hostages.According to Gaza health officials, over 34,000 Palestinians have died in the ensuing conflict between Israel

“We cannot say that Israel is attacking,” Macron said.

Israel was a victim of a terrorist attack to which it is now responding to in Gaza.”


Ex-England cricketer Monty Panesar standing for election in London

  • Cricket

The Workers Party of Britain (WPB) is fielding Panesar, who played 50 Tests for England between 2006 and 2013, as one of 200 candidates in the capital. He will be standing in the Ealing Southall constituency.

cricket player was chosen by Galloway, who won re-election last March after expressing his outrage at the Israel-Hamas


Olympic medallists clash in final of WT President's Cup

  • Taekwondo

The 2024 edition of the World Taekwondo President's Cup - Europe was held in Tallinn, Estonia on 26-28 April. The adult division had some star names among the participants.

Santos of Brazil in the final, while Wang was stronger than Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Avishag Semberg (Israel


Has Umar Kremlev won?

  • Boxing

Baron Pierre de Coubertin conceived the Olympic Games at the end of the 19th century as a revival of the competition that had brought glory to ancient Greece, with an increasingly forgotten double motive: to defend sport against political interests and to celebrate amateurism.

Ukraine contrasts with the Thomas Bach-led organisation's lukewarm attitude to the armed conflict between Israel


20 nations win medals at European Rowing Championships

  • Rowing

The 2024 European Rowing Championships and the World Rowing European Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regatta came to a close on Sunday in Szeged, Hungary, with Romania winning the women's eight in style.

The European Rowing Championships are open to the 46 European national rowing federations, including Israel