France claimed the judo gold medal in the first mixed team event ever held in the Games on Saturday, beating Japan 4-1 in the final and helping their heavyweight legend Teddy Riner add to his ...

They give me energy so I can perform properly throughout the day,” said Mkheidze, 28, after France defeated Japan in the Olympic mixed team judo final on Aug. 3. Mkheidze took home the silver ...

the French Judo Federation announced Monday. Riner has not fought since the Paris Games last summer, where he won a third individual Olympic heavyweight title (+100 kg) and a second team gold.

Watch as Shirine Boukli wins her bronze medal match in the women's under-48kg judo to give France their first medal of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Up Next. From gym to SPOTY red carpet - behind ...

Medals were the top goal at the 2024 Olympics, but what else ... the 2024 Paris Games was headlined by Team USA's gold medal in men's basketball against France, along with the men's and women's ...

Arguably one of the greatest judo contestants of all ... a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Meanwhile, France won the ...

The men's heavyweight judo division in Atlanta promised a clash of Goliaths named David: the 1992 Olympic gold medalist David Khakhaleishvili of Georgia (the former Soviet republic, not the Peach ...

Oh and the French very excited here. It's silver medallist Sarah Leonie Cysique against bronze medallist Tsukasa Yoshida in ...

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 ...