Judo has an interesting history in the Commonwealths. Despite being an Olympic sport since the 1960s (the Commonwealth programme, whilst not being exactly the same tends to be similar to the Olympic programme), it only became an official Commonwealth sport in at the Auckland Games in 1990 and since that time has only been heldContinue reading “Judo at the 2022 Commonwealth Games”
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Martial Arts at the 2020 Olympics
In this post we’ll be looking at the ‘Martial Arts’ at this Summer’s Games. Or, if you prefer, the ‘Fighting Arts’ – Judo, Karate and Taekwondo. Wrestling, which could well be included will have its own post closer to that event’s start later in the Games. Fairly unsurprisingly, we should expect the home nation (andContinue reading “Martial Arts at the 2020 Olympics”
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