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...Judo means "the gentle way" in Japanese, but there's nothing gentle about Kosei Inoue as he grapples with a teammate at an Olympic training camp near Nagano in Japan. The stuffy gymnasium reverberates with the drum roll of bodies slamming off the mats as Inoue, an Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion, grips his sparring partner, a baby-faced giant considerably larger than the 100-kg Inoue. The pair crashes together, then ricochets in a flailing knot off the mats and out of bounds, nearly crushing a Time reporter with a total of more than...
...Asians have long monopolized the indigenous martial-arts events that feature in the Olympics?judo and Taekwondo?and the region's athletes routinely pop up on the medal podium for grinding full-contact disciplines like boxing and wrestling. In Athens, Asians will be competitive in more sports than ever before, but their best hopes for glory still lie in those that require creative methods of inflicting physical punishment...
...JUDO Marie-Helene Chisholm, Varennes, Que. Amy Cotton, Judique, N.S. Nicolas Gill, Montreal Carolyne Lepage, Boucherville, Que. Keith Morgan, Calgary Catherine Roberge, Montreal...
...glad to be doing something sporty. At 9, he'd come down with a rheumatic illness. Sports were off-limits. He recovered at 13, "a present from God," he says. "When I started to do sports, it was just to be part of the normal population." His first choice: judo. "Bruce Lee!" he exclaims, a grin stretching across his bronzed face. "Everybody wanted to be Bruce Lee!" But this was Poland, 1981 - the communist regime had imposed martial law to suppress opposition, and the authorities didn't like the idea of all those teens gathering nightly to chop and kick...
...somewhat open to outside reform, the CIA is ever on guard against it. The agency has always been better than the FBI at doing bureaucratic judo, working the press or finding a CLASSIFIED stamp for documents that it may not want to see the light of day. The commission found and disclosed a number of these last week that suggested the CIA was slow to report, if not detect, the jihadist army that was forming on the horizon in the 1990s. The commission reported that though al-Qaeda was formed in 1988, the CIA "did not describe" the organization comprehensively...