Tag: Teddy Riner
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Paris 2024 celebrates Teddy Riner movie premiere at Cannes Film Festival
By Robert Fawdon, Paris, May 22, 2016: A delegation from the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid has this weekend traveled to the iconic Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of the movie ‘In the shadow of Teddy Riner’ – a feature length film covering the last three years of the legendary Judoka’s life.…
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Les Bleus Win Athlete of the Year Award
Germany, Jan 15, 2014: Radio France announced on Wednesday that the men’s basketball senior national team in its entirety has been elected by the public as the French Athlete of the Year (Le Sportif Français) for 2013. The French national team, who conquered the EuroBasket 2013 title last September in Slovenia in what was their…
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Teddy Riner Elected New President
Rio de Janeiro, Sept 01, 2013: Six-time senior world champion Teddy Riner was announced as President of the IJF Athletes Commission at the Maracanazinho on Sunday. Photo Caption: Alina Dumitru (ROU), Olympic Champion, voting to elect the President of the IJF athlete commission. Photo Caption: Teddy Riner (FRA), Olympic Champion and 6 time World Champion,…
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Gold for Cuba and for France Women/Men
London – GBR, August 03, 2012: Teddy Riner has finally confirmed that he is one of the greatest judoka of all time, after winning the Olympic gold medal in the +100kgs category of the 2012 London Olympic Games. In the +78kgs Idalys Ortiz won Cuba’s first gold medal of the tournament, meaning that in addition…
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Judo Grand Slam, Paris 2012 – Last and final Day
Paris-France, Feb 06, 2012: Judo Grand Slam Paris, Men’s -81kg: Olympic Champion, Ole Bischof is Back in the Race: The category of the men’s -81kg was really open as most of the top ranked athletes were absent. Therefore, at the beginning of the day, to make a forecast was quite complicated. But to find Ole…