The IJF, International Judo Federation, has suspended Russian President Vladimir Putin from the post of honorary president and ambassador of the organization.
The official announcement was published on the Federation website “in light of the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine”.
Putin is the best known practitioner of the discipline founded by Japanese professor Jigoro Kano. He has been practicing it since the age of thirteen and he has also dedicated a book translated into various languages to judo. The 2011 Italian edition is entitled ‘Learn judo with Putin. The history, the technique, the preparation ‘.
