Japanese martial arts

Children can return to school in person, but with mandatory testing twice a week, and teachers will either have to have a green certificate or be tested as well. These decisions were made last week. Thousands of questions followed about how this would happen and whether anyone's rights were being violated.

It's practiced by tens of millions around the world but there's no doubt that judo's spiritual home is Japan, where the martial art was created and made its Olympic debut.

It will be among the sports most closely watched by home fans at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games, and is so deeply embedded in Japanese society it even has its own branch of medicine.

Romanians Alina Zaharia and Alina Cheru won gold medals in the Ju No Kata event, this weekend, at the European Judo Kata Championships in Warsaw. Zaharia and Cheru took the first place in the final, with 424 points, followed by Austrians Hanna and Paula Peinsipp, 406 points, and Italians Laura Bugo and Barbara Bruyni Cerchier, 396.5 points.

Romanian judokas Alina Cheru and Alina Zaharia won the gold medal in the Ju No Kata event at the Kata European Judo Championships in Grand Canaria (Spain). Cheru and Zaharia ranked 1st with 401.5 points in the Ju No Kata event, followed by Mathieu Coulon/Carole Heras (France) with 396.5 points and Mariano Arroyo Martin/Garcia Pozo Juan Manuel (Spain) with 394.5 points.

Unknown vandals have damaged the newly-installed ticket turnstiles at ISAP electric railway station in Neo Faliro, south of Athens.

The attack, which comes in the wake of various similar incidents across the capital, took place around 1.10 a.m. on Wednesday. 

The Glyfada Archdiocese released a statement that maintains that martial arts sports based on Eastern philosophy are a spiritual threat to Christians. The message came following the introduction of jiu-jitsu lessons at a number of primary schools of Greece.

A year since the death of screen legend Robin Williams, and his widow Susan Williams is opening up for the first time about how she is dealing with the loss and the last days of the late actor’s life. Asked by Amy Robach from Good Morning America about whether her husband was “spiraling out of control” prior to his death she states her shock on August 11, 2014, when she found his body.

In his election campaign, Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, looked more like Phantasos, the god of fake dreams full of illusions. After he won the elections on Jan. 25 ? and a historic referendum on July 5 ? he looked more like Morpheus, the winged god of dreams who could take human form in dreams. These days he rather looks like Phobetor, the personification of nightmares ?

Lech Walesa, former president of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1983, said in an interview with AGERPRES that sport is a phenomenon of global dimensions and he wishes its rules were applied in other fields as well, such as politics and the social sector.

Romania ended second among the participating countries at the sixth edition of World Union of Karate-do Federations (WUKF), with 99 medals (41 gold, 23 silver, 20 bronze, and 15 for fourth places).