Vladimir Putin was expelled from the International Federation of Judo, of which he was honorary president (a position that had already been revoked from him last February 27). The same fate befell the Russian oligarch Arkady Rotenberg. The reason is obviously the unjustified aggression of Ukraine.
The Russian president, who was appointed honorary president and ambassador in 2008 and in his role had participated in two world championships (Chelyabinsk in 2014 and Budapest in 2017) and the London Olympic tournament in 2012, has always been a passionate and practitioner of judo. . He has also dedicated a book to the discipline, the Italian version of which is entitled: Learn judo with Putin: history, technique, preparation ”.
In 2019 in a public training session he had held sessions with the best Russian champions of the discipline: unlike his accommodating colleagues with the president, Natalia Kuzyutina, bronze medalist at the 2016 Olympics, had not spared herself and had knocked out Putin: he had sketched, he got up and, complimenting him, smacked a judoka kiss on the forehead. The images of the president flying to the ground were, however, cut off from Russian TV.
