June 21 2008
The tournament for people with an intellectual disability, competing on elite level, took place in Bordeaux and was an success for the organization.
The competition had gathered 26 male and 3 female from Italia and France. The athletes showed good sportsmanship both on and off the tatami and we had the possibility to see many nice ippons.
According to the adjustments that has been made to the IJF regulations, only kanstesu-waza was prohibited. It is to the credits of the organization that shime-waza was stopped in the matches with the inexperienced Italians judokas. There was only one referee at each tatami and that may be not many for a competition at this level. But the referees did a good job and were consequent in there judgment. Later on Mr.Smedly, director INAS-FID Europe declared to have enjoined the competition, aldo he was not familiar with judo.
He admired the skills and the determinations to win from the athletes, yes this was all INAS-FID stands for.
BvdE
