Judo

We have ambition to collect as many medals as we can.

This ambition was tainted by the failure of several athletes to compete.

The failure occurred because of lacking of understanding of rules and regulations.

They have admitted such recklessness.

She was disqualified from the competition after she refuse to take off her hijab.

While other martial arts (such as …) allow female athletes to wear a special hijab during competition, judo doesn’t.

He has been aware of the regulation and therefore he lobbied the organizer to let her wear her hijab, but to no avail.

His lobby lead to no avail.

They refused to grant their request, referring to the prevailing rules.

we have tried our best to accommodate her principle, but we have to respect rules.

He hoped in the future the organizer could adjust its rules by letting …

he was tight-lipped when asked further about his effort.

she knows about the rule, but she has insisted on wearing her hijab while fighting.

I want to break that rule and challenge the rule, because

I want to stick to my principle.

she was asked about her future.

I will not stop being an athlete who fight for my country.

I will switch to chess, a game I has excelled at since I was a child.

She decided to commit to the change, because she refused to compete as …without a hijab.

He suggested the federation relax the rules ..

We will assess the incident to prevent something similar from happening in the future.

That was the second incident …in which

An athlete was banned because of wearing a head cover, after the 2012 olyimpic.

The ban should not be viewed as an act of discrimination.

As any type of head cover was prohibited because of safety concerns.

the coach has admitted the mistake.

We forget to register them as we were occupied with that problem.


we promised a thorough evaluation to prevent similar incidents in the future.