HANGZHOU Leah Jhane Lopez and Shugen Nakano crashed out from the preliminaries for a flat start in judo at the 19th Asian Games on Sunday at the Xiaoshan Linpu Gymnasium. Lopez, 23, lost second seed Abiba Abuzhakynova of Kazakhstan via Waza-ari in the round of 16 of the women’s -48 kilograms category while Nakano yielded to
HANGZHOU Kiyomi Watanabe and her judo teammates are in for a tough battle in the 19th Asian Games here. Philippine Judo Federation secretary general Dave Carter admitted that other countries have improved significantly, making it harder for them to win a first gold medal in the quadrennial meet. Leah Jane Lopez will open the campaign of