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Join the fight to unite! created, organized, and facilitated the first Universal participate in this celebration of humanity, forever Harmony Day, which took place in New York City and transforming a day of human tragedy into a day of human It’s The Event We’ve All Been Training For. involved such high-profile participants as the late ABC grace—a positive worldwide experience reminding us news icon Bill Beutel, hockey great Luc Robitaille, radio of generosity, gratitude, and a fundamental human Please send all messages and inquiries to host Elliot Segal, and legendary artist Peter Max. Aiming connection. [email protected]. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Reach over 22,000 Martial Arts Schools! Become a Claw Marks Advertiser! Call 1-800-821-5090 SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS! TIGERCLAW’S IBSA World Judo Championships Porter Finishes 5th, Jones 7th (Brommat, France) - Myles Porter (Toledo, Ohio) turned heads at his The tournament concluded with the team competition on Sunday. Team USA made international competition debut by finishing 5th in the 100kg division at it to the semi-finals by beating Greece in the first round and Venezuela in the second the International Blind Sports Association World Judo Championships round. Next in the semi-finals Team USA faced a strong hometown team in France. The U.S. lost 3 of the 5 matches which sent them to the bronze medal match vs. the in Brommat, France. Porter cruised through his first two matches Ukraine. There the Ukrainians bested the Americans 3 matches to 5 which placed the winning by pin in 1:34 against Markus Uppmann of Germany and then U.S. in 5th place. beating Arif Aslanov of Azerbaijan by forcing Aslanov to submit from About USABA: The mission of the United States Association of Blind Athletes is to an arm bar in 1:25. increase the number and quality of grassroots-through-competitive, world-class In the semi-finals Porter faced his toughest competitor yet, Antonio Silva of Brazil, the athletic opportunities for Americans who are blind or visually impaired. For more 2004 Athens Paralympic Gold medalist. Silva threw Porter with a Harai Goshi for ippon information, visit our website www.usaba.org. (instant win) which put the American into the bronze medal match against William Morgan of Canada. There, Porter fell behind early and Morgan threw Porter for ippon placing him fifth overall. Scott Jones (Little Rock, Ark.) also had a solid tournament by placing 7th overall in the 81kg division. Jones first defeated Diego Poli from Italy by two wazari (large points) to one koka (small point). Next Jones faced Claud Fernandez of Argentina who he pinned with 1:50 remaining in the 5:00 match. Jones then lost his third match to Cyril Jonard of France by ippon which sent him into the repacharge (losers bracket) where he beat Tae In Jang of Korea with a beautiful throw of o uchi gari for ippon, an instant win just 10 seconds into the contest. In Jones’ fifth match, he faced Karim Sardarov of Azerbaijan who beat him by ippon placing him 7th. The 5th and 7th place finishes by Porter and Jones qualified one spot each in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games in their respective weight categories for the United States. 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