FIGHT CLUB:
I.O.C. scholarship funds let Niger judoist Alassane train with a world-class coach
Abdou Alassane Dji Bo's Olympic debut lasted just 1 min. 33 sec., but he didn't come out feeling like a loser. The 25-year-old judoist, the first from Niger ever to compete at the Games, crashed out in the first round of the 66-kg weight class, in a bout with Slovakia's Jozef Krnac that resembled a very fast two-man game of Twister. "Of course in my heart, it hurt to lose," Alassane says. But the point of this trip for Alassane and for Olympic Solidarity (OS), the scholarship program that has given him more than $20,000 for training and travel over...
