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Olympic judo champion Teddy Riner to fight for French presidency | AFP

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France's five-time Olympic judo champion Teddy Riner has announced he would run in next year's presidential election, after expressing concern about the "rise of the far right".

Riner, one of the greatest judokas in history, said in a video that he feared France could soon become deeply divided, appearing to cast himself as a candidate for voters unwilling to choose between two political extremes — the far right and the hard left.

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