[Putin is manly] Judo

Current Prime Minister, and eternal manly man, Vladimir Putin has generously offered to join his country's judo squad. On the Moscow Times front page you can see a picture of him signing the judo manual he wrote with his trainer. (I tried to find a copy of this in Vlad, but none of the bookstores had it.)

Interesting tangent: the gym instructor at the institute where I studied had a four-foot portrait of Putin in his judogi and black belt hanging from his office wall.

Update: video available here.