Judo In Montenegro

the time when the best organizational and sports results were achieved.
They have already been discussed but will be dealt with in particular in
the Results section.
In a survey conducted by the two sports magazines, “Sport” from
Belgrade and “Sports News” from Zagreb, Dragomir Bečanović was
declared the best athlete of SFR of Yugoslavia in 1989. By winning the
first place in the 1989 World Championship, Bečanović achieved the
highest competitive success in Yugoslav judo.
In 1989, due to considerable contributions to the development of
judo, the International Judo Union (IJU) awarded Momčilo Milić, Milić
Ilić and Božidar Markuš 5th Dan Black Belt and Petar Ilić, 6th Dan
Black Belt , while the Yugoslav Minister of Sports prof. Zoran Bingulac,
awarded Božidar Markuš with a Certificate of Merit in recognition
of his contribution to the development of sports in Yugoslavia and
abroad.
The notorious political situation in the former federal republics
and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia could not disrupt the relations
between the judo Unions of Serbia and Montenegro, but tensions still
could be felt. Some of the politicians from Serbia and Montenegro, including
the Yugoslav president, Zoran Lilić, tried to establish different
relations and different management. In the light of such conditions, at
the end of my second presidential term in JUY, the work of the Union,
apart from regular issues, the number of which being in no way small,
carried the burden of a few additional ones as well. In such a situation,
the work itself lost its purpose.
The Federal Government, whose president was Momir Bulatović,
was not recognized by the Montenegrin authorities who used to refer
to it, even in official communication, as “illegitimate”, “so-called” and
the like. What we did not expect was that even we, within the Judo Union
of Yugoslavia, would suffer the consequences of its illegitimate procedures.
The Yugoslav Ministry of Sport and its representative Labud
Janković interfered with the work of the JUY in the rudest way possible.
From his position of the Deputy Minister, he took the right to appoint
a person to make decisions instead of the Union bodies, although this
person had already been suspended by the authorities of Judo Union
of Yugoslavia. Unwilling to accept such relations, on September 28,
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