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1:33 PM, Jul 1, 2008 • By JAIME SNEIDER

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Page Six reports that Taki recently traveled to Brussels to defend his World Judo Championship title:

Taki Theodoracopulos, the elitist co-founder of The American Conservative, won the US National Judo Championship last year in Miami in the 90-kilo weight class and 70-75 age group. So last week, the aristocratic former playboy went to Brussels to compete in the World Judo Championships, a five-day event featuring 1,600 contestants from 29 countries. After winning nine three-minute matches, but losing two fingernails and suffering a black eye, Taki took the title. "Now I quit. I'll never do it again," he told Page Six. "I'm very banged up." Nothing a little R&R on his yacht in St. Tropez won't cure.

I do take issue with the characterization of Taki as a "former playboy." I'm sure Taki is every bit the playboy of his youth.