I don’t know the offical reasoning, but I think it is to make fights more active and this will limit golden scores a lot. They probably didn’t want people fighting in long golden scores with limited attacks and they are playing on shidos. A 5 second hold down can cause a win!
More rules can be found here: https://www.ijf.org/news/show/judopresents-the-new-rules
There will be a review after 2025 worldchampionships.
The last time that the Yuko was used was 2017.
The Koka score (belows Yuko) was last used 2008
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