Brazilian Judo is a Sport that has Olympic tradition. Nevertheless, the talent blooming timing is not known. This is not a Judo problem only, since it`s a popular costume to look for talent even in very young athletes. The aim of this study was to analyze talent blooming in Olympic Judo Brazilian athletes. Six athletes from the Olympic team that went to Athens, 2004 were studied. Research was qualitative and the instrument used was a open question interview that was designed to investigate the initiation process in Judo. Results were analyzed using the "Collective subject speech". Speeches analyzed showed that most of the athletes analyzed (83.3%) weren´t young talents, reinforcing the idea that there is no warranty of a good performance in the future, because the athlete performs well when he´s young. In other words, selecting athletes precociously is a risk to the talent development process.
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