EMOTIONS on the tatami – Teddy Riner’s gang, incredible in the final to defeat Japan (from 1-3 to 4-3), became Olympic mixed team champions, this Saturday during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
At the Arena Champ-de-Mars,
How do you say “final bouquet” in Japanese? Honestly, this roulette with the different weight categories scrolling across the giant screen in the room is one of the most entertaining inventions in the history of sport. Led 1-3 by Japan, this Saturday in the final of the mixed team event which concludes the I of Paris 2024 for discipline, theFrench judo team was first saved by the heroic revelation of these Games, Joan Benjamin GabaBy scoring an anthology ippon after almost five minutes of “golden score” against the double Olympic champion Hifumi Abe, he turned this collective meeting into the unreal.
And he tells it with his fascinating personality, for a judoka ranked 35th in the world that no one imagined would be part of the Olympic adventure a few months ago. “I was told that Abe hadn’t fallen for five years and that annoyed me,” he confides. “I have the ability to beat anyone. And then he’s not even in my “category”. Out of respect for the -73 kg, of which I am Olympic vice-champion, he couldn’t beat me, he’s a -66.” A self-confidence that initiated the comeback of a French team then on the verge of(…) Read more on 20minutes
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