2023-05-08 03:40:42
This time, both the French Romane Dicko and Julia Tolofua as well as the Israeli Raz Hershko, the Japanese Akira Sone, the Korean Hayun Kim, the Brazilian Beatriz Souza, the Serbian Milica Zabic, the Turkish Kayra Sayit and the Cuban Idalys Ortiz, will present themselves to the fight for the crown of the planet.
The World Judo Championship has started in Doha, Qatar, and none of the big ones wants to miss the opportunity to win the title next Saturday the 13th.
If any of the favorites were missing from another event, now neither Dicko, nor Sone, nor Hershko, nor Idalys, will renounce a gold that has a special significance, since it transmits a message of authority to the others, especially one year from the Olympic Games.
For the Frenchwoman, queen of the world and the Jerusalem Masters in 2022, and bronzed in the recent Grand Slams in Paris and Antalya, in February and March, it would be the culmination of her career that she was looking for in the Tokyo Olympics… and of which, then, the Candelariense separated her.
Meanwhile, for Sone, Olympic champion in 2020 and three times monarch of the world, without much activity on the mats after those Games, it would be the great comeback, after having achieved everything.
And the young Hershko could not do justice at the 2022 Tashkent World Cup, despite beating the girl from the Godínez neighborhood, since no one had accumulated a greater number of consecutive medals since Tokyo. She now added the gold at the Grand Slams in Tel Aviv and Tbilisi, in February and March. So she will be thirsty for revenge.
At the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena in the Qatari capital, there will be the best of the division of more than 78 kilograms, including the Korean Kim, winner of the Grand Prix of Portugal, in January and the Grand Slam of Paris, in February; also, the Brazilian Souza, subtitle in Tashkent.
But they will all have to take care of the 33-year-old from Artemisa, who has won eight medals in 13 world championships (two gold, two silver and four bronze).
Despite the time without competing for a dislocated right elbow and his physical condition still to be validated, his experience and proven talent are worth a world.
This is probably one of your most difficult challenges. “It could be my last World Cup, and I don’t want to return empty-handed,” the four-time Olympic medalist and London 2012 champion told colleague Joel Garcia.
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