2024-08-15 18:53:51
Acosta will try to prevent his friend and mentor from achieving an unprecedented record at the Olympic Games, and in the process, get his first gold medal at the event with the five rings.
The Chilean Yasmani Acosta secured a medal and this Tuesday he will fight for gold in Greco-Roman wrestling Paris 2024 Olympic Games. To do so, the representative of Team Chile will have to defeat a tough rival: Mijain Lopez.
The opponent of the national is considered the best fighter in history. The Cuban Mijaín López, 41 years old, has a long career in the five-ring event. In fact, he is four-time Olympic champion and has won all the gold medals since Beijing 2008 until now.
The above transformed it into the sixth athlete in history to win four consecutive gold medals in the same disciplineNow, in Paris 2024, he will seek to become the first athlete to win five gold medals in a row.
Added to this is five-time world champion and the Pan American Games in Greco-Roman wrestling.
The close relationship between Mijaín López and Yasmani Acosta
Under this context, Yasmani Acosta will face Mijaín López, who is his friend and mentor in the discipline. Both trained together in Havana, Cuba. However, their joint training ended when the naturalized Chilean took advantage of a competition in 2015 to stay and live in our country.
After Lopez achieved his victory in the semifinals of Paris 2024, he closely followed his friend’s performance and said: “It will be a wild and very beautiful final. There will be two Cubans in the final, one for one country and one for another, but we have the same blood.“.
The Cuban added: “This is the culmination of all the training we had together in Cuba and the help I gave him to be able to reach the final. It will be something nice.”
For his part, Yasmani Acosta did not hide his admiration for the greatest exponent of Greco-Roman wrestling and said: “He is the best fighter in the world right now, he is my favorite athlete, the one I admire the most, I’m fighting against an athlete I admire, But on top of the mattress I’m going to give it my all“.
When and where to watch the Greco-Roman wrestling final between Yasmani Acosta and Mijaín López at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
Yasmani Acosta will seek Olympic gold this Tuesday, August 6 at around 10:00 p.m. 13:30 and 14:00 hours approximately, Considering that the final is scheduled for round 12 of a day that begins at 12:15 in Chile).
You can follow the fight in open television on Chilevisión screens. In streaming, The sporting event will be broadcast on the Claro Sports channel on YouTube.
The medal that the fighter obtains will be the 15th in the history of Team Chile and the fourth in a combat sport.