2024-08-04 11:19:44
She gave herself the opportunity to do better than in 2016. In Rio de Janeiro, Sofiane Oumiha won the silver medal in the category under 60 kg. This Sunday, he qualified for the final of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the category under 63.5 kg thanks to his hard-fought victory against Canadian Wyatt Sanford.
The 29-year-old Frenchman dominated most of the first round (5-0), before the fight resumed. Upon arrival, the judges still rewarded the boxing of Oumiha (4-1), also warmly congratulated by a fair-play opponent.
“Control your ups and downs”
The Toulouse player showed his intentions at the end of the quarter-final. “I came to win the gold medal and mark my sport,” he said after securing at least the bronze. He still has a fight left before he can climb to the top of the podium.
“These are fights. I feel good on my legs, the public picked me up. I was in Rio in 2016, I will be here in 2024. Believe in your dream, don’t give up, whatever class you are in, you can give yourself a way to get there,” he said on the radio of France 2, who is satisfied with knowing how to “manage her ups and downs”, who admitted that she went through a “little slump” during the second round.
If they do not appear in the same category, then Oumiha joins Billal Bennama, who qualified for the final in the category under 51 kg a few minutes earlier on the same scale in the Arena Paris-Nord. Before joining Roland-Garros.
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