2024-08-02 15:53:38
2022 world champion Romane Dicko only wants one thing, Olympic gold. He stayed in the semi-finals of the Paris Games against all expectations, but he was able to recover to win bronze, as in Tokyo in 2021.
The 24-year-old Frenchwoman, already in bronze in Tokyo three years ago but already ranked first in the world in her category, won by ippon after only 43 seconds of the fight against Serbian Milica Zabic.
The 24-year-old French woman, however, is one of the best chances of an Olympic title in French judo: since her defeat at the Worlds in June 2023, she has not lost a fight, and dominates the weight category weight, in which he has become the first in the world.
The dream was broken in the semi-finals, against the future Olympic champion, Brazilian Beatriz Souza, against whom she had not won in four fights. The two fighters went into overtime, and the Brazilian scored a flawless ippon on Dicko, despite having been carried from the start of the day by the Arena Champ-de-Mars in chaos.
French President Emmanuel Macron went straight to the tatami to comfort the distraught French athlete.
After his big disappointment, world No. Just to remind us that this Friday you have a ways to go.
“You only experience the Home Games once…”
“It’s definitely not the color I want to bring back… I’m disappointed,” Dicko responded after his victory. You only experience the Home Games once, I really want to bring home the gold. “
After his disappointment at the 2023 Worlds, where he was eliminated from the start, Dicko returned to the circuit like a bullet, indifferent until Friday and European champion for the third and fourth time in 2022 and 2023.
During his first fight on Friday in Paris, Dicko easily beat the Georgian Sophio Somkhishvili, having no right after three penalties in 1 52 minutes. In the quarter, he rushed to the Bosnian Larisa Ceric, knocked out in minutes 34 seconds. Dicko will have another chance to win gold on Saturday in the mixed team competition, alongside Teddy Riner.
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