“A big dispute” – With his two gold medals around his neck, Teddy Riner returned to an old dispute he had with Guram Tushishvili, the Georgian he took out in the quarterfinals, at the end of a tense very fight.
He was feared and reigned supreme in the judo world for so long that he outplayed opponents, sometimes enemies. Asked this Saturday night about the TV set of “Quelles Jeux”, Teddy Riner returned to the sad scene at the end of his quarter-final, pitted against him Géorgien Guram Tushishviliwhere his opponent in the round, defeated by two shoulders on the ground, came to challenge the French champion, lost his anger a little.
“Actually, it’s simple, we’re in JO. A lot is at stake, everyone wants to win this gold medal. For the anecdote, he and I, we had a big dispute: In the Champions League, with PSG (his judo club) we met his team (this is in 2022), and he did two things that are the most regrettable of judo,” Teddy Riner recalled.
Before the most successful individual judoka in the world (tied with Tadahiro Nomura) details: “He attacked me from behind after his partner – he swept me. This is usually Hansoku-himo, it’s disqualification, and before that he did a technique on me where he could cross my knee and they gave me the victory. Afterwards, the commission (…) Read more in 20 minutes
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