LDOG 2,199 Posted October 6, 2022 #11 Share Posted October 6, 2022 11 minutes ago, phelps said: I don't think so... Tsunoda is a great player, Scutto is the future...and a couple of big names (Tonaki included) had a bad day, which made the bottom half of the draw look "easy" for people who normally don't make the podium in the global events. But the overall level wasn't cheap at all. p.s. the fact that some medals weren't easily predictable is only a plus for the sport, it shows that also the stars of the game can lose against mid-ranking players if they are not at 100% (or don't take them too seriously). There are always two strong japanese in 48kg and I don't doubt your opinion about the italian but compare that to the depth of the previous olympic cycle.... I mean, Menz taking a silver? The chilean making it to a medal match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMQ 222 Posted October 7, 2022 #12 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Time for Paula to make a comeback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted October 7, 2022 #13 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Day #2 Today's medal matches are: Women's -52kg Bronze Medal match #1: Gefen Primo vs Distria Krasniqi Bronze Medal match #2: Khorloodoi Bishrelt vs Amandine Bouchard Gold Medal match: Uta Abe vs Chelsie Giles Men's -66kg Bronze Medal match #1: Elios Manzi vs An Baul Bronze Medal match #2: Vazha Margvelashvili vs Denis Vieru Gold Medal match: Hifumi Abe vs Joshiro Maruyama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted October 7, 2022 #14 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Day #2 Women's -52kg Gold: Uta Abe Silver: Chelsie Giles Bronze: Distria Krasniqi & Amandine Buchard Men's -66kg Gold: Hifumi Abe Silver: Joshiro Maruyama Bronze: An Baul & Denis Vieru Quasit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted October 7, 2022 #15 Share Posted October 7, 2022 no real surprise today among the medallists... and also the expected super-fight between Hifumi Abe and Maruyama was somehow disappointing, with Abe always in control and his rival never showing any true chance of upsetting the Olympic Champion. if it wasn't for the beautiful counter that decided the fight, I'd call the match "modest" (especially compared to the previous matches between those 2). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted October 7, 2022 #16 Share Posted October 7, 2022 22 hours ago, LDOG said: There are always two strong japanese in 48kg and I don't doubt your opinion about the italian but compare that to the depth of the previous olympic cycle.... I mean, Menz taking a silver? The chilean making it to a medal match? Menz (and Vargas Ley) this time were just lucky to take advantage of an unbalanced draw and of Tonaki's bad day (and not only hers). But this doesn't mean that this specific weight class is so different from the recent past. I mean, outside Japan, there have always been 3/4 competitors above the average (in the last few years they were Pareto, Krasniqi, Galbadrakh and Bilodid...now they are Boukli, Scutto, the new Kazakh representative and partially Nikolic, Costa and Figueroa) plus a bunch of 2nd tier girls that on a given day could win a not so predictable medal...and now it's more or less the same, most likely we even have more depth at the just-below-the-top level than before, we only lack a bright talent like Bilodid as the main opponent of the Japanese domination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted October 8, 2022 #17 Share Posted October 8, 2022 Day #3 Today's medal matches are: Women's -57kg Bronze Medal match #1: Jessica Klimkait vs Timna Nelson-Levy Bronze Medal match #2: Enkhriilen Lkhagvatogoo vs Mimi Huh Gold Medal match: Haruka Funakubo vs Rafaela Silva Men's -73kg Bronze Medal match #1: Manuel Lombardo vs Daniel Cargnin Bronze Medal match #2: Hidayat Heydarov vs Tohar Butbul Gold Medal match: Sichi Hashimoto vs Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seb851 31 Posted October 8, 2022 #18 Share Posted October 8, 2022 Very inconstient Shido Call since Day 1 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted October 8, 2022 #19 Share Posted October 8, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, seb851 said: Very inconstient Shido Call since Day 1 ... I'd say biased if not truly "political" calls (and not only of "shido")... in particular, Mrs. Babiuc isn't absolutely making a single call fair to the athletes from certain Nations (what she did to Giuffrida against Krasniqi yesterday was just not acceptable at any level...she shouldn't be an international ref anymore*). *ps let's make it clear...Krasniqi is stronger and most likely she would win in any case, but at least we deserved to watch a good match between 2 Olympic medallists...and that lady made it impossible. Edited October 8, 2022 by phelps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted October 8, 2022 #20 Share Posted October 8, 2022 Day #3 Women's -57kg Gold: Rafaela Silva Silver: Haruka Funakubo Bronze: Jessica Klimkait & Enkhriilen Lkhagvatogoo Men's -73kg Gold: Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir Silver: Soichi Hashimoto Bronze: Daniel Cargnin & Hidayat Heydarov hoversaBR and Monzanator 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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