Paris 2024 - Very Early Predictions - Poll #6 - Judo - Women's -48kg; Judo - Men's -60kg; Fencing - Women's Epee Individual; Fencing - Men's Sabre Individual; Skateboarding - Men's Street

[Jinzha 702]

I voted 'other athlete' in the -48 kg poll, for the home favorite Boukli. I have a feeling the French will win a lot of judo medals at home.

[rafalgorka 1,509]

17 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

This day 1 schedule is not good for France. It won't be easy for them to get a gold on Day 1.

 

In Tokyo there was Men's 400m Ind Medley on Day 1...

Correction:

 

obviously M 400m IM was on day 2 in Tokyo as well, it was the 1st swimming finals session but it was on day 2 in the morning because of NBC.

 

 

anyway, you are right. Boukli is definitely a contender in W -48kg

and there should be many medals in judo for FRA

 

but I think they will have bigger chances in next days in this sport though...

 

 

[rafalgorka 1,509]

Judo W -48kg, as it stands now:

 

1. Natsumi Tsunoda / Funa Tonaki JPN - only one athlete from any NOC can participate. @phelps what you think? who will get a spot in Team JPN here?

2. Shirine Boukli FRA - as "any other" option, 2 votes in the comments

3. Abiba Abuzhakynova KAZ & Julia Figueroa ESP

 

this one turned out to be very interesting imo

Edited December 26, 2022 by rafalgorka

[phelps 7,664]

2 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

Judo W -48kg, as it stands now:

 

1. Natsumi Tsunoda / Funa Tonaki JPN - only one athlete from any NOC can participate. @phelps what you think? who will get a spot in Team JPN here?

2. Shirine Boukli FRA - as "any other" option, 2 votes in the comments

3. Abiba Abuzhakynova KAZ & Julia Figueroa ESP

 

this one turned out to be very interesting imo

1.too early to call it right now.

at the moment, Tonaki is still the JPN no.1, but look for Wakana Koga, in 12 months time she could overtake both Tonaki and Tsunoda in their National ranking.

it won't be an easy choice for them.

 

2.she's definitely a medal contender, even if I think she's not going to win Gold.

there are at least 2 Japanese girls (atm, Tonaki and Tsunoda, but the 3rd -Koga- is coming) and Scutto, who are already better than her.

 

3.the KAZ girl is a good judo player, but she would need a favourable draw to make the medal matches.

Figueroa is a slightly better than average, experienced player. she's dangerous in any given match, but no way she can overtake many of the top 4/5 girls of this weight class in a whole tournament (still, an easy draw could help her to make the final block).

[rafalgorka 1,509]

@phelps

[phelps 7,664]

11 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

@phelps

[rafalgorka 1,509]

1 minute ago, phelps said:

No vote for Scutto here???

[phelps 7,664]

1 minute ago, rafalgorka said:

No vote for Scutto here???

I didn't vote at all...

 

it's too early to make a proper prediction, therefore I'm not going to vote in this series of polls, I'm just giving an opinion if and when asked for...

[rafalgorka 1,509]

7 minutes ago, phelps said:

I didn't vote at all...

 

it's too early to make a proper prediction, therefore I'm not going to vote in this series of polls, I'm just giving an opinion if and when asked for...

Yes, i understand you.

i am beginning to feel that this series of polls is not a good idea. It is too early indeed.

 

but on the other hand it is very useful for me because other users can remind me about contenders I forgot like Galossi or Backstedt… or Boukli…

Edited January 1, 2023 by rafalgorka

[rafalgorka 1,509]

And +10 people vote in every poll here so i think it is not totally useless… we will see, i know i won’t be able to spend much time here this year so time will tell