Judo at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[NearPup 3,496]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Sulamanidze throwing away his gold with a super dumb (and rightful) penalty  

Yup.  gifted the gold to  there.

 

I am happy the referee didn’t let him get away with those two blatant penalties just because he was ahead with a few seconds left.

[kungshamra71 948]

Giant Patricia!!! Portugal caralhoooooo     

[Gianlu33 5,276]

Another gold 

[hckošice 15,519]

Men's -100kg
Final Results

 

Zelym KOTSOIEV

 

Ilia SULAMANIDZE

 

Peter PALTCHIK

Muzaffarbek TUROBOYEV

 

 

Gold Medal Match

 

Zelym Kotsoiev  Ippon  Ilia Sulamanidze

 

Bronze Medal Match

 

Peter Paltchik  Waza-Ari Daniel Eich

Muzaffarbek Turoboyev  Ippon Nikoloz Sherazadishvili

 

Full Brackets HERE

[hckošice 15,519]

Women's -78kg
Final Results

 

Alice BELLANDI

 

Inbar LANIR

 

MA Zhenzhao

Patricia SAMPAIO

 

 

Gold Medal Match

 

Alice Bellandi  Ippon  Inbar Lanir

 

Bronze Medal Match

 

Ma Zhenzhao  Waza-Ari Anna Maria Wagner

Patricia Sampaio  Ippon Rika Takayama

 

Full Brackets HERE

[AmericanHero40 241]

WOWWWWW.  YESSSSSS!!!!!!

!!!!!! 2 medals!!!!!!!

 

אל אל ישראל!!!

[Makedonas 2,239]

On 7/31/2024 at 12:15 PM, George_D said:

Tselidis  wins bronze medal!!!  Our first medal in the Games !!!

We definitely expected a medal in judo yesterday but from Teltsidou, not Tselidis! I'll take it though! What a nice surprise for once.

 

I know he won a couple of European Championships medals in the past but this is probably the first surprise Greek Olympic medal since 2004 (unless you consider Korakaki in 2016 a surprise)! Usually our Olympic surprises are painful losses, they are very rarely unexpected medal!

 

Also our first judo medal since London 2012 

[Makedonas 2,239]

On 7/31/2024 at 6:29 AM, Makedonas said:

I can't believe it 

 

And she had like 15-20 family members come, her immediate family and all of her cousins, aunts, uncles...

 

Based on her family, their jobs, and where they are from/live she probably grew up poor so I'm sure this was a big deal for the whole family to go to Paris just to be disappointed...

And when she was "pinned down" (sorry I don't know the proper judo term) at the end for 10-15 seconds, you could hear the desperation and heartbreak in her family members' voices screaming "Pame Liza! Pame Liiizzaaaa!" because they probably knew it was basically over and they were doing anything they could to try and inspire her to pull off a miracle 

[kungshamra71 948]

For you to realise how much "football-dependent" is Portugal. It's so sad but so hard to change unfortunately....

 

 

 

 

[kungshamra71 948]

Oh and if you think "yeah but it's just a bronze medal...", remember that Portugal gets very few medals per games so any medal should (and is, by those who appreciate it) be celebrated as an historical moment.

 

A curious fact about this one: the medal won by Patricia Sampaio  resulted in Portugal to finally have more medals (29), in our entire history, than Michael Phelps (28 in total)