Judo IJF World Championships 2025

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2 hours ago, copravolley said:

The men's team is very weak, apart from one surprise. Even if we reach the final block, we almost always lose and take 5th place (this is a negative trend present since Paris 2024). There are too few new strong people coming in. It`s similar among the women, because the only young one - Scutto - appeared in the previous cycle. Compared to the depth of the squad of Germany, for example, we are very weak not to mention France or Georgia. This is very worrying for the future, because something seems to have blocked in our training.

oh, c'mon!

we've won a few junior and cadet medals in the past few years also among the men

it's only a question of bad coaching (or waste of talent, see Parlati), the talent is there, even more than among the women, who also won a lot of junior medals (even gold)

it's not their fault if the technical committee takes awful decisions in terms of programming (for instance, why Simonetti and not Ghiglione here? why Carnà has been fluctuating between 52 and 57kg for 3 years after winning a silver medal in a grand slam tournament when she was 17 instead of putting her in the best class according to her growth? why Russo hasn't performed even close to last year? why Tavano is going backwords instead of progressing?)

our only real problem is the lack of competitive guys in the men's super-heavyweights (and Tavano not improving enough among the women)

we are not and will never be a Nation like  or , we just don't have the same amount of people practicing the sport nor the "tradition" of those Countries

 

p.s. don't mention Germany...they're not even close to us, they just have 4 very good girls in 2 weight classes and a couple of outsiders, always only among the women

 

p.p.s. Today's Team Event doesn't count anything (like all the team competitions except for the Olympic one)