Judo at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[MagyarBabu 153]

Allez La France  !
I'm not a big fan of Mixed Events, but this and the triathlon one really enjoyed me.

 

[Styrka 206]

Well, congrats to the team !

[dcro 10,210]

History repeats itself. Anton Geesink moment of 2021.

[NearPup 3,041]

Lol apparently there are *11* Olympic gold medallists from this event. So more French judokas are going to have Olympic gold medals from Tokyo than Japanese ones.

[intoronto 5,630]

Thankfully Israel won a medal too. Their judo team has to have the least luck at these games

[OlympicsFan 858]

Completely stupid event. Mixed relays make some sense, but mixed events where the individual performances are just added up and don't really have anything to do with each other are completely pointless. Why not make a mixed football event: Final ranking in men's tournament + final ranking in women's tournament and the nation with the highest average finish gets a gold medal ...

[Laraja 1,494]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

That seems a little unfair. I've seen several other Brazilians and they were definitely fighting for it. It can be a lack of quality, mistakes being made, bad luck, bad shape or a combination of all that, but that's all something different than not fighting for it and I really doubt they were actually thinking "Ah I'll try but never mind"...

 

Although I do see the same here in the Netherlands, with people saying they barely tried. That's just unfair, even if the performance was far below par, probably nobody is more disappointed than themselves in reality. Because you can bet that they all tried.

You may be right (I cant believe that I said it )

 

Saying that they didn't fight for it, may sound unfair...

 

However, this is a sport that I love. I practice when I was a child, and one of the best days for me in Rio, was when I watched one finals day (Majlinda  ). So, it hurts a lot in me seeing a poorly performance from our team there...

 

We had a lot of judokas losing in the very benning of their fights, and a few losing by shidos, SHIDOS! This is unaceptable for me. As @vinipereirasaid. I'm glad we won't see most of these names in the next cycle.

[hckošice 14,807]

Mixed Teams
Final Results

 

  France  

Amandine Buchard

Sarah Leonie Cysique

Clarisse Agbegnenou

Margaux Pinot

Romane Dicko

Madeleine Malonga

Guillaume Chaine

Kilian le Blouch

Axel Clerget

Alexandre Iddir

Teddy Riner

 

  Japan      

Uta Abe

Tsukasa Yoshida

Chizuru Arai

Miku Tashiro

Shori Hamada

Akira Sone

Hifumi Abe

Shohei Ono

Shoichiro Mukai

Takanori Nagase

Hisayoshi Harasawa

Aaron Wolf

 

  Germany        

Katharina Menz

Theresa Stoll

Giovanna Scoccimarro

Martyna Trajdos

Jasmin Grabowski

Anna-Maria Wagner

Sebastian Seidl

Igor Wandtke

Dominic Ressel

Eduard Trippel

Johannes Frey

Karl-Richard Frey

  Israel       

Timna Nelson-Levy

Shira Rishony

Gili Sharir

Raz Hershko

Inbar Lanir

Tohar Butbul

Baruch Shmailov

Li Kochman

Sagi Muki

Peter Paltchik

Or Sasson

 

 

Gold Medal Match

 

  France   4 - 1  Japan 

 

Bronze Medal Matches

 

  Germany  4 - 2  Netherlands 

  Israel  4 - 1  ROC 

 

Full Brackets Here

[OlympicsFan 858]

Does anyone know why Russia did so badly here? Is this representative of their current level or did they have bad luck?

[Dnl 691]

11 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Does anyone know why Russia did so badly here? Is this representative of their current level or did they have bad luck?

From what I’ve understand, it was the pressure of preforming and getting results no matter what happens, “in regular Olympic Games “ Russia well.. is Russia and they got more athletes, so the pressure is divided between more people