French judoka Teddy Riner suffers shock defeat in hunt for third straight Olympic gold • FRANCE 24

This was the fourth Olympic Games for 32-year-old star Teddy Reiner. Was it a matter of his age why he lost or was he just outmatched? It's a combination of a multitude of factors, I think the most important is that he didn't get in. these Olympic Games with all the preparation he would have wanted, only the tournament in Doha in January, where by the way he beat his Russian opponent, with whom he lost in the quarterfinals, so a combination of all the factors was more orderly, who of course was trying. become the second judge in history to win three Olympic goals after a Japanese athlete did so in 1996, 2000 and 1992, but of course it is a great disappointment for the French delegation, Tediorina, who was the flag bearer of France in Rio in 2016. one of the athletes the French were banking on to win

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here at Tokyo 2020. he beat Austrian Stephan Aggie quite comfortably in the first round in his first attack and pawn victory there before beating the Israeli sasso in a rematch of the semi-finals. finals in Rio five years ago, Tadichiner, who is 32, was getting a little older, but his ambition and motivation did not change, his coach and the president of the judo federation who we spoke to yesterday at the Olympic show, did very well.

Of course Teddy Gina was at the top of her game and was trying to do everything she could to get into the French history halls of Judah and indeed the world halls of Judah, so this is a bitter disappointment, Of course, it's not finished yet. Well, he will be able to go through the repercussion rounds to try to win a bronze that does not correspond to him in all aspects, but if the Russian loses in the semifinals, then he will not even have the opportunity to win a bronze medal, so it is not something tedious, but It is certainly a blow to French hopes, here in Tokyo, yes, and the French team is also a little disappointed with the performance of the men's national fencing team.

It has not been an easy morning for the French delegation in Tokyo, the French men's fencing team, the IP team event, as you mentioned,

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ed in the quarterfinals by Japan, it is the first time since 1996 that France has not even been on the podium. of the ip men's team event the three-time defending champions, the discipline was not maintained at the london 2012

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s, but in beijing, rio and also in athens,

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was crowned

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champions, so that's another disappointing result, Kano

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s his opponent, Borrell, making two. In the last instance, it is time to give Japan a 45-44 victory by the narrowest of margins.

Another disappointment is that, with three candidates in the final of the men's BMX event, none could win. He won a medal for France. disappointing, then very quickly track and field finally started with the women's 100m heats with asha price and dean asher smith in great form ahead of those initial heats. Okay, thank you very much, Simon Simon Harding, reporting from Tokyo and us. We will contact him later.