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Japanese judoka Hifumi Abe grabbed a second straight Olympic gold medal on the Paris Games on Sunday.
At the Olympics within the French capital, Abe received the boys’s 66-kilogram occasion, defending the title he received within the earlier Summer Olympics in Tokyo three years in the past.
Earlier within the day, Uta Abe, youthful sister of Hifumi and champion within the ladies’s 52-kg judo competitors on the Tokyo Olympics, was eradicated within the spherical of 16 in the identical class. The second-round defeat left her with no medal in Paris.
The Abe siblings each received gold at their dwelling Olympics in Tokyo in 2021 simply half-hour aside.
The 24-year-old Uta, who had not misplaced a struggle in a person competitors since 2019, was overwhelmed by Uzbekistan’s Diyora Keldiyorova, twice world silver medallist.
After world No. 1 Keldiyorova had received by ippon, Abe sank to her knees holding her head in her arms as she tried to come back to phrases with what had occurred.
Having saluted her opponent, she struggled to stroll and fell to her knees once more earlier than sobbing within the arms of her coach.
The four-time world champion, who had solely competed in a single competitors this yr, had began her day with a simple win over Canadian Kelly Deguchi.
The favourite’s defeat opened the door for underdogs like France’s Amandine Buchard, who certified for the semifinals.
The Tokyo silver medallist was to face Keldiyorova, whereas Distria Krasniqi, the world No. 2 from Kosovo, was to face Italy’s world champion Odette Giuffrida within the different semi.
Uta Abe of Japan reacts after shedding the Olympic judo ladies’s under-52 kg spherical of 16 bout on the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on Sunday.
| AFP-JIJI
