Tamerlan Bashaev bags gold again

Russian heavyweight Tamerlan Bashaev is in a phase of ascending progression which once again guided him to the heavyweight final, against a judo giant, the Brazilian, Rafael Silva, double Olympic medallist and triple world medalist.

The final was as expected, with Silva trying to use his massive figure to throw Bashaev with a natural but enormous uchi-mata and the small, by comparison, Russian trying to go under the centre of gravity of Silva.

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