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Grand Slam gold for Funa Tonaki: an analysis
But as Neil Adams regularly says, the Japanese are experts at disentangling their legs and it’s not often that they don’t free their legs. Again, this is rather unusual as the drop tai-otoshi is typically associated with Korean and European players. In her final against Dolgova , she used a sticky-foot kosoto, which was initially […]
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 […]