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World Championships Juniors Olbia. Grand Slam Paris. European Open Malaga. European U23 Championships Budapest. German Championships U21 Frankfurt Oder. World Military Championships Paris. International Masters Bremen U International Alkmaar Tournament U Dutch Championships U15 Leek. Share your results with your judo network. We stay together, we work together, we do everything together, this is a judo family, you know. Judo is a really different sport. In judo it is not just you, you are a team.
A coach is not just there to help with training, a coach is there to help with mentality, you can change an athlete with just one word. I need my team always, I tell them to trust me and everything will be good. When you work in an office and you trust your boss, work goes well. It is the same in judo, you must trust. It is a challenging one and I like a challenge. It's different. The first match was against an Australian Morgan Endicott-Davies. When my name was called and I had to go on the mat, while I was stepping up the tatami, my legs were like kg each.
They were so stiff. But I said, 'let's do it'. After this first fight, I felt really good and free. I was on the way to win. I won this second round and then met the Korean, Kwon Young Woo. That was a really tough match. He was way more experienced than me and we had one Waza-Are each, but I was also tactical and could go to the semi-final, after he was penalized a last time.
In the semi-final, I was against Dmitri Nossov of Russia. I scored a waza-ari with a shoulder movement, and during the throw, Nossov got injured. I caught him on the floor, with an immobilization.
While he was under and in pain, he told me to release the pressure, but there was no way I would do that. It was my ticket to enter the final of the Olympic Games.
After every round, I felt that I was gaining new energy, new power and getting on the mat was my way to release that energy. My last opponent of the day was the Ukrainian, Roman Hontyuk. I was really confident. I was not here just to participate, but to win. I scored yuko, Waza-ari and Ippon. There was too much adrenaline and for several days, I couldn't fall asleep.
It was absolutely amazing. I became immediately more and more famous. I was so tired but so happy at the same time. For me, that was a double stress, because every one was fighting against me, hoping to defeat the reigning champion. He moved to Greece to go all-in on judo together with his mentor Nikos Iliadis. His achievements are impressive, with one Olympic gold and three World Championship gold medals. His Olympic gold medal was won in Athens in when he was only 17 years old, making him the youngest Olympic winner in judo ever.
The win changed his life completely, but it has not been a path strewn with roses since then!
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