World judo champion Inal Tasoev on , he admitted he had no time to get upset after the final bout of this year’s world championship in Doha, where he initially finished second because he was confident in his victory.
The World Championships took place in Doha in May. In June, the International Judo Federation (IJF) reviewed the results of the final match of the World Championship in the weight category over 100 kg, in which Tasoev lost to three-time French Olympic champion Teddy Riner. In added time, the Russian put his opponent on his back, but the attack was not evaluated. The IJF admitted the error, stating that “points could have been awarded for Tasoev’s counterattack”, and ultimately awarded gold to Tasoev and Riner in that fight.
— It was the eighth minute of the fight. There was nothing in my head at all. A kind of fog! There were thoughts: “Let’s relax! Give it up! I feel like I’m standing, he tries a throw and can’t throw me. And then something clicks in my head: “You can’t leave me!” Then I will leave you! And I do this counter-punch. I arrived, and in the group they wrote in the messenger that Inal Tasoev is the people’s champion! I kind of had a feeling that I was going to win this competition. This feeling has never left me. Even when I came second, I did not have time to get upset, because it seemed to me that all this was not for nothing, because I had won. “I knew I won,” Tasoev said in a special report by Evgeny Mospanov “Friends on the Tatami” on .
Source : MatchTV
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