Judo World Champion Inal Tasoev On the air of the show “Above Olympus” on , he admitted that he hated everything related to second place.
Tasoev is 26 years old. He is a world champion (2023), two-time European champion. The athlete was not included in the final list of the Russian national team for the 2020 Games in Tokyo. The Olympics in the capital of Japan took place in the summer of 2021.
— I was sitting in a hotel in Moscow and turned on the TV. I jumped on the bed. It was the opening day of the 2020 Olympics. He put a chair in front of the TV, sat down from the bottom up, looked at the TV and said: “It’s almost over! It’s not so hard after all!” It is hard, actually. You suffer! You fight, it hurts, but it’s all real. You can try again!
When I arrived later in the room [во Владикавказе] and I led the first training session, from that moment on I never left the gym and trained like crazy. And I asked myself the question: “Where do I prepare? Why do I need it? Because there were no tournaments (laughs). The Olympics just ended. And again they called me to the training camp, I went there and started training more.
I hate everything about second place. I even try not to do anything twice. I don’t like second place too much.
I had times in my family when the school principal called my mother and told her that I was skipping classes at school and just going to train. The principal talked about me, as did all the teachers. Mom took me home, didn’t swear, sat me down in front of her and asked me: “Inal, why aren’t you studying?” I replied: “I’m an athlete, I want to train.” She told me: “If you’re an athlete, then I support your choice!”
“Relaxing in a club is not a vacation, just like relaxing at a table in a restaurant. For me, it’s primarily the mountains. This is my favorite vacation: coming to the mountains and spending the night here,” Tasoev said on the air of the program “Above Olympus.” Judo” on channel.
At the end of June, the IOC allowed four Russian judokas to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games in neutral status; in total, Russia had 12 quotas for participation in the Games – 7 men and 5 women. After the IOC list was published, the President of the Russian Judo Federation (RDF) Sergei Soloveichik told that Russian judokas refuse to participate fully in the 2024 Games.
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