Judoka bronze medalist at the Paris Olympics Theodoros Tselidis In an interview with , he said that Inal Tasoev would continue his career, despite his exclusion from the 2024 Games.
The International Olympic Committee allowed four Russian judokas to participate in the Paris Games in neutral status. The 2023 world champion Tasoev was not among them. In total, the Russian team had 12 quotas for participation in the Games – 7 for men and 5 for women. Later, the president of the Russian Judo Federation Sergei Soloveichik told that Russian judokas would not participate in the 2024 Games.
— Have you discussed the continuation of his career with Inal?
“Inal will continue to fight, he loves judo, nothing will break him. We talked with him that if he wins the World Championship again, he will prove to everyone that he was wronged in vain and was not allowed to participate in the Olympics,” Tselidis told .
Tselidis, representing the Greek national team, became a bronze medalist at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The North Ossetian native defeated Tristan Mosakhlishvili (Spain) in the fight for bronze in the weight category up to 90 kg. Tselidis is the silver medalist of the 2017 Russian Championship. In 2018, the North Ossetian native Fedor Tselidi decided to play for the Greek national team under the name Theodoros Tselidis.
The Olympic Games in the French capital will end on August 11.
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