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Much more than sports: the stories behind the medal candidates

He is far from a favorite, but even in Rio expectations were not high and it ended in a medal.

With a wide heart and a lot of willpower, Uri Sasson wants to reach the podium in Tokyo as well, with his degree of success at the Olympics also serving as a crossroads for the rest of his career.

The stories behind the medal candidates, a special project

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Yaniv Tuchman

Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

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Our project actually opened with Uri Sasson. It could be that if there was not a bit of emotion involved here as well, the judoka who will be celebrating his 31st birthday in about a month, should not have been on this list that will rank every day until the opening ceremony the senior Olympic athletes' chances for a medal. But Sasson here opens the list not by grace.

After all, of the 89 athletes that Israel sends to Japan, he is the only one with an Olympic medal. He's already done it. Five years after the bronze in Rio, Sasson is not giving up. While Jordan Jerby has chosen to retire, he has chosen to stay and fight through the tough moments and he has been through a lot of those in the last five years. At world and European championships since the Olympics in Brazil he has not seen a podium, and sometimes even been eliminated in the first round, but at the 2020 Tel Aviv Grand Prix he won gold and still proved he has a warrior heart.

There are no light weights in judo and yet Sasson's 100 kg plus, is a weight that has been accumulated since Rio by other awesome judokas. In the heavyweight division is ranked 16. In the world top in 100-plus are two Russians, two Japanese and also the excellent Czech Lucas Karpalk. Rio, so it should be taken into account even now.

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Uri Sasson (Photo: AP, Ariel Schalit)

In the Israeli men's team, he is not the favorite for a medal.

Sagi Muki, Peter Plachik and even Tohar Botbol and Baruch Shmailov, are told before him to be on the podium, but perhaps from the place of the underdog who already made the huge achievement of his career five years ago, Sasson will come quietly on the last day of singles competitions at Nippon Bodokan Hall and do what That only Gal Friedman has done so far, to win two Israeli Olympic medals.

Judo can be a very cruel discipline.

You got up not the most focused, the head is out of place and the opponent is too strong and you can fly in the first battle and maybe even after a few seconds.

But Sasson will bring with him to Tokyo a lot of experience and the fact that the team is not ahead of him in the head, can help him even though it will be very difficult.

One way or another he has only what to gain.

Ratings have no meaning.

Uri Sasson vs. Teddy Riner (Photo: Reuters)

Another medal and maybe he will even aim for the Paris Olympics in three years.

A painful dismissal in the first round and may decide on other steps.

Anyway, it's pretty clear that his battle day will bring a lot of viewers to the screen after the tears that flowed from his eyes at the Olympic Park in Rio five years ago when he joined a respectable and limited list of athletes who won an Olympic medal.

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