It was the race of
the 50 km walk
to open the Japanese Olympic morning, on the day when Japan remembers the Hiroshima tragedy with controversy over the missed minute of silence at the Games, by choice of the IOC and the organizing committee. In Sapporo, the Polish Dawid Tomala, a specialist in the 20 km who passed from not long ago to the longest distance, won: the choice paid off and now at home they hope that he will become the heir of the great Robert Korzeniowski, absolute legend of this athletics specialty. . For him it would be like winning another time. Bad for the Italians, with Agrusti 23 / o and De Luca and Caporaso withdrawn. Spaniard Jesus Angel Garcia took part in the 50 km, who at 51 became the oldest participant in an Olympic athletics competition. The 1993 world champion also set another record,that of having taken part in eight editions of the Games, a record that up to now he shared in his sport, at seven, with Merlene Ottey.
In the
fight,
the blue
Abraham Conyedo Ruano
(like Chamizo, a naturalized Cuban) moved to the quarterfinals of the Tokyo 2020 tournament, after beating the Romanian Albert Saritov 6-1 in the round of 16, but lost to the American Kyle Frederik Snyder and now hopes for the repechage. Outside, however, in
men's kata
, a specialty of
karate
(it is the one against an imaginary rival), the blue
Mattia Busato
, who was unable to obtain the qualification for the second phase.
