Seeds of success: Tokyo 2020 changed the status of Israeli sports? - Walla! Tokyo 2020 Olympics

2021-08-08T13:17:15.801Z

Ashram's vague future, Dolgofiat's next goal, the required change in judo, the hope in fantasy fantasy swimming in athletics and the cards preyed on sailing

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Seeds of success: Tokyo 2020 changed the status of Israeli sports?

Ashram's vague future, Dolgofiat's next goal, the required change in judo, hope in swimming, fantasy in athletics and the cards preyed on sailing.

The closing ceremony of the wonderful Olympics of the Israeli delegation is also the moment to examine the situation ahead of Paris 2024

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All the champions who preceded her retired on average at the age of 22. Linoy Ashram at the closing ceremony of the Olympics (Photo: GettyImages, Abbie Parr)

At the beginning of the 2024 Olympic cycle, they will mainly ask how Israeli athletes will continue to win gold medals and voice hope, and how they will continue to star in industries where there is no room for mistakes and most importantly - was it a coincidence?

Are Linoy Ashram and Artium Dolgofyat once-in-a-lifetime athletes in a small country like Israel or will they, like judo, build a tradition here?

Maybe the answer is both, and maybe we can hope that the 22-year-old Ashram will continue for another Olympic campaign.

The truth is that all the Olympic champions who preceded her retired on average at the age of 22 except for Alina Kabayeva who did it at the age of 24 and was the only one to manage to win Olympic gold twice.

But in such a demanding sport, it is impossible to know, certainly not right now, how much energy the new Israeli Olympic champion has?

For now, just enjoy this sentence.

In the case of Dolgofiat, nothing seems to stop him from going on another Olympic campaign.

It is true that he is currently mentally exhausted and that is also the reason why he will probably not participate in the upcoming world championships which will be held already in October in Japan.

But Dolgofyat is only 24 and he grew up in the shadow of Alex Shtilov who has competed in the Olympics four times and is now 34. This means that if he maintains his health, he can continue not only to Paris but to Los Angeles 2028 - and these will be the games we watch The fruits that will grow from the seeds planted by Shtilov and Dolgofiat.

Nothing will stop him from going on another Olympic campaign.

Artium Dolgofiat (Photo: Reuters)

But there are still a few good years to reap the rewards, which is exactly why, towards Paris 2024, Israeli sports should continue to concentrate on the industries that are so identified with us, judo and sailing. Some of the judokas are young enough to continue to Paris, hopefully most of those we saw in Tokyo. In some weights have been worthy rivals of the country near Olympic campaign (such as cotton Primo weighing up to 52 kg women) but some other heirs have not yet visible on the horizon.

It's just time to do things that would make the Israeli judo to be deeper, perhaps salaries and incentives Higher for judokas who are not necessarily the best in the country in their weight, maybe more cash prizes in competitions, probably as many competitions abroad and most importantly - as many internal struggles for the right to represent Israel in Paris 2024, without depriving those who remain outside and with faith And a desire that in Israeli judo is worth making a career even if you do not get to the Olympics.This is how it works in the big countries that win a lot of medals.

When it comes to Israeli swimming, these games ended in an unprecedented and hallucinatory way.

An Israeli swimmer advanced to the Olympic finals - this is something we were so far from in previous campaigns.

And she is not yet 18 years old and will be ahead of her and one can only fantasize about the abilities she will have at the age of 20 and a half when she competes in Paris.

Anastasia Gurbanko advanced to the Olympic final and many swimming enthusiasts were left with a feeling of missing out because in her strong ointment she did not live up to expectations.

What fun to end these games with the troubles of the rich.

First Gurbanko, and then giving Roditi.

Who would have believed that we would say about the first Israeli open water swimmer at the Olympics that he missed out on a medal, and also to the Italian Gregorio Platinieri who is one of the greatest distance swimmers of all time?

One can only fantasize.

Anastasia Gorbanko, Itai Goldfaden and Gal Cohen Gromi (Photo: GettyImages, Clive Rose)

In the case of swimming in the pool, Gorbanko jumped this industry long before the Olympic Games in Paris, at the top of Israeli swimming a lot of money is invested and hopefully also in the stairs below. It is still unclear which of the professional team members will continue to Paris 2024 but probably the answers will come soon because there is not too much time. Open water swimming is run by the same association but with completely different people.

Here one should simply continue to utilize the resources. Continue to work with a large and deep team that also includes swimmers who regularly compete in the pools, and take advantage of the tremendous resources we have here in the country. No one has to travel anywhere to train, everything is here and the huge achievement of giving Roditi must be leveraged, also himself because he is only 22 years old and under him there are currently dozens of young swimmers some of whom have already made respectable appearances in international competitions. There is no reason why Israeli swimmers should not be major players in the world open water competitions.

Able to dream of a medal?

Marrow Teppery (Photo: GettyImages)

And now to the queen of sports.

In the stadium itself we saw two amazing results: Hannah Minenko's sixth place in the triple jump and Slamvit's 10th place in the Aulin-Teferi final in the women's 5,000 final.

But given the fact that to date the best achievement of Israeli athletics in the Olympic marathon was 20th place, the fact that Teferi finished in a higher position and that Girma said he finished in a not much lower place - says a lot.

The marathon is one of the disciplines in which we have seen the greatest progress in recent years and all thanks to a line of blue-and-white trainers and a very impressive depth of runners, who are finally getting slightly better conditions.

It's still far from ideal conditions but it's good.

Marrow Teferi who finished in 13th place, will not be Eliod Kipchuga.

But he can certainly be a slave to Nagia, the Dutchman of Somali descent who won the silver medal against all odds and his personal best is just a minute faster than that of the Israeli, and his career high was recorded today at 32. Understandably, in the Olympic marathon there are always surprises. By runners who have never won major marathons in the world with pace dictators.

Teferi is currently the leading road runner in the country, but the one who is marked as his successor and perhaps as a road runner seen in Paris is Tadasa Gethon, and in general - there are wonderful runners in the country including the sick malka refugee who came to Israel from Eritrea and Tokyo represented the refugee team.

We must continue to invest and deepen in the long road runs in the country, so that next time we can talk about the top 10 in the men's marathon, and from the top 10 we can reach the medal.

The rules of the game change.

Katie Spitchkov (Photo: GettyImages, Clive Mason)

We will end with the industry that was once number 1 and is sailing, and here the Israeli union will probably have a lot of work and a lot of headaches towards Paris 2024. Say goodbye to the RSX windsurfers and move to the extreme model iQFoil which completely changes the rules of the game.

Separate from 470 sailboats for men or women and stay with 470 sailboats for a mixed couple.

In short, everything that was on the Israeli Olympic cruise (except for the individual laser model) is changing and there is not too much time until Paris.

So far, there have been a number of important competitions in the world, some of which have already been competed by surfers from around the world who also starred in Tokyo 2020 in the farewell performance of the RSX.

In any case, the World Cup is expected to take place in Slovenia this month, and there we will be able to understand where we are headed.

Danny Borszewski is an athletics commentator on the sports channel and Schwang.

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