Defeated in the final after a good run and a long fight of five years to return to the top, the French Amandine Buchard could not hold back her tears at the microphone of France Televisions.
The judokate was powerless in the face of her pet peeve, the Japanese world champion Uta Abe.
She still brings back her second medal to the French clan after that of Luka Mkheidze, in bronze yesterday.
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