At this hour, the town of Mont-Saint-Martin, in Meurthe-et-Moselle must be on fire and for good reason!
It now has an Olympic champion in its ranks.
At 24, Steven Da Costa pocketed gold at the Tokyo Olympics thanks to his victory in the final of the -67 kg tournament against the Turkish Eray Samdan (5-0).
The Lorrain, world champion in Madrid in 2018, had come for the gold and he had said: “It would be a great disappointment not to come home with the gold.
I go there for gold, not for silver or bronze ”.
The one who is a receptionist on line C of the RER has therefore kept his promise at the end of an Olympic tournament during which he committed a single odd number in pools.
Previously, Da Costa, world number 1 in -67 kg, defeated Kazakh Darkhan Assadilov (5-2) in the semi-final.
🇫🇷 OLYMPIC CHAMPIOOOON !!!!
Thank you Steven Da Costa for the thrills, forever the first 🥇 # GoLesBleus # Tokyo2020ffk pic.twitter.com/M720juJfHL
- France Team (@EquipeFRA) August 5, 2021
This gold medal won at the Nippon Budokan, a mythical temple of martial arts, has a special flavor since it is the first and probably the only presence of karate at the Olympic Games.
Indeed this sport will no longer be present at the Paris Games in three years.