Ambition has never been a bad thing in sport.
Including – or especially – when it pushes you to try to dethrone a legend.
At 26, after having had a complicated start to his career due to multiple glitches in his left ankle, judoka Joseph Terhec dreams of competing in the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024. In one category, the over 100kg, which is for fifteen years the playground, and the preserve, of a certain Teddy Riner.
Ten world champion titles, two individual Olympic titles (2012 and 2016) plus one for teams in Tokyo last summer, a series of 154 victories in a row completed on February 9, 2020… The figures concerning the Guadeloupean still give the vertigo even if, at 33, he no longer appears as dominating as before.
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Moreover, for ten years, only two men have overcome the legend: the Japanese Kokoro Kageura and… Joseph Terhec himself, on October 3…
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