Less than a week before the opening of the World Judo Championships in Tashkent, the Israeli teams are completing their preparations for one of the highlights of the season.
The Jews will want to accumulate as many world ranking points as possible, which will help them achieve the criterion for their Olympic Games in Paris.
The team will go out with 18 athletes who will fill the allowed quota for men and women in this event, where a team competition is also expected on the last day.
Sagi Muki, who managed to go the farthest in 2019, when he won gold at the World Championships in Tokyo in the weight category up to 81 kg, will try to do it again, saying: "Before any competition, especially on the scale of the World or European Championships, there are butterflies in the stomach, if there were no It is possible to recreate 2019, from the beginning I would not have made it to the competition."
"It wasn't an easy year for me, as someone who was used to standing on the podiums and succeeding in competitions, being at the bottom is something I'm not used to, but I know how to get out of these places. I've often been in challenging times in my career, and if I didn't believe I could return to the top of the world, Where I belong, I wouldn't continue. I believe in myself and in the world championship I'm going with all my might."
Inbar Lanir, who will compete in the weight category up to 78 kg, said: "I feel in top shape and very excited.
We are not aiming for less than a medal, we returned from training camps in an intense period and I feel the best possible.
Every day that passes I'm better, as far as I'm concerned I'm a new amber and it's only going to get better and better."
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Feeling good for the competition, photo: Oren Aharoni
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