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Sagi Muki is Tel Aviv’s hero on Grand Slam Day Two
Sagi Muki takes gold at Tel Aviv – Copyright Euronews / IJF
By Euronews with IJF
On day two of the 2023 Tel Aviv Grand Slam, the crowd eagerly awaited the arrival of their local hero, former world champion, Sagi Muki.
Muki was looking back to his best at a venue that’s been good to him and after a stunning semi-final victory, the crowd dared to believe.
And the building couldn’t contain the roars of the crowd when after just 12 seconds he secured victory over Turkey’s Veda Albayrak – and his first gold medal since his world championship triumph in 2019.
After receiving his medal from Moshe Ponte, the President of the Israeli Judo Association, Muki had a message for the fans
“I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart,” he said. “To see this, the love from the Israeli crowd is so important to me. To know that they appreciate my way. And all the effort, all the hard work, everything it’s worth for them, for their support, for their love”
More success for Canada
At -63kg, Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard’s impressive armlock on Cuba’s Maylin Del Toro Carvajal gave Canada yet another gold.
Vlad Marinescu, the IJF Director General, was on hand to award the medals.
“It’s a lot of mental games,” said Beauchemin-Pinard afterwards. “So I think I work on that and see the error I did in Paris, and correct it here, and it worked pretty well.”
Switzerland’s Nils Stump completed a day of surprises by getting to the -73kg final. There he overcame German veteran Igor Wandtke in a golden score extra time period to win his second Grand Slam title.
George Teseleanu, a guest of the IJF, awarded him his medal.
And at under -70kgs, France’s Margaux Pinot took gold with victory over Germany’s Miriam Butkereit. IJF Guest Cosmin Balcacean gave her her medal.
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Bari still knocked out and last, Modena gets unblocked
Modena-Bari 2-1
Second consecutive defeat (third considering also the elimination from the Coppa Italia at the hands of Cremonese on penalties) for Bari, last in the Serie B standings obviously with zero points.
The Apulian team è was also beaten in the advance of the second day of the cadet championship, played at the Alberto Braglia Stadium in Modena against the hosts coached by Bisoli (expelled for double admonition for protests). Palumbo and Pedro Mendes reversed the guest’s initial lead by Novakovich.
This is the schedule for the rest of the day:
Saturday, August 24, 7:30 pm
Südtirol – Salernitana
Or 20:30
Brescia – Cittadella
Cremonese – Carrarese
Pisa – Palermo
Sampdoria – Reggiana
Sassuolo – Cesena
Spezia – Frosinone
Sunday, August 25, 8:30 pm
Catanzaro – Juve Stabia
Mantua – Cosenza
CLASSIFICATION
Juve Stabia 3
Cesena 3
Salernitana 3
SudTirol 3
Brescia 3
Cosenza 3
Modena 3
Spezia 1
Pisa 1
Frosinone 1
Mantua 1
Reggiana 1
Sampdoria 1
Catanzaro 1
Sassuolo 1
Cittadella 0
Carrarese 0
Cremonese 0
Palermo 0
Bari 0
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Simone Giannelli returns to work after Olympics
The words of Simone Giannelli
Simone Giannelli, Sir’s blue-blue setter, at the end of his three-year term, has renewed for three more seasons and is thus about to experience his fourth consecutive one in the HCL jersey. In just three years he has won with President Gino Sirci’s club two Club World Cups, two Super Cups, two Italian Cups and a Scudetto.
He underwent a session in the weight room this morning and will join the group in the coming days. Muscle strengthening in the weight room also for center Roberto Russo, who renewed for two more years (until 2025-26) and is about to play his sixth season in a row with Sir Susa Vim Perugia. Kamil Semeniuk è is in his third year at Sir. He, too, took the weight room session this morning and says he is ready to start again toward all the club’s goals.
“I am very happy to be back here in Perugia and to have started the preparation for this new season,” said Simone Gianelli, “this is now my home and I am really happy to have found everyone again! It has already been three years and we start with the fourth, è amazing how fast time goes by, so I am very happy to have ended my last contract and to have opened another cycle, I am very happy becauseé playing here in Perugia è always a pleasure and a pride. I’m very charged up: the successes there have been quite a few these years, I’m glad forò those are now behind us so we have to try to think about what we have to do to try to get back to being “final””.
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Max Verstappen worried, Lewis Hamilton laughs it off
The words of Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen isn’t satisfied with Friday’s fifth time: “We’re a little bit too slow in the short runs and also in the race simulation, there’s a lot of work to do. At the moment there’è no immediate way to improve the situation, but we will look at it in detail”.
“For now we are simply too slow, that’s it. This performance is not è a big surprise: we are where we were in the last few races. We will try to find moreù performance for Sunday”, concluded his analysis the home driver, definitely worried.
In a different mood Lewis Hamilton: ““We finally have a car that allows us to start already on Friday from a good base and then work on the details. That makes everything easier and more enjoyable. We have to improve on pure performance. As for the pace over distance, I don’t know yet. We are not the fastest, but maybe we can play it”.
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