“Sport is to win or lose,” said the Dominican Robert Florentino who stayed in the round of 32 this Tuesday when he fell 0-1 in his first fight against Quedjau Nhabali, of Ukraine, in a fight of the minus 90 category. kilos from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games judo tournament.
However, he looked somewhat disappointed by the result. He spent long months with his coach Wilkin Ogando, working long hours every day to get to Tokyo and lose his first outing.
Florentino, who has developed a brilliant career, came to Tokyo determined to advance to the close-ups, but everything was left on the mat in his first presentation on Wednesday morning when the Ukrainian Nhabali got the point of victory over the Dominican at 2 : 54 minutes with a “waza-ari-seoi-nage” to advance the round of 16 of the tournament held at the Nippon Budokan.
After getting the point, Nhabali received a warning at three minutes and nine seconds (3:09 minutes) for being a false attack. At one minute and 43 seconds (1:43 minutes), the Ukrainian was also booked with a yellow card for a shido-non-combativity.
Robert, 24 years old and in his first participation in the Olympic Games, could not decipher the technique of Nhabali, 31, who was already at the 2016 Olympic event in Rio de Janeiro.
Florentino, a native of San Juan de la Maguana, at the time of classification, was ranked 29th in the world ranking of the category, with 2,387 points, while the Ukrainian ranks 26th with a total of 2,495 units.
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