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Can Essombe Tiako save the honor of Cameroon?

Josèphe-Essombe-Tiako carries all the hopes of Cameroon

Emilienne Essombe I love enter into competition this Thursday in the early hours of the morning against the Japanese Mukaida Mayu, 24 years. The fight will count for the 8th finals, at 53kg. Will Cameroon finally smile at these 2021 Olympic Games? Difficult to predict, as the days go by and look alike for the Cameroon Olympic team. Emilienne Essombe Tiako, 33, is the last athlete in the Cameroon olympic team still in competition. And concentrates all Cameroon’s medal hopes. The one who is certainly fighting for the last time at the Olympic Games, knows it and had already said she was ready for the competition when leaving Cameroon.

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Has Cameroon’s standard-bearer remained ready since the start of the Games? We’ll find out in the arena. But the wrestler knows that she bears the responsibility of a team that has not presented an indomitable face in the arenas. But the captain of the troops, she presents arguments that can justify the hopes of Cameroonians. The athlete is not his first experience of the Olympics. Already engaged in Rio 2016, Essombe Tiako is a girl experienced in high competition. Since 2012, Joseph Emilienne Essombe Tiako has remained on the podiums of the competitions in which she took part. In that year, engaged in the -59kg, the young girl at the time won the gold medal at the African Championships in Marrakech. The following year, she had repeated the feat in the same competition, in Ndjamena before falling back a notch (bronze) over the next three years in Tunis and then in Alexandria, in the 55kg. In 2017, the return to Moroccan lands still gives him the silver metal. Then climbed in gold in 2018 in the -58kg at the Francophonie games in Abidjan and the silver in the -57kg at the African Championships in Port Harcourt in Nigeria. In 2019, the Cameroonian won the gold medal at the African Games in Rabat. His last fight, better still his last victory, dates from April 2021 in Hammamet in Tunisia. This is also where Joseph Emilienne Essombe Tiako obtained his qualification for Tokyo 2020, beating his three opponents in the 53kg category.

While fighting, Essombe Tiako will remember the promise made to the Prime Minister

The captain of the troops thus has the heavy load of closing the games where her companions have done poorly. Table tennis opened the black series with Sarah Nana Hanffou. The best Cameroonian in the discipline had fallen upon entering the competition. Boxing had taken over with Wilfried Seyi. The man who was the only Cameroonian athlete to win a fight four years ago in Rio, could not repeat the feat in Tokyo. WhileAlbert Mengue Ayissi did it a day before. Before being himself eliminated in the round of 16. The last boxer, Maxime Yegnong, had also not been able to make the weight. facing the Russian Ivan Veriasov, in the 8th final in the + 91kg. judo did not save honor. Cameroon’s hopes rested on Vanessa Mballa Atangana. But the judokate who had distanced himself from the Cameroon Olympic team, had remained mired in extra-sporting quarrels, to finally fight without assistance from the national trainer. Facing the Turkish Sayit Kayra in the category of + 78kg. The four-time champion of Africa thus missed the point. She who aimed to offer Cameroon its first Olympic medal in judo. Arrey Sophina, she had already lost the first Cameroonian judo fight, by ippon, that is to say the stop of the referee. Swimming followed in the sad series. Even if Charly Ndjoume and Milanesi Norah each won their series in the 50m freestyle.

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