“I am very happy to see everyone, happy that we, as a team, can bring this pride [a la nación]”, He said.
“It is amazing what is happening here,” he said. Sasson about welcoming fans.
“It’s hard to accept all the love, support and encouragement. It’s crazy, ”he said Hershko To the place Ynet. “It is an indescribable, supreme happiness, something we worked on for so long and achieved as one team.”
“We knew we would return to Israel with a medal ”, said the coach of the team Oren Smadja. “We are happy. With soul and heart we managed to win in the end ”.
The Israeli judo delegation, although it had expectations of greater success, did not win any other medals in the Tokyo Olympics.
“When you come back with a medal around your neck, it’s a great success anyway,” he said. Smadja, who won a bronze medal in judo at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
The eventual victory of Israel for the bronze came a few days after anonymous officials from the delegation of Israel to the Tokyo Olympics they voiced strong criticism of the country’s judo team.
“This is a huge failure. Conclusions must be drawn about how this collapse occurred in the Games Olympics“An unidentified delegation official said last Thursday to Ynet.
“There is something systematic here, it is not a one-time failure, and all the judokas lost to inferior rivals,” the official said.
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