Niko Sherazadishvili, bronze medalist in judo in the last European Championship, in the -100 kilo category, said Thursday that his goal is to be “Olympic champion” at the next Paris Games for which he is preparing with “a lot of motivation.” .
In his first Olympic participation, in the Tokyo Games, he could not get a medal despite being number one in the world ranking of his category (-90 kg) and finished in seventh place after losing in the quarterfinals with the Russian Mijail Igolnikov and in the playoff against the Uzbek Davlat Bobonov.