Her track record suggested that Shirine Boukli would prove herself at the World Championships in Tashkent in Uzbekistan. But the French judoka will not go further than the third round. In less than 48 kilos, Shirine Boukli had however been crowned European champion twice, in 2020 as well as this year. But at 23, she failed to get the better of Kazakhstan’s Abiba Abuzhakynova. This Thursday morning, the latter won the waza-ari.
Next goal: the dream of the Olympic Games
« I’m disgusted, I feel like it’s not real. I didn’t do the job “Reacted hot Shirine Boukli. For The teamthe French judoka says she is ” drunk » while his « strongest competitors will go all the way and she will wonder why not her. » « I know that the place on the podium was doable. And even winning, I could have, it was clearly possible. There, it’s a mixture of full of emotions », Saddened Shirine Boukli.
While the next judo world will take place in Qatar in 2023, she says she wants above all to be an Olympic champion. ” I have the rage in me, I know that I have the possibility of becoming it. The objective is to be ready that day because it is the Holy Grail and the objective of a lifetime. If it is necessary to go through a defeat at this World Championship and perhaps a victory at the next one, I take “, assures the reigning European champion.
to summarize
Despite the hopes placed in her, the Frenchwoman Shirine Boukli did not manage to exceed the third round of the World Championships in Tashkent in Uzbekistan, this Thursday. The French judoka says she is “drunk”.
