Wolf Aaron won the Judo GS Paris Tournament (AP)
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Ulf Aron (27 = Park 24), who won the gold medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in the men’s 100kg class, won the championship after winning six matches starting in the first round. Dohiro Arai (19 = Tokai University), who is competing to represent this summer’s Paris Olympics, has a clear advantage and inferiority after losing in the third round, so he will be selected as a representative for the second consecutive Olympics at an extraordinary training committee that will be held in the middle of this month. became certain. By winning an international tournament for the first time in two and a half years since the Olympics, he made an impression of his comeback and is aiming to become the first athlete in the 100kg class to win back-to-back Olympics.
The normally cheerful man who was good at making people laugh threw his hands up in emotion. He faced his second consecutive Olympics with only the skin of his neck connected to him, and his big moment came in Paris. With a stunning comeback win, Wolff almost secured a ticket to the festival to be held in six months, and he said, “It’s been a long road to get here.I feel relieved,” he said with real feeling in his words.
After the Tokyo Olympics, where Japanese athletes won nine gold medals. The world is still under the coronavirus pandemic, and while other players declined offers to appear in the media, Wolff was the only one who accepted them all. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t see him on TV, and my personal manager’s notebook is full of plans for the next two or three months. Everything was done with the sole intention of “I want people to learn more about judo through me,” but the price was high.
Losing weight, which at one time exceeded 130 kilograms, was a difficult task, and plans for a comeback were postponed twice due to injury and coronavirus infection. His greatest weapon, stamina, was also gone, and even after his return, he suffered early defeats in international tournaments. At the GS Tokyo tournament last December, he lost in the repechage match and placed 7th. He was at a loss for Tokuho in the race to represent him at the Paris Olympics, but in preparation for this tournament, he spent the New Year’s holiday keeping his weight under control and regained his sharpness in technique. In the semi-finals and finals, his strong point was his uchimata. He said, “I realized once again that if you prepare properly, you will get results.”
Before the tournament, Keiji Suzuki, the coach of Japan’s men’s national team, who had indicated winning a medal as a condition for deciding the competition for the national team, said, “Winning the championship is very important in the selection of the national team.I think it will be discussed with the training committee.” A clear statement. The only representative of all 14 classes for men and women that has not been decided yet is the “Resurrected Golden Wolf.”
◇Wolf Aron Born on February 25, 1996 (Heisei 8), 27 years old from Tokyo. He started judo at the age of 6 and attended Chiba/Tokai University Urayasu High School and Tokai University. He won the World Championship in 2017, his first appearance, and won the All Japan Championship in 2019, which is an open weight competition. He also won the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the eighth Japanese male to win three titles. He has been with Park24 since April last year. His left-handed grappling techniques include Ouchi-gari and Uchi-mata. His father is from the United States and his mother is Japanese. His hobby is cleaning fish. 1 meter 81.
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2024-02-05 19:56:20
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