The French Olympic champion was beaten in the quarter-finals of the World Championships on Tuesday.
Published on 05/21/2024 22:53
Reading time: 1 min Clarrise Agbégnénou at the World Judo Championships, May 21, 2024. (RYAN LIM / AFP)
“I think I was too tactical and got caught in my own game”, declared, Tuesday May 21 on franceinfo, Clarisse Agbégnénou. Two months before the Olympics, the French Olympic champion was beaten in the quarter-finals of the World Championships in Abu Dhabi. “I’m going to use this rage, this rage towards myself to go for Olympic gold,” in Paris, she added.
Canadian Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard, world No.1 “was more tactical than me. I’m angry with myself because I should never have lost this quarter-final. I was really on top of it. It’s a good lesson that will be useful to me in two months “, recognized the Frenchwoman who was aiming for a 7th title at the Judo Worlds. She finally won the bronze medal.
She was knocked onto her side a minute before the end of the fight, “I was surprised, it destabilized me, I don’t even know how I fell” she explains. “I had one minute to bring her down but I didn’t adopt the right strategy. She played her game well, she was right. On the other hand, the scenario in two months will not be the same at all”, she convinces herself.
This is the first time that Clarisse Agbégnénou has lost against the Canadian, whom she had beaten in the semi-finals at the Olympic Games in Japan three years ago and in the quarter-finals of the 2023 World Cup. “it’s annoying, if I take bronze today and gold tomorrow, I won’t think about it anymore“to this failure.”I think that an upset Poor Clare is even worse than a Poor Clare who won a gold medal, the physical form I have today, I think it will hurt the Olympic Games.
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2024-05-21 22:02:45
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