“It’s great for kids who are watching judo now”.
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The girl from the favela, from the city of God, did it again, after 2013 she hadn’t win a huge medal at world level, despite two Grand Prix victories, but it wasn’t important. “I am very confident that golf’s players over the coming Olympic games will all come and play”.
“If these children have a dream, they have to believe it can be done”.
RIO DE JANEIRO-A female athlete from the favelas won Brazil’s first gold medal of the Rio Games on Monday as Michael Phelps stepped up his campaign for yet more Olympic honours. After seven minutes of competition (four minutes of regulation, plus three minutes of golden score time), Silva executed a flawless counterattack on Caprioriu, slamming the Romanian to the ground for the winning waza-ari. She nearly quit the sport.
“After my defeat in London, I thought about quitting judo and started doing work with my psychologist”, revealed the new champion. Ms. Silva, 24, says she took up judo after she was repeatedly caught up in street fights. My coach encouraged me every day. “I’m just happy to be here”, Efimova said.
“But I came back, I trained to the maximum and the results came.”Fighting in front of her home fans she was determined not to let them down”. “I want to be like Rafaela someday”. Russian Federation took gold and silver in the women’s sabre fencing as Yana Egorian beat Sofiya Velikaya, who again suffered heartbreak after also losing the 2012 Olympic final.
The Japanese judo team in 2012 only brought home one gold medal (from Kaori Matsumoto), and for the first time ever, the men’s team did not win a single gold.
Quadros’s worldwide career was cut short by the emergence of Silva, 24, in 2011 when she took silver medals at the world championships and Pan-American Games.
American Lilly King won a trash-talking duel with Russian Yulia Efimova for the gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke on Monday night, the US men’s basketball team surged after a slow start, beating Venezuela 113-69, and Serena Williams struggled before beating France’s Alize Cornet 7-6 (5), 6-2 in her bid for a second consecutive singles gold medal.
She needed a period of golden score to get past Romania’s Corina Caprioriu in the semi-final after a nervy bout that remained on tenterhooks throughout. She battled back to win the Bronze Medal Match against her friend and training partner Lien Chen-Ling of Chinese Taipei, who earlier in the day upset US medal hopeful Malloy in the Round of 16. The other bronze went to Dirk Van Tichelt of Belgium, who submitted Ungvari.
It was the culmination of a career’s striving for Monteiro at her fourth, and probably last Games.
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Hungary’s “Iron Lady” Katinka Hosszu will be one to watch when she competes in Monday’s 100m backstroke final, after smashing the 400m individual medley world record on Saturday.
