Japan’s athletes are winning medals day after day at the Paris Olympics. In judo, they have won two new medals. In the men’s 73kg third-place deciding match, Hashimoto Soichi is competing in his first Olympic Games at age 32. Just eight seconds into the match, he scores a waza-ari with a seoi-nage. He wins a bronze medal in his first appearance. He is the oldest medal winner in the history of Japanese judo. Hashimoto Soichi wins a bronze medal in his first Olympic appearance: “I thought that if I gave up here, I would definitely regret it, so I’ve been working hard for 32 years, and I’m glad I fought with that feeling alone.” Meanwhile, Funakubo Haruka in the women’s 57kg class won a heated match that lasted over nine minutes in the third-place deciding match, also winning the bronze medal.
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