Serious things have begun in view of the Paris-2024 Games for French judoka Teddy Riner, who began a ten-day training camp on Friday in Rio de Janeiro, before a return to competition scheduled for July, in Budapest.
“The return to competition will be on the Budapest Grand Slam, that’s for sure”revealed in an interview with AFP the triple Olympic champion (two individual titles and one team) after his first training in Brazil. “Then there will be other competitions, but it will really depend on how I come back to this first tournament. We give ourselves time. I would like to go to the Worlds in October, but we will see.he added.
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Hard work ?? Smooth rest ?? pic.twitter.com/0v8NGn9F01
— Teddy Riner (@teddyriner) March 2, 2022
Teddy Riner, 32, resumed training in Paris in early January after a six-month hiatus following the Tokyo Games.
His last participation in the world championships dates back to 2017, in Budapest, where he was crowned world champion for the tenth time, an absolute record.
In search of competition
On Friday, in training, he met Rafael Silva, double Olympic bronze medalist, whom he has faced many times in the final stages of major competitions, and rising stars like Joao Cesarino, 26, at the training center. of the Brazilian Olympic Committee.
“Today I changed my tune, I train a lot more abroad because I will seek competition, the opposition”explained the ten-time world champion.
“It’s the starting point, the first internship abroad, and we didn’t choose the smallest school, we chose the Brazilians. It’s a very good initiative to come here, I’m not disappointed, from the first training, I had in front of strong fighters “he concluded.
At the Tokyo Games, Teddy Riner did not manage to win his third individual gold medal, settling for bronze, but he allowed France to seek the first Olympic title in team history in beating Japan at home.
