Like climbing a steep slope, it will be for Cuban judo to repeat the result of the last World Championship in Tashkent 2022, in which it finished among the eight best countries.
Not going with a full team to the Doha 2023 fair, which will start next week, already complicates the task, although with those who traveled in the last hours to Europe, you can aspire to a good final position, and surely to some medal.
Maylín del Toro (63 kilograms) and Idalys Ortiz (more than 78) are the main hopes in the female sex. Both have experience and rub shoulders with the planetary elite, so climbing the podium would not be a surprise.
Under normal conditions Idalys would go for the gold, but his preparation was greatly affected by injuries and that training debt almost always takes its toll, despite his enormous quality.
Arnaes Odelín (57) and Idelannis Gómez (70) complete the roster among the women, and despite being very promising, it would be a real surprise if they advanced beyond their preliminary groups, because from the outset their location on the universal list will open up a path for them. rugged.
The best hopes of gold in the men’s sector rest with the current champion in more than 100 kilos, Andy Granda, third in the world ranking in that division, but a lot will also depend on how his rivals present themselves.
The Georgian Guram Tushishbili, the Japanese Tatsuru Saito and the most stable man of recent times, the representative of Tajikistan Temor Rakhinov, appear as great candidates for the crown, but if the stellar Frenchman Teddy Riner is added to them, we are already talking about an epic.
The Frenchman did not attend the world fair organized in Uzbekistan, but just over a year before the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he is the figure in almost all promotions, he considers that it is time to get in shape.
If he is at his level, neither Granda nor anyone can overshadow him, but he already showed in Tokyo 2020 that he is human, and everyone will try to surprise and grab headlines at his expense.
Iván Silva (90) was world runner-up in Baku 2018 and arrives as fifth on the planetary ladder, but he will have two difficult obstacles in the Georgian Luka Maisuradze and the Japanese extra-class Murao Sanshiro, but he has the quality to defeat both if he makes a good plan of fight.
Magdiel Estrada (73) is perhaps one of the most technical in his category, but there is multi-medal Olympic medalist and world champion Lasha Shavdatuashvili, from Georgia, so you will have to go over him to take the crown.
In this case, a medal would be very well received, and much more so in the case of debutant Liester Cardona (100), at another difficult weight to see the flag wave on award day.
Cuba will also participate in the team competition, and here, depending on the draw, there could be a medal for either of the two sexes.
Clearly these forecasts are optimistic, but you always have to dream big.
2023-05-06 22:54:11
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