Judo: France win mixed team gold
There’s celebration for the hosts at the Champ-de-Mars Arena as the judo programme at Paris 2024 comes to a close, as France narrowly defend their Tokyo 2020 mixed team title!
Teddy Riner, Joan-Benjamin Gaba, and Clarisse Agbégnénou won their bouts for France, while wins by Murao Sanshiro, Takayama Rina, Tsunoda Natsumi scored for Japan.
It means that France, having been 3-1 down, have a single golden-score contest for gold.
And the random spin has landed on men’s +90kg! It’s Teddy Riner up for France against Saito Tatsuru!
"Teddy, Teddy" is the chant as we enter the fifth minute of this golden score match.
Saito picks up a shido warning, and a second, for non-combativity. One more and France win.
La Marseillaise from the crowd. Saito tries, and tries again, to get Riner, who holds him off.
Riner also picks up two shidos. The next warning or point will end this match.
Teddy Riner gets the ippon! The Champ-de-Mars Arena erupts! So does the Stade de France! France have won gold! His teammates run to embrace him. Saito is devastated.
Bronzes went to Brazil and Republic of Korea, who each required a golden score sudden-death match to win 4-3 against Italy and Germany respectively.