The multiple world champion announced on Monday being insufficiently recovered from an injury. The world championships take place in Tashkent from October 6 to 13.
Le Monde
In September 2007, a young 18 -year -old colossus, still unknown, won the first world title of a future long series. Fifteen years later, Teddy Riner knows that he must spare his body if he wants to push the adventure to the Paris Games in 2024. Two years before the deadline that would resemble a consecration, the Guadeloupe does not want to take No risk.
At 33, the Olympic bronze medalist in Tokyo announced, on Monday, September 19, its package for the next world championships, which will take place in Tashkent (Ouzbékistan), from October 6 to 13. “Alas I feared it, but the medical examinations passed today confirmed that I will not be able to resume judo for a few weeks, which therefore excludes my participation in the next world tashkent championships,” he wrote on the networks social.
Before adding: “Two years from the Olympic Games, I cannot take any risk. Come is made for the next World Championships next May in Qatar.”
If he did not specify the nature of his injury, the judoka of PSG had hurt an ankle during an internship in Morocco at the end of August. Since its second Olympic title in Rio, in 2016, judoka has suffered from many physical concerns. Already surrounded by ten world titles – the last in 2017 – Riner has not run for a long time after the gold medals in this competition. He has not contributed to the world championships since his last success in Marrakech, five years ago.
In 2018, he explained to the world “the suffering of a worn body”: “I have to save my body. After more than ten years on the international scene, it is already quite worn out. I no longer have much Of cartilages, I have osteoarthritis in the shoulders and knees. I am inject a gel containing hyaluronic acid so that I feel less pain, that I “incubates” less … “
Teddy Riner is obsessed with his last challenge: a third Olympic gold medal in individual. In Japan in 2021, he was crowned by teams with his teammates. A new coronation in Paris would make him the most successful judoka in the history of the games, equaling his idol, the Japanese Tadahiro nomura.