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Tuesday's Judo Olympic tournaments had 2 clean dominators, both of them
winning all their 5 matches by Ippon in a short time span.

The Women's -63 Kgs category saw Ayumi Tanimoto of Japan imposing as the
best athlete. The fighter from the Rising Sun country is quite shorter than
most of her competitors, she's built like a compact powerhouse and her
amazing technical skills allowed her to fully exploit these anthropometric
measures. She mastered some breathtaking counterattacks whenever her
opponents tried some move against her. In her semifinal Tanimoto forced a
levy under the body of Argentinian Daniela Krukower with such a strenght
that the South American injuried her shoulder so much to taken away in a
stretcher. Further on Daniela withdraw from the bronze medal contest
because of this. In the final against the much taller Austrian Claudia
Heill, the Japanese first landed her competitor with a shoulder technique
that earned a WazaHari, then she managed to make the contest end within the
first minute keeping the European on the floor until the latter
surrendered.
The only contested bronze medal went to Urska Zolnir of Slovenia, thanks to
her opponent, the Canadian Marie Helene Chisholm, getting repeatedly
sanctioned for lack of combativity. Cuban Driulys Gonzales got the other
3rd place thanks to the forementioned walkover over Krukower (what a pun!).

The Men's -81 Kgs event recorded the youngest winner of a Judo Olympic
event ever, the 18 years old Ilias Iliadis, a Ge****a born naturalized
Greek. Iliadis stormed through his competitors like a hurricane on a
Caribbean island. Even a judoist owning a full baggage of both traditional
and personal techniques, the expert Russian Dmitri Nossov, was put out of
contest by the Hellenic in less than 2 minutes. Even faster had been the
final match against Roman Gontyuk of Ukraine. The man from the East
European plains hasn't even managed to take the grips on his opponent's
judoji that he was thrown to the floor by a combination of arm strenght and
inside leg hook technique by Iliadis, a short bulk type just like the women
event's triumpher.
In the first bronze final Nossov prevailed over Mehman Azizov of
Azerbaigian thanks to a series of winning technique, the critical one being
a roll over the shoulder. The other bronze went to Brazilian Flavio Canto,
who reversing on a tight floor fight his competitor Robert Krawczyk with
just one second to the end, also reversed the fate of a match that the
European was leading with some margin.