To “Tokyo Olympics as“ Post-Yoshida Sahori ”Mayu Mukaida Wrestling September 18th 13:12
This is an active retirement interview with Saori Yoshida, held in January. Immediately after that, Ms. Mukada, who continued to follow Yoshida's back in the same 53 kilometer class, renewed his mind, "I will do my best to win a gold medal at the Olympics like Mr. Sahori."
Then 8 months.
Mukaida decided to advance to the finals for four consecutive tournaments at the World Championship and grabbed a ticket to Tokyo. With the great expectation of “Post-Yoshida”, we aim for a gold medal on the stage of the Olympic Games with a great senior class.
The weight of “Post-Yoshida Saori”
“Even if you are not Mr. Yoshida, you have to do your best to be said that Japanese players are strong in this class.”
Three years ago, Mukaida told our interview:
While the Rio de Janeiro Olympics were over and Yoshida's progress was uncertain, he fully understood the weight of aiming for the Tokyo Games at the 53km class.
Immediately after speaking the word, the world championship was the gold medal at the first appearance, the silver medal in 2017, but recaptured the gold medal last year.
The voice of expecting participation in the Tokyo Olympics as “Post-Yoshida Sahori” has increased.
"I will attack you to the end"
Mr. Mukaida has been admiring Mr. Yoshida, 15 years old since he was an elementary school student. The greatest characteristic is the same attack power as Yoshida-san, especially the timing of entering the tackle.
"One foot tackle" jumping from a distance.
"Kuguri tackle" that takes a foot through the place where the opponent has pushed.
Take a variety of skills and take points one after another.
The challenge is to make use of the attack power to “do it through to the end”.
Up until now, the first half of the game has been taking the points in a row and leading, while the second half has been one of the defenses.
The challenges are highlighted in the 2017 World Championships and Kotono Asian Championships that missed the championship. While leading, he was reversed and lost just before the end.
Mukoda realized the difference from Mr. Yoshida who continued to attack until the end of the match and did not give up the top of the world, increased the amount of practice to strengthen stamina, and even with sparring, the hand of attack I have been practicing consciousness not to loosen.
“Attitude to attack” in the final
In this tournament, Mukoda has overwhelmed the opponent from the beginning with a variety of attacks, and there are almost no goals in the four games until the semi-final. We showed strength suitable for “Post-Yoshida Sahori”.
However, the attack in the second half was stiff and only one point was scored in the second half, except for the third round where the technical fall was won. There seemed to be a problem of “progressing to the end”.
And 18th. The opponent of the final was a North Korean player who lost the turn in the Asian Championship in April.
“Mr. Yoshida is a great person, but I want to show that Mukoda is also taking the gold medal of the world championship at the 53 kilometer class,” Mukoda said again.
As a successor of a great senior who was said to be “the strongest of primates,” the true value of the battle will be questioned as to whether or not he will be able to penetrate the finals.