The judo team to be held in Tel Aviv next week
The judo team will head to Tel Aviv, Israel, next week, where it will set up a training camp there in preparation for the (Grand Slam Tel Aviv) tournament, which will be held from February 18-20.
The team will set up a joint camp with the Israeli team, where its organization comes at the invitation of the Israeli Federation, within the framework of the existing cooperation relations between the two parties.
The President of the Emirates Wrestling and Judo Federation, Mohammed bin Thaaloub, Al-Dari, reassured the team's preparations and arrangements before traveling, and urged the players to make the most of the camp and the tournament in which many strong schools will participate.
The camp, then the championship, comes within the program of preparing our team for the upcoming official participations, headed by the Tokyo Olympics, which our team has qualified for, and is the first priority in all foreign participations.
It is expected that the national team at the Tel Aviv Grand Slam tournament will be represented by the player Victor Skatov, the winner of the bronze medal in the weight of 73 kg at the last Asian Games in Jakarta, and the player Ivan, who is participating for the first time in the tournament with a weight of 100 kg.
The team preparation program also includes participation in the Turkish Grand Prix Championship, scheduled for April 1, 2021, and the Grand Slam Championship in Tashkent in Uzbekistan on May 5, then the Grand Slam Championship in Paris on May 8, 2021, to be followed by the World Judo Championship in Budapest from 8 - June 13, before heading to the Tokyo Games.
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