The All Japan Judo Federation announced next month that it will send five athletes who have been nominated to represent the Tokyo Olympics, including Uta Abe, a 52-kilogram female athlete who will participate in the international competition in Uzbekistan for the first time in about a year. did.
On the other hand, Shohei Ono, who is aiming for the second consecutive Olympic title, will be absent due to his thigh injury.
The All Japan Judo Federation has decided to dispatch athletes at an international competition to be held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, starting next month for three days.
All Japan Judo Federation announced on the 26th that it will dispatch 11 athletes, including 5 athletes who have been appointed as representatives of the Tokyo Olympics, such as Abe, a 52-kilogram female athlete.
The athletes who have been appointed as the representatives of the Tokyo Olympics in judo have been unable to participate in the competition for more than a year because the international competitions have been canceled or postponed one after another due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection. In this tournament, we will regain the sense of actual battle and aim to earn points in the international ranking related to the seed rights of the Olympic Games.
All Japan Judo Federation will dispatch athletes under strict infection prevention measures such as performing PCR tests multiple times before leaving Japan and when returning to Japan and complete isolation at the site.
On the other hand, on the 25th, Ohno, a 73-kilometer male player who was planning to participate in this tournament and is aiming for the second consecutive Olympic title, will be absent because he was diagnosed with a muscle injury in his left thigh that required four weeks of treatment. I did.