Less than a year before the Olympic Games, it must be said that it’s a stain. Clarisse Agbegnenou finishes the European Judo Championships in Montpellier without a medal. The boss of French judo was first eliminated in the quarter-finals by Kosovar and world number 2 Laura Fazliu, before failing a second time in the repechage against Hungarian Szofi Ozba, letting her last chance to obtain a medal (bronze).
While she had already had a scare in the round of 16, Agbegnenou suffered a defeat marred by questionable golden score refereeing against Fazliu, to whom she thought she had managed to pass a waza-ari before following up with a immobilization which she finally interrupted after announcing her point (finally canceled). In the following sequence, the Hungarian will succeed, a validated waza-ari, and patatra. France and arbitration at the moment, it’s not really that.