Two months before the Olympic Games, Walide Khyar (-66 kg) was not reassured at the World Championships in Abu Dhabi, leaving Monday in the round of 16, even if he sees “a lot of positives” in this day.
“I came to win a title, unfortunately it didn’t happen, I don’t have much to say.” Lucid, the 28-year-old Frenchman is now 100% focused on the Paris Olympics. Khyar, who was left with two initial defeats during Grand Slams in Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, put an end to this negative spiral against the young Kazakh Zhanarys Rakhmetkali, disqualified after an exit from the mat synonymous with a third penalty.
He continued, again in around three minutes, against the Moroccan Abderrahmane Boushita, using all his weight to make him fall on his back. Ippon. But in the eighth, without a solution, the Frenchman, world number 17, was blocked twice by the young Tajik Emomali Nurali, world number 9.
“I have had several competitions recently, I injured my rib a little last week” in Kazakhstan, he explained, “I came to this championship a little injured, you could see it on the eighth “.