Today’s journey continues flawlessly. Odette Giuffridawho also beat Rika Bob in a decisive match in the race for the podium and Qualifies for the Olympic semi-finals for the third time in a row in the under-52kg category. On the occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the afternoon, the Romanian will seek the third pentathlon medal in her career, after the silver in Rio 2016 and the bronze in Tokyo 2021.
One of the brightest stars of the Italian movement, who was bypassed in the first round with a bye as the No. 3 seed, had beaten the American Angelica Delgado in her first appearance at the tournament in the gold score and then faced the Hungarian Popp, the sixth seed, in the quarter-finals of a series that the Italian had already lost three years ago in the bronze medal final in Tokyo.
Giuffrida, who had a 4-1 lead in previous head-to-head matches, after winning the world title in Abu Dhabi, confirmed her superiority over Tatami in the competition with Bob, and she always expected her opponent in the Comikata stage and Find the critical action 1’39” from the end using Harai-goshi-gaeshi waza-ar classificationI.
Up front, the 29-year-old used her vast experience to manage the situation without taking risks and neutralize the Hungarians’ power, also playing Shido’s moves to false attack in the last seconds of the fight. In the semi-finals, Odette will meet the formidable Kosovar Destrij Krasniqi. Olympic gold medalist in Tokyo in the lower weight class and No. 2 in the world, with a possible gold medal final against the winner of the Kildurova-Bochard match or a bronze medal final against one of Ballhaus and Pimienta (playing in a repechage).
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