The most notable event was the first historic match between Iran’s former champion Saeed Mollavi and 30-year-old Israeli athlete Sagi Mukhi at the Judo Grand Prix held in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday. The two tied in original time, then Molloy won, and extra time ended with a warm embrace between them in the ring, a kiss on the forehead, and the audience applauded, which almost spread the news of the fight last evening to most of the world.
Soon, one of them, from the International Judo Federation, wrote a tweet in which he expressed the importance of the match and how it ended with a hug between the two. And Saji Muki in the first match,” he said.
The tweet recalled where the retrograde ban on the Iranian Judo Federation began in September 2019, when Saeed Mollavi left his country during that year’s world championships in Tokyo to reveal he had been ordered to defeat the Israeli to face Mugi. . Then, in April last year, the International Federation announced the expulsion of the Iranian Federation for 4 years, due to Tehran’s demand that its athletes refuse to face their Israeli counterparts, for which reason Mollavi played a match yesterday on Saturday. The Israeli player representing Azerbaijan received its citizenship and he also received Mongolian citizenship.
Saeed Moloi, 30, who won the 2018 world championships in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, fled to Germany after losing in the 2019 World Judo Championships 81kg semi-final against Belgium’s Matthias Gass. To avoid a clash, he was awarded the gold medal instead in the final against Israeli Mugi. However, in 2020, Moloi won a silver medal in the men’s 81 kilogram category at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where he represented Mongolia.
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