The Daily Populous Sunday July 28th, 2024 morning edition
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budroid on July 27th, 2024 at 15:10 UTC »

> Garrigos defeated the 28-year-old Nagayama via ippon after a chokehold.

> The ruling came despite it appearing that Garrigos maintained the choke after the referee called matte (wait), a point when a judoka is supposed to release a hold.

> Nagayama did not agree with the call to award Garrigos the ippon. He gave a disbelieving shrug when the decision was announced, and refused to shake hands with the Spaniard or leave the mat. He appeared to make the hand gestures used to call for a replay review at one point.

> Nagayama eventually bowed to the mat and stepped down

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/olympics/2024/07/27/ryuju-nagayama-judo-loss/

very hot news. Moderate reporting so far

chahan412 on July 27th, 2024 at 15:13 UTC »

Nagayama and Garrigos were in a chokehold position when the referee made a “Mate” call.

In judo, a “Mate” (Wait) is a call for temporary stop or “reset” of a match; contestants are supposed to release a hold, then the referee gives the “Hajime” (Start) call and the match is resumed.

In this particular moment, while Nagayama already relaxed his strength, Garrigos continued to hold his choke for 3-4 seconds more after the “Mate” call, which deemed a foul play and a dangerous act in judo.

Eventually Garrigos let go. Nagayama got up, straightened his clothes and was ready to resume his match. However, since Nagayama relaxed his defense then appeared to pass out for a few seconds, instead of resuming the match, the referee instantly awarded Garrigos an “ippon”, essentially made him the winner of the match and ended Nagayama’s run for gold medal in Paris 2024.

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Edit: There was opinions that attempted to justify Garrigos’ decision to maintain his choke. However, the majority of r/judo agreed with the above explanation of a “mate” call and that Garrigos was in the wrong for not releasing.

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My hope is that there would be proper explanation from the Olympics committee in the days ahead 🤞🏻

eatcrayons on July 27th, 2024 at 15:43 UTC »

Why did the ref give Garrigos a point?