The fever of the Rio Olympics is on and has drawn the attention of the audience worldwide. Judo is one of the games that is played in Olympics. Natalie Powell, who is the great player from Wales’ strongly, believes prevailing European judo gold in following month would get assortment for the Olympics which is about to be held in Rio.
At the Tbilisi Judo Grand Prix tournament, Powell won bronze medal, but dropped to 9th position in the global rank, one place under automatic assortment. The European Championships are supposed to be held in Kazan, Russia from April 21 to 24, by means of Powell expecting to hit Gemma Gibbons to protect Great Britain’s -78kg position.
As stated by Powell, “That would certainly protect my position if I defeated the Europeans. I don’t feel like there is any grabbing me following that position.”
Gibbons from England won silver medal at the London Olympics that was held in 2012 and Powell defeated her again to triumph the Commonwealth Games gold medal in the year 2014.
Powell, who is 25 year old, is at fourth positions more than 29 year old Gibbons in the global rankings after defeating Madeleine Malonga who is European junior champion from France to seize 3 positions in Tbilisi.
As stated by Powell to BBC Radio Wales, “I am really very happy with the medal as it implies I have got some more points to prerequisite, but it was not the good day of combating for me.”
“In fact, I struggled a lot in most of my combats. I would only come about the ending of a truly focused guidance block as well as moved out direct into the contest.
“I was rather attempted to be straightforward, however I was actually very happy to be capable to pull out an outcome when I was actually and most likely not in the greatest form that I could have been.”
