Giorgi SARDALASHVILI has arrived on the Poreč OTC in Croatia for some powerful preparation for the Olympic Video games in Paris 2024. It has been precisely one month because the now-21 12 months previous made historical past by turning into the youngest World Champion of Georgia, and after a while to mirror on his achievements, we wish to know extra in regards to the celebrity who’s now ranked #2 on the planet and defeated the Olympic silver medallist, YANG Yung Wei (TPE) for the 2024 World title at -60kg.
Beginning judo at seven years previous, Sardalashvili was guided by his father in to the game, already a very fashionable self-discipline in Georgia, who had achieved Olympic and World success, with legends already having put the Caucasus area on the worldwide map. In truth, it was the help of his dad and mom that he has managed to stay out his dream of turning into a World Champion, with the last word aim of taking Olympic gold as nicely. Although many of those Georgian icons got here within the many years earlier than, Sardalashvili has one significantly vivid reminiscence,
As for idols, I don’t know, however in 2012 I used to be watching the London Olympic Video games and when Lasha Shavdatuashvili received the gold medal for Georgia, I used to be very motivated and doubtless this was one cause I grew to become so devoted.
The Georgian judo staff may be very tightly knit, with the extra senior athletes together with Shavdatuashvili and Vazha MARGVELASHVILI having the ability to cross on pearls of knowledge to their youthful compatriots, nevertheless this new period of athletes have a transparent bond. None extra so than Sardalashvili and the defending -90kg Olympic Champion, Lasha BEKAURI. When asking about their friendship, the -60kg World Champion can boast of their shut ties,
Yeah me and Lasha, we’re the most effective duo within the staff, and we’ve got quite a lot of causes for this. First is that we’re from one aspect in Georgia and likewise we’ve got the identical private coach [Lekso Gviniashvili] and the identical judo membership. When he grew to become Olympic Champion, I didn’t have any medals and after his gold, he at all times helped me at coaching, and now too he teaches me quite a lot of issues, as in life, as a result of he’s a uncommon individual and naturally additionally in judo.
It’s a recurring theme, the power of judo within the Georgian nation, which we see time and time once more within the Tbilisi Grand Slam occasion and within the unbelievable following they’ve around the globe. Plainly irrespective of which nook of the globe we enterprise to, be it on the EJU or IJF tour, there are at all times Georgian flags flying within the stands in help of their athletes.
In Georgia, judo is absolutely nice. Firstly due to our federation and our coaches work very onerous, and secondly, Georgia will not be a giant nation so Georgian followers play a giant function as a result of everybody is aware of our champions. You may be beloved by individuals with this success, they get to know your persona and everybody will know you on the road, everybody desires to point out you respect on your achievements, that’s extra necessary, when you have got quite a lot of cute moments and phrases out of your individuals. We all know that Georgian fighters have solely the aim, to at all times hold our flag on the highest degree, Georgian individuals know this nicely, that’s why judo is the best in Georgia.
It will additionally seem that regardless of his years, Sardalashvili has had good judo values instilled in him with reference to success which can undoubtedly serve him nicely in his lengthy profession forward,
Success has two sides, one aspect is to stay the identical individual you had been and the opposite is to alter, however the different aspect shouldn’t be thought-about by the athletes, so keep inside the identical circumstance you had been in earlier than success.
With the World Championships and Olympic Video games so shut, it may have been straightforward for Sardalashvili to be caught up within the hype and celebrations of turning into the youngest World Champion and permit for time to simply accept this, nevertheless it was transient,
I had just a little time to rejoice and once I noticed individuals’s feelings and smiles on their faces, I used to be very very blissful as a result of I used to be the explanation for this and that is now a really huge motivation for the Olympics. It was such a terrific feeling, however to be trustworthy we didn’t go to any media TV as a result of we tried to maintain this vitality, the main focus is the Olympic Video games and we should hold our minds solely on that. I’ll go down in historical past with World Champion standing however I wish to be within the books as an Olympic Champion as a result of in Georgia, we don’t have a World and Olympic Champion in the identical 12 months, so I need my title to be written in historical past like this.
Successful a World title at 20 years previous, and celebrating a twenty first birthday solely per week later, is one thing fairly exceptional, by any normal. What is evident repeatedly nevertheless, is the maturity and knowledge that Sardalashvili appears to own, probably gained from his skilled coaches in addition to present and former staff mates who’ve at all times acted as information for the subsequent technology.
I’m 21 years previous now, and I need this to be a terrific motivation for my future Georgians, as a result of every part is feasible and I’ve made such an unbelievable aim a actuality, so I shall be proud, if even one Georgian judoka has the thought that he needs to be higher than me.
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Creator: Thea Cowen
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