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Season Goes On, but without Georgians

 

 

At this weekend World Judo Cup will be held in Mongolia. At Ulan Bator tatami national teams of 13 countries will compete. Georgians are not among them. Before ending the international season, the same type tournament will be held four times (September 22-23 Tashkent, October 5-6 Minsk, November 16-17 Appya and December 6-7 Zhezhu). Besides this, Grand Prix will be held twice (October 11-13 Abu Dhabi, November 24-25Kingdao) and once in Tokyo on November 30- December 2, but for Georgian team individual tournaments ended with London Olympic Games.  
“World Sport” has learnt that Georgian wrestlers also might wrestle at Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but only in such case if they finance themselves. Georgian national judo federation has already spent 2012 budget.
 Only two tournaments are planned in federation schedule – September 21-23 in the city of Croatia, Porec, European youth championship and world senior championship which will be hosted by the city of Brazil, Salvador De Bahia, on October 27-28.

Otar Maglakelidze

 

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