Men's Judo 100kg Contest for Gold | Rio 2016 Olympics Replay

Teddy Riner, the "living legend of the sport of Judo" wins gold for over No.2-ranked Hisayoshi Harasawa.
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[rsnn]

For those who don’t understand why the fight is so “boring”, judo is all about getting the correct stance and waiting to catch your opponent off guard. Anyone who’s competed before knows how difficult and tiring it can be trying to get your hands and feet where you want them.

[AviChetriArtwork]

Both these athletes are at the height of the competition, yet, somehow an immovable object and an unstoppable force make such a hilarious comparison to two drunks fighting on the pavement.

[fischerklon]

For the people who do not know what they are doing in the video.

This is judo and in judo you have to try to throw the opponent in such a way that he falls on his back, then you have won. But you can not throw if you have no grip and those in the video just fought for the grip. Riner won because haraswa had two "shidos" (punishments), which he got because he fought so passively that one did not have a chance to throw a punch

[juanrestrepo]

Have zero clue what just happened. It looked like a “stop pulling my jacket “ contest

[yashdiphande]

I had more fun reading comments than watching the game..lol

[milhero]

That is 9 mins 43 sec of my life I won't get back

[david]

this is what i look like when i am drunk and have a scuffle with my mates, i must be a judo expert

[harshitdhoundiyal]

This was the first and the last time I searched a judo match

[Orimthekeyacolite]

The only thing this tells me is that modern judo rules and judging criteria are seriously screwd up

[SpopOnTwitch]

They are so good, that none of them can pull anything on each other so it just looks like they are playing aggressive patty cake lmao.

[veli]

don't ever let non judo players watch this video

[paul]

Starting of video - "oh this must be a good match"

Half video - "sleeping"

[QubitVector]

8:36 Hisayoshi just became my new favorite judoka for that clap

[andrejohansen]

One of the greatest, and one of the most boring Judo players ever.

[Keyakina]

I don't get why people think this is boring? I mean its hard to hard, real pain, real tactic. A real sport.

[IsThisThingOnHello]

When I was a kid I used to always lie to get out of fights by saying I knew Judo...after watching an actual contest here for the first time I realized something. I guess I did know Judo.*

[oogrooq]

And the gold medal for slap and tickle goes to...

[jaimefernandezestevez]

Just an input. This is the problem with Riner, basically.

They are both right handed, which means they want to grip with their left hand the right hand of the opponent, ok, and the other one can go to the chest's flap or the back.

1:53 Riner blocks him with his left hand, stablishing a beam from his left shoulder to Harasawa's chest, Harasawa tries to grip with his lef hand Riner's right arm, at the wrist's sleeve, but not easy task.

1:54 (you could just, from 1.53, set 0.25x speed easier) Once Harasawa did such a hard task like gripping Riner's left sleeve, Riner drops for a second his left hand and Harasawa jumps literally to take with the other hand the back of Riner. Riner blocks again the chest of Harasawa and aborts the attempt.

Now, just few seconds later, Kumi-kata's fight continue but with different result.

2:00 Riner grips with his left hand the right hand of Harasawa, what both are trying to do the whole combat by the way. Riner keeps working, break the Harasawa's grip at 2:04, the same grip that he is also applying to Harasawa, easily, and finally 2:06 he's the only one who got a nice grip at the sleeve, at the wrist. Powerful situation for Riner.

2:07 Harasawa starts to defend, gives some back steps what is not usually a good idea but is in troubles, shakes the hand desperated as Riner did just 2 seconds before, but could not break the grip, and Riner launches the hand to Harasawa's back.

Harasawa is in serious problems so he goes down, what deserves a Shido. And this is the endless story with Riner. So much stronger than the others... but not necessary better.

Thanks if you read everything. The Kumi-kata fight, when you are into it because you practice Judo, is also so appreciated, but even for me is boring not seeing real and scored throws.

[svendemon]

I do judo myself. As an outsider, judo looks like a bit of a grip. But what a force there is.

[Vrey]

what? 0 points but he won a gold medal? somebody should change the rules