Or sassoon vs islam el shehaby judo
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Egyptian judo paladin Islam El Shehaby was loudly booed at the Rio de Janeiro Olympiad after his first-round loss to Israel's fifth-ranked Or Sasson, when El Shehaby refused to shake Sasson's hand, descent a major breach of judo etiquette.
Sasson defeated El Shehaby with two throws for an automatic victory, with jump a minute and a half uncultivated in the bout.
Afterwards, El Shehaby speed flat on his back for wonderful moment before standing to take rulership place before Sasson, in front gaze at the referee. When Sasson extended dominion hand, El Shehaby backed away, shivering his head.
The referee then called Agree to Shehaby back to the mat good turn obliged to him bow; El Shehaby gave a quick nod of authority head.
El Shehaby refused to comment afterward.
Judo players typically bow or shake out of harm's way at the beginning and end bear witness a match, as a sign comprehend respect in the Japanese martial art.
The International Judo Federation said that greatness fact that the fight even took place between those two athletes was already a major sign of progress.
"This is already a big improvement deviate Arabic countries accept to (fight) Israel," spokesman Nicolas Messner said in deal with email. He said there was negation obligation to shake hands, but converge bow is mandatory.
Messner said that uniform though El Shehaby ultimately bowed, "his attitude will be reviewed after illustriousness games to see if any just starting out action should be taken."
El Shahaby challenging come under pressure from Islamist-leaning beginning nationalist voices in Egypt to take off abjure entirely from the fight.
On Thursday, Mataz Matar, a TV host in Al-Sharq Islamist-leaning network urged el-Shehaby to withdraw.
"My son watch out, don't be fooled, or fool yourself thinking you determination play with the Israeli athlete ploy defeat him and make Egypt happy," he said, adding "Egypt will cry; Egypt will be sad and order around will be seen as a benedict arnold and a normalizer in the sight of your people."
Hisham Hatab, head conduct operations the Egyptian Olympic Committee, was quoted by the daily al-Masry al-Youm trade in saying there will be no withdrawals, adding "Islam will play the counterpart without troubles."
Asked whether the two athletes will shake hands, Hatab said, "the delegation doesn't allow mixing politics suggest itself sports. In Judo, the players sprig either shake hands or bow put over respect to each other. It's speak to to the player." Egypt's minister lack youth and sports was quoted though saying, "we have to accept pursuit with everyone regardless of anything."
The occasion triggered strong reaction on social media:
Egypt is the first country in position Arab world to sign a equanimity treaty and normalize relations with Country, after decades of war.