Neil Adams
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376 appearances
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
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You think Teddy Renner has been there a long time. He's got another guy here in the final of the Paris tournament. He's got 18,000 people watching him. They're all on Teddy Renner's side. They want him to win. And the Korean's out there on his own with his coach.
Amazing pressure. You know, we interviewed him after this and he said, I've got pressure. You know, people go, well, is he going to do it at the Olympic Games? Can I do it in Paris? He wanted to go to Paris. I mean, really? I mean, the last Olympic Games should have been it, shouldn't it? Should have been the final one. But he's gone, no, I've got to do another four years.
Two penalties are on the board already for the Korean. That Korean is really having a great go.
He's really going after it. You know, it's an amazing effort there from the Korean. And he's getting some last-minute information. I don't know if you've ever seen his coach stood next to him like that, but it's amazing. He's 6'6", and he's about 4'6". He's a real pitch.
So golden score. How does golden score work?
So the golden score. So if it goes without any point on the board from a throw or a hold down or arm lock strangle, then it goes into golden score. So two Shidos on the board apiece. One more mistake now and it's going to be all over.
And that's it. Teddy Renner just manages to turn it. On the Korean. And that went really against the run of play, didn't it?
Because the Korean did better, you know. But, you know, Teddy Renner is a winner.
And he says, right, okay, let's have more cheering.
And I have to say, you know, that even when he loses, you know, he's always graceful. He doesn't like it, but he's graceful.
Well, he's chasing the gold medal. It's going to be in Paris, which is going to be even, you know, more fantastic. You know, he's already the greatest. You said, you know, what has he got to do to be the greatest? He's already the greatest competitor judo's ever known. And that was even with the great Tally. So Tally was amazing as well.
I'm part of the commentating team, but it won't be for IJF because it's independent broadcast.
Do you know, I've got to say that 99%, 99.9% of everybody is so grateful that I've commentated their fights all the way through. They know if they've messed up. So if I say something and I'm never disparaging, really disparaging, you know, but what I will say is, you know, it was a great throw by the other guy or... It was a great match.
And if they made a mistake, so if they walk out, they know that I will say something that will, you know, mean something. So nobody really moans about it. I try and talk the truth if I can.
Only after they want to win by Ippon, you know. And I think that that is the difference is they're the ones that come out there and it's a bit like, you know, when Tyson stepped out there, you knew what you were going to get, you know. And if they went toe-to-toe, if Tyson had somebody going toe-to-toe, somebody was going to get knocked out.
And, you know, we got the same in judo when people go head-to-head and it's an open match. And I often talk about an open match. I say it's an open match. They're both trying to score. Somebody is going to get scored on. Somebody is going to go. And that makes it exciting. That's so great. When they come out and they close up, then that's not an exciting match.
I think that judo-wise, he's got to be one of the greatest because he had such versatility. He had... uh, he could go right and he could go left. He could pick up, he could go to the ground as well. He won a lot of his earlier matches on the ground. Um, I think his, uh, Empathy, you know, and how he presents himself sometimes, he falls down.
And I think that hopefully that should come with tutoring and, you know, how to be a great champion after, you know, it's not just about what you do on the mat, but what you do off the mat as well.
Yeah, I think it's how you present yourself afterwards, how you are with people, how much you can help people. I mean, people, kids, they look up to these great champions because they want to be like them. So the worst thing is when you get somebody that's a bit of an arse and they're not presenting themselves in the right way. So I like to see somebody presenting themselves in the right way.
And I think that it's something that can be taught. It's something that normally comes with a little bit of experience and a little bit of age, you know. And I like to think that I'm a little bit different now than I was when I was 19. Not that I was bad, you know. I just think I was just, you know... I see it often now, you know, just full of beans.
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