Coralie Godbout grabs Commonwealth Games judo bronze

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AI GeneratedThis video captures a bronze medal judo match in Glasgow between Coralie Gobu of Canada and Ishrop Narang of India. After a grueling battle that extended into golden score, the Canadian athlete secured the victory through a strategic change of direction, earning the bronze medal in a high-intensity contest.
Will they go cheer because Ishrop Narang well she's 19 years old from Lidihana in India
competing out of the Inspire Institute. Our coach is on her side Vivek Thakur will be backing up
the bronze medalist from the Dhafar Open and there is Lisa Rivers the centre referee coming
into focus and she will be focusing on the bout but also the safety of the fighters safe to say
it's a difficult matchup there's the fans from Canada as well Coralie Gobu the 24 year old from
Saint-Gilles-de-Bachelet she'll be coming up against this young woman here Ishrop Narang
she landed with a bang to get a chance to go for bronze here ranked at 71 but that
belying her status winning a gold medal in the Asian Cup on the way in. I think she's fought well
today I really do I think she's every time coming out there just throwing caution to the wind there
with all-out attack and she'll be trying to do all-out attacking against the 24 year old here
from Charles de Bellechasse from the Kiseki Judo Club originally but of course in the National
Centre bronze medalist in the European Open as they are climatised to be over here and they are
ready Team Canada have had a successful competition so far this one Neil all set up nicely for the
bronze four minutes to decide or you could have golden score as well. Yes all ready to go we'll
see who comes out there and straight away when they grip up there we'll have an indicator of
which way they're going to go as far as is it going to be all-out attack I don't mean just
right or left. It's all-out action here in Glasgow thank you for joining us here for the bronze as we
build up to the big one straight away yeah good attack there straight away there straight away
in for the attack there with the Uchimata didn't quite have the hand under control there but Narang
well she did get a yuko for it so there's the Uchimata there and well it's really the lowest
part of the yuko again isn't it there and yeah I kind of I have a job with that I really I do
so that they're looking for if there was anything of the side hitting the ground but look to just
be the full chest and stomach so no score given no score given it was just face if they get an edge
of the side then they'll give it as a score the face plant but nothing planted on the scoreboard
but she certainly feels confident with it well this is left against right and this is favoring
the lefty at the moment and when you get an opposite stance there the sleeve is the thing
that's difficult to get hold of but um Gobu manages to catch the sleeve of Narang and
watch how she'll pull it in she pulls it in and that means that she's going to have a lot of
success because she's got the way in for the Uchimata the only thing she has to be careful of
is if she misses because Uchimata Sakeshi is what happens if not if you miss completely
then the other person just needs to use the hands to take you over momentum takes you over
for those of you new to Uchimata is just to drive your legs up and through and toss them over
there are two different ways of doing it sometimes it's on rotation
sometimes the leg goes right away at the middle and the support legs on the outside in which case
you need spinning action and then another time the support leg will go right the way up in the
central part and then the sweeping leg goes up as well and then they go up and clean the rafters
that's the theory anyway from the theory to the reality on the mat we're sweeping towards
a couple of minutes gone already Gobu has been carrying the bout but Isrup Narang
quite calm on the defense the coach has just given out some encouragement here
big success yesterday for team Canada former world number one there yes
over from Brazil coaching with Canadians
still get the feeling that she's going to succeed find the way in and she'll succeed
that's going to score this time I thought that that had a slight edge there and it was on the
blind side of Lisa Rivers but I think they might have a little look at that and this time give it
but um it really is on the borderline a good shot there of the photographers as well trying
to catch their moments but the sharp-eyed Lisa Rivers this time gives the Shido
so not given because it wasn't much well they're not good for me I don't like those they
too much on the front
still think it's going to happen here this Uchimata here is being set up all the time
and then if not that a small change of direction might just do it
Isrup Narang just been a little bit more aggressive coming forward she's got that
Shido of course so that could put her in the danger zone against Gobu
everyone knows this Indian team are competitive they really are they come out they fight
like mad and also they have good condition they're well prepared
it really is a good developing team see them out there now in the Grand Prix's and Grand Slams
and terrific to see how many of them are winning matches really good matches out there as well
on the world tour it's listed there is Amuka Kishlashvili of Georgia is one of the
technical advisors coaching out there at that Inspire Institute so they've got that
international experience and that helps with the game plans but what helps now is
that there's 30 seconds to go can Gobu get something on the go yeah I try to turn and
we've seen a couple of these haven't we where the legs are triangled and they
force them onto their back and then go into the hold down that's what she wants
one more stand up they're feeling the pressure now hard day's work at the office to get to this
medal stage and the coaches offer a couple now Shido's against Narang
she uh oh she's gonna get a Shido for that she swept
the inside of the leg there the wrong way Narang
she's sure that they won't look at that because I think she swept the wrong way then
Lisa Rivers had a little look to the technical table as well in accordance what you said that
would have been disqualification it would have yeah for Narang but we're into golden score now
first person with any score in the unlimited time zone that's possibly on there oh just
went the back way out there to get out of that so the strangle was on there's no doubting who is
running this contest but as we've seen before this could go either way that's not going to
be a hold down yet she'll have to come on top of her opponent to make it
a hold down viable hold down to get the count started and as you see clearly Gobu has been
pushing the pace here the whole time the Canadian will she get her reward or can
Narang trying to slide one in there but good evasive footwork from Gobu
all right club judo de Charlesbourg back in Saint Charles in Quebec there's been a strong
effort from the Canadian team just a chance now just to get one little polite one in there from
the referee saying look one more and you're out of here without a bronze she won't be as well you
know and that's because of the hair just simply they won't let them waste time with the hair
it's their job to get it tied up keep it tied up same with the belt around the around the kimono
one more weary stand up here how much do you want the bronze medal who's got anything left in the
tank calls for blue shido from the Indian fans in the stands hopeful and it is given
they know the the sport you know that you know so it was about time so it means that she's just
falling behind got to pick it up getting tired now the pair of them a long day hasn't it they
come in weighing in training in between bouts getting ready rehydrating warming up warming
down back in back out a lot of adrenaline it's tough going yes I mean you roll out of bed next
day oh that was close wasn't it there she latched around the front leg big mistake somebody who has
that front leg if you latched around it you've got to make sure you have
weight pinned because otherwise that can happen and if they've got hold of your sleeve you're
over the top kind of a disaster as you said rolling onto the tatami but as you said roll
out the bed the next day but you come out bumped and bruised but will it be with bronze as we
click towards now the seventh minute of action oh that's it is first change of direction there
did it and that's it all over let's go go boo the big score for the canadian as she came in
with great ambitions she's building towards the los angeles olympic games you can see the
desperation on narang's face she came she defended well the indian but there's only so long neil that
you can just about hang on yeah and she was hanging on hanging on wasn't she there it went
full six minutes six and a half minutes there and go boo the first times that she changed direction
so instead of trying to go to the front just changed it to the back and she got the action
reaction that she wanted so her opponent had good defense to the throw to the front nothing
and heading back now to her coach to take her congratulations coralie gobo
and she lists sketching charcoal portraits as one of her hobbies
and that's a picture perfect moment might not be the medal color she wanted
but the emotion neil you know what this is like now you had to fight to win that medal
yeah she really had to fight didn't she look at that there's the change of direction
and i think it was partly because she was so tired as well and then when she felt her opponent
going for the counter she just carried on the momentum and took the backwards
to get a small score but that was enough to win the bronze let's go go boo in glasgow well done
coralie with the bronze and a corresponding bronze medal as the coach and fighter embrace
who can embrace the big occasion now
