This Is How Great Britain’s Ashley Mckenzie Dealt With Judo Olympic Defeat

Great Britain’s Ashley Mckenzie lost his judo match by a single point with 30 seconds to go against Kazakhstan’s Yeldos Smetov. Afterwards he broke down next to a garbage can in the hallway. The agony of defeat...

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Unfortunately with judo you only get one chance,” he told BBC sport, tears running down his face.

“I think it’s just tears of hard work over four years. Putting my family through stuff, my coach Luke, people at the club, it’s just a hard sport.”

“Just thanks for being there really.”

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